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Representative Cory Mills attends a House Task Force hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington

Bipartisan push to reform censure process emerges in Congress after flurry of complaints brought against lawmakers

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are now pushing to make the censure process more difficult after the House weighed three separate complaints against sitting members this week. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday he is “very interested in raising the threshold” of votes to censure a member,

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio

State Department to focus on freedom of speech in next human rights report, likely targeting European governments

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department will focus on “natural rights” like freedom of speech in its next human rights report, a senior State Department official said Thursday, as the Trump administration targets traditional European allies for alleged freedom of speech restrictions. The move further institutionalizes changes seen in the latest

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Offshore oil and gas platform Esther is seen from Seal Beach

Trump opens parts of Florida, California waters up to offshore oil drilling, breaking decades of precedent

By Ella Nilsen, Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is proposing to open federal waters off the entire coastline of California to drilling, as well as an area off the coast of Florida. Neither state’s waters have been open to new drilling for decades. President Donald Trump’s Interior Department released a five-year offshore

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A photo of late actor Chadwick Boseman is set on an easel ahead of the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles on Thursday.

Chadwick Boseman honored with posthumous star on Hollywood Walk of Fame: ‘He was an incredible leader’

By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Friends, family and fans gathered Thursday to honor the late Chadwick Boseman receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Thursday was declared “Chadwick Boseman Day” in Hollywood, and his “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” costar Violas Davis, his “Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler and

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Israeli settlers set fire to multiple cars in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank on Thursday.

Israeli settlers torch scrapyard in West Bank arson attack as Netanyahu calls meeting on rising extremist violence

By Zeena Saifi, Dana Karni, Oren Liebermann, CNN Jerusalem (CNN) — Israeli settlers set fire to cars in the latest arson in the occupied West Bank as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a security meeting on settler violence. According to witnesses and WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, settlers torched a vehicle scrapyard in

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The Washington Monument is visible as armed members of the National Guard patrol the National Mall on August 27 in Washington

Judge halts Trump’s deployment of national guard in Washington, DC

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump and the Defense Department illegally deployed the National Guard in Washington, DC, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Washington, DC’s attorney general’s office had sued the Trump administration in early September over the National Guard’s deployment in the city, which came as Trump surged federal law enforcement

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Top Border Patrol official Greg Bovino looks on during an immigration raid in Charlotte

Charlotte officials say Border Patrol operation has ended, but DHS insists immigration enforcement will continue

By Dianne Gallagher, Priscilla Alvarez, Taylor Romine, Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Mecklenburg County sheriff announced federal officials told him the Customs and Border Protection operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, is over, but a top Department of Homeland Security official said immigration enforcement will continue. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden issued a statement Thursday

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Still images from an airport surveillance video showing the left engine and left pylon separation from the left wing.

NTSB releases frame-by-frame images of engine separating during deadly UPS crash in Louisville

By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — A critical mount that kept the left engine attached to the UPS flight that crashed in Louisville earlier this month failed only moments after the doomed flight broke ground, according to a new report from the National Transportation Safety Board The report includes stunning frame-by-frame photos of

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Marimar Martinez and Ian Santos Ruiz appear in federal court on October 6.

Federal judge dismisses charges against Chicago woman shot after being accused of ramming car at law enforcement vehicle

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, Bill Kirkos, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed federal charges against a woman shot by a Customs and Border Protection agent in Chicago after allegedly ramming into his car. The ruling from US District Judge Georgia Alexakis came hours after prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the charges

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach

Trump accuses Democratic lawmakers who urged military to disobey illegal orders of ‘seditious behavior, punishable by death’

By Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by the administration, calling it “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” “It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these

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Israeli soldiers speak with a Palestinian woman as she leaves her home for safety during a raid by the army in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on February 11.

Israel’s forced expulsion of Palestinians from West Bank refugee camps amounts to war crimes, HRW alleges

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged. According to a 105-page report released by the non-profit organization, 32,000 Palestinians were expelled by

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One on his way to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on November 14.

Trump renews effort to block states from regulating AI, raising alarms about safety

By Clare Duffy, CNN New York (CNN) — President Donald Trump has drafted an executive order that would block states from enforcing regulations around artificial intelligence, renewing an AI deregulation push that’s raising concerns among tech safety advocates and state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The draft order directs the US attorney general

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A view of a ruined and abandoned town in the Donetsk region

New Trump peace proposal for Ukraine could require land concessions and military reduction, source says

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — A new peace proposal for Ukraine drafted by the Trump administration could envision the country ceding the eastern Donbas region and limiting the size of its military in exchange for security guarantees from the United States, according to a Western official familiar with the ideas under discussion. US officials

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