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CNN, POOL, HOUSE TV By David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — The decidedly unsexy bond market is usually pretty quiet. But when they want to, bond investors can send a loud, clear message to Washington. They did just that Wednesday and Thursday. The 20-year bond auction conducted by the US Treasury on Wednesday afternoon was unusually

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — For 60 years, Boston’s Museum of African American History has transported people to the past, letting visitors to a 200-year-old meeting house see where abolitionists like Frederick Douglass spoke and walk through halls where young Black soldiers once rallied to fight in the Civil

KVVU By John King, CNN Allentown, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Todd Harder voted for Donald Trump and knows firsthand his community would benefit if the president can deliver on his promise of a quick American manufacturing renaissance. But Harder doesn’t believe he will ever see it. The early evidence, Harder said, is that the tariffs and

By Sarah Ferris, Haley Talbot, Veronica Stracqualursi, Lauren Fox, Jeff Zeleny and Alayna Treene, CNN Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early Thursday morning, quashing a conservative rebellion and driving a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely

WJLA, CNN By Karina Tsui, Teele Rebane, Isaac Yee, Jessie Yeung, Lex Harvey, Diego Mendoza Diaz, Alex Marquardt, Gabe Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot and killed by a gunman who later yelled “Free Palestine!” while being arrested in Washington, DC, Wednesday night, authorities said. The slain staffers,

By Karina Tsui, Teele Rebane, Isaac Yee, Jessie Yeung, Lex Harvey, Diego Mendoza Diaz, Alex Marquardt, Gabe Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Two Israeli Embassy staff members were shot and killed by a gunman who later yelled “Free Palestine!” while being arrested in Washington, DC, Wednesday night, authorities said. The slain staffers, who the

By Sarah Ferris and Haley Talbot, CNN (CNN) — A key House committee voted late Wednesday evening to advance President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda to the House floor after marathon proceedings that lasted almost 22 hours, setting up a high-stakes vote in the chamber and a showdown between warring wings of the Republican conference. The

By Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Republican-led Senate on Thursday overturned several key Biden-era waivers allowing California to set its own vehicle emissions, a major blow to that state’s effort to regulate pollution from cars and trucks that could have broad environmental impacts for the rest of the country.

By Katelyn Polantz, Priscilla Alvarez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration “unquestionably” violated a court order when it tried to transfer detainees to war-torn South Sudan without a meaningful opportunity to contest their removal to a place where they might face torture, a federal judge said Wednesday. Eight detainees of various nationalities

By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — Moments before President Donald Trump escorted his South African counterpart into the Oval Office on Wednesday, White House aides could be seen wheeling two large-screen televisions down the driveway and into the West Wing. Little could have prepared President Cyril Ramaphosa for what he was about

By Natasha Bertrand and Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosted a Christian prayer service on Wednesday at the Pentagon for employees that included a sermon by his hometown pastor who said President Donald Trump had been “sovereignly appointed.” The service, which Hegseth told the audience would be a monthly event

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — House GOP leaders are barreling ahead with a vote on President Donald Trump’s agenda in the coming hours Wednesday, after Trump privately implored key holdouts not to derail the major tax and spending cuts package. The president had summoned members of a key wing

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Donald Trump Jr. teased a future run for the presidency during an appearance at the Qatar Economic Forum on Wednesday, saying “that calling is there” when asked if he would “consider picking up the reins” and “run for office” when his father, President Donald Trump, leaves the White House.

By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is moving to dismiss federal oversight agreements in Louisville and Minneapolis reached following the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor and police killing of George Floyd, and dropping investigations into several major US police departments. The move, announced

CNN By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, Alayna Treene, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered his most forceful appeal yet to House Republicans to line up behind his massive domestic policy bill, but it’s still not enough to guarantee the votes for Speaker Mike Johnson. The president’s emphatic,

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Justice charged Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver with assaulting federal law enforcement during a chaotic melee that erupted outside of an ICE detention facility in her home state of New Jersey, acting US Attorney Alina Habba said Monday. Prosecutors will, however, drop the

By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, Alayna Treene, Veronica Stracqualursi and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered his most forceful appeal yet to House Republicans to line up behind his massive domestic policy bill, but it’s still not enough to guarantee the votes for Speaker Mike Johnson. The president’s emphatic, 90-minute

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver said Tuesday that the federal assault charges filed against her a day earlier related to a chaotic melee outside an Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility are “absurd.” “I think the charges are absurd. You know, it’s ridiculous. I was there to do my job,

By Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — In the final two years of his presidency, Joe Biden had private moments where he could not recall the names of top aides, had an increasingly limited private schedule, was prone to incoherence and losing his train of thought, and was hidden from the public eye to shield the