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By Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Betsy Klein, Kylie Atwood and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump opposed an Israeli plan to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to two sources, amid ongoing waves of tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran which the US president is making publicly and privately clear he

CNN By Shania Shelton and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump praised the United States Army as the “greatest, fiercest and bravest fighting force” at the conclusion of a grand display of military might in the nation’s capital Saturday as the Army celebrated its 250th birthday with a parade. “Time and again, America’s

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A group of roughly 60 individuals were arrested outside the US Capitol on Friday evening after breaching a police line of bike racks and moving toward steps leading to the Capitol Rotunda, according to the Capitol Police. The group, made up of veterans and military family members, planned a

By Lauren Chadwick, CNN (CNN) — The director of the National Portrait Gallery has resigned from her post, according to a memo sent to Smithsonian employees and obtained by CNN. Kim Sajet’s departure from the gallery comes just two weeks after President Donald Trump called for her employment to be terminated in a post on

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national mistakenly deported from the US three months ago, pleaded not guilty Friday to federal human smuggling charges. But at the end of an all-day hearing, a federal magistrate judge didn’t decide whether Abrego Garcia’s alleged smuggling of undocumented immigrants through Tennessee

By Dan Berman, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court on Friday rejected another attempt by President Donald Trump to review a $5 million judgment against him for sexually abusing and then defaming E. Jean Carroll. A three-judge panel from the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Trump in December. Trump asked the

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court late Thursday paused a ruling that required President Donald Trump to return control of members of California’s National Guard to the state. Senior US District Judge Charles Breyer had ruled that Trump unlawfully federalized thousands of members of California’s National Guard and must return control

By Eric Bradner and David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani bitterly clashed over age and experience Thursday in the final debate before New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, as Cuomo warned that the progressive state assemblyman is unprepared for the job and Mamdani hammered the former governor over scandals during his

By Betsy Klein, Kylie Atwood, Alejandra Jaramillo, Rob Picheta and Dana Bash, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump told CNN that the United States “of course” supports Israel and called the strikes on Iran overnight “a very successful attack” in a brief phone call. “Iran should have listened to me when I said — you

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — US Sen. Alex Padilla of California said he had been attempting to ask a question when he was forcefully removed from a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles Thursday. “I was there peacefully. At one point I had a question, and

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security on Thursday will tell hundreds of thousands of migrants that their permission to live and work in the United States had been revoked and they should leave the country, according to a copy of the notice obtained by CNN. The termination notice will be

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously sided with a Minnesota family that has been battling their local school district over the education of their daughter in a decision that could make it easier for other parents of disabled children to seek damages from schools under federal disability laws. The

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A family whose home was mistakenly raided in the middle of the night by the FBI eight years ago will be permitted to continue their damages lawsuit after the Supreme Court on Thursday sent their case back to a federal appeals court for additional review. The outcome represents a

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — Sen. Rand Paul is “of course” invited to the annual congressional picnic Thursday, President Donald Trump said after a dispute with the Kentucky Republican over his invite to the long-held bipartisan gathering. “Of course Senator Rand Paul and his beautiful wife and family are invited to the BIG White

CNN By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump drew charged reactions of both admiration and ire at the Kennedy Center’s opening night of “Les Misérables” – with a greeting of cheers and boos, drama at intermission and drag queens in the audience. When the lights came on after the end of the first

By Shania Shelton and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a set of resolutions Thursday to reverse California’s 2035 ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars, a White House official said. California GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley addressed the move earlier this week, writing on X that Trump would

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood and Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The US State and Defense departments on Wednesday made efforts to arrange the departure of non-essential personnel from locations around the Middle East, according to US officials and sources familiar with the efforts. It’s not clear what is causing the sudden change in posture,

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has broad authority to revoke protected land designated as national monuments by past presidents, the Justice Department said in a new legal opinion. The May 27 legal opinion from the Justice Department found that presidents can move broadly to cancel national monuments, challenging a 1938 determination