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By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Washington (CNN) — US District Judge James Boasberg said Thursday that he is looking at whether “probable cause” exists to hold Trump administration officials in contempt for violating his orders halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. The comments from Boasberg

By Gabe Cohen and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Homeland Security officials are discussing using FEMA funds, intended to provide housing and other aid to migrants, for immigration enforcement, according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. The so-called Shelter and Services Program was the target of Republican attacks during the 2024 presidential campaign and

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump made a series of false claims about tariffs and trade – most of which he has made before – in the Wednesday speech in which he announced a sweeping set of global tariffs. Here is a fact check of some of Trump’s remarks. Canada’s dairy tariffs

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday picked Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for multiple Trump aides over the years and for defendants accused of crimes in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, to be the No. 3 official at the Justice Department. Woodward most recently has served as

By Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate Republicans unveiled their new budget blueprint Wednesday afternoon, paving the way for the Senate and House to finally inch closer to advancing President Donald Trump’s immigration and tax agenda. The blueprint is just the first step in a long and arduous process expected to take months, but if

By Jeremy Herb, Fredreka Schouten, Steve Contorno, Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer and Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Tuesday’s decisive victory for the Democratic-backed candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race offered a warning for Republicans that Elon Musk’s unfavorability with voters may outweigh the millions he’s pledged to spend for Republicans in next year’s midterms.

By Morgan Rimmer and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — Four Senate Republicans joined with Democrats on Wednesday to deliver a rare bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump over trade policy. The Senate adopted a resolution by a vote of 51 to 48 aimed at blocking the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on Canadian imports. The four

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The judge overseeing the corruption case against Eric Adams has dismissed the charges against the New York City mayor, and in a split with the Trump Justice Department, ordered that the charges cannot be brought again. Judge Dale Ho said his hands were essentially tied

By Alex Marquardt, CNN (CNN) — In the two months since Donald Trump became president, the Taliban has ratcheted up its efforts to ingratiate itself with the Trump administration, appearing to sense an opening to re-establish official ties and a presence in the US, according to people familiar with the American conversations with the group,

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday backed a series of decisions by the US Food and Drug Administration to deny market access for flavored vaping products in a rare win for government regulators that may limit access to those products across the nation, though the justices sent the case back

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday is debating whether patients may sue states that cut Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, teeing up a dispute over preventive healthcare that has been drawn into the fraught national fight over abortion access. A ruling from the conservative Supreme Court, expected by the end

By Tami Luhby and Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — At least six federal agencies are once again giving their employees the option to resign but be paid through the end of September, according to internal emails obtained by CNN and agency spokespeople. The employees don’t have long to make a decision either. Depending on the

By Arlette Saenz and Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Democratic-backed candidate Susan Crawford has won Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, maintaining the liberal majority on the court in a key battleground state less than three months into President Donald Trump’s second term. Crawford, a liberal circuit court judge in Dane County, will beat the conservative candidate

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — A new lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses tech billionaire Elon Musk and his super PAC of failing to pay canvassers who helped his pro-Trump political operation in 2024. During the final stretch of the 2024 campaign, Musk and his political group, America PAC, offered $100 to registered voters in

By Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — Republicans will hold onto two seats in their narrow House majority as former Florida state Sen. Randy Fine will win the special election for an open US House seat in Florida’s 6th Congressional District and Republican Jimmy Patronis will win Florida’s 1st Congressional District. Fine will replace national security

CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 hours after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit Myanmar, search teams rescued a survivor from the rubble in Naypyidaw. As the tired and disheveled man was extricated from the broken slabs of concrete, he and the rescuers received a round of applause. Here’s what else you

CNN By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday abruptly halted all work in the House after suffering a major defeat over his push to block remote voting in Congress for new parents. Nine of his own GOP members — led by new mom, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — rebelled against his

By Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Senior Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in Washington and is expected to meet top Trump official Steve Witkoff on Wednesday for talks on strengthening relations between the two countries as they seek to end the war in Ukraine, according to two sources familiar

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday abruptly halted all work in the House after suffering a major defeat over his push to block remote voting in Congress for new parents. Nine of his own GOP members — led by new mom, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna — rebelled against his leadership

CNN By Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador “because of an administrative error” and argued it could not return him because he’s now in Salvadoran custody. The filing stems from a lawsuit over the

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle and Dakin Andone, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday the Justice Department will seek the death penalty for accused CEO killer Luigi Mangione. Bondi said she will direct the interim US attorney for the Southern District of New York, Matthew Podolsky, to seek the death penalty