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By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has said it plans to “immediately appeal” a judge’s ruling restoring more than $2 billion in federal research funding for Harvard University, signaling that the White House will aggressively continue its efforts to take on elite higher education. While a federal judge offered Harvard, the only

By John Fritze, Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to step into the fray over his emergency tariffs, putting the centerpiece of his economic agenda in the hands of the justices who have mostly backed his sweeping view of executive power, according to a copy of the

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan group of House lawmakers introduced legislation on Wednesday to ban stock trading for members of Congress as pressure has escalated for elected officials to weed out corruption and restore public trust in Congress. House and Senate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have long traded stocks

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’ll soon speak with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as momentum toward ending Russia’s war in Ukraine has largely stalled and left the White House frustrated. “I’m having a conversation with him very shortly, and I’ll know pretty much what we’re going to be doing.

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Devon M. Sayers, CNN Angola, Louisiana (CNN) — The Trump administration is opening a new detention camp within a notorious state prison in Louisiana to house undocumented migrants accused of committing crimes, officials announced Wednesday. The new detention center, called “Camp 57,” will be at the country’s largest maximum-security prison, the Louisiana

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A transgender woman who was challenging Idaho’s ban on trans athletes told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that she is withdrawing her high-profile case, citing intense “negative public scrutiny” because of the litigation and a desire to focus on “academic and personal goals.” Lindsay Hecox, a 24-year-old senior at

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams forcefully denied rumors that he will abandon his reelection campaign if the Trump administration offers him a job. According to two sources familiar with the conversations, aides to President Donald Trump have floated the idea of offering Adams a job in the administration

By Betsy Klein, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday gave Harvard University a landmark victory in its fight against the Trump administration, siding with the Ivy League school in its effort to restore more than $2 billion in federal funding for research frozen by the White House. The decision from US

By Sarah Ferris, Annie Grayer, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers stood outside the US Capitol on Wednesday alongside nearly a dozen women who said they’d been abused by the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein with a poignant message: This is not a hoax. That included a direct plea from

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — The New York attorney general’s office filed civil charges against far-right anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow and his wife for allegedly misusing more than $2 million in assets, including a West Virginia castle, from a charitable foundation they run. Brimelow founded VDARE, whose website has been a platform for white