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By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — As President Donald Trump prepared to leave the G7 summit a day early amid an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, he dialed up his go-to national security confidant Sen. Lindsey Graham — who’s also one of the GOP’s most vocal war hawks. In that phone call, Graham said

CNN By David Wright, Arlette Saenz and Molly English, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Mike Lee on Tuesday deleted a series of inflammatory social media posts from over the weekend on the deadly attacks in Minnesota, prompting a confrontation with one of the state’s Democratic US senators. Lee provoked controversy when he made a series

CNN By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Kylie Atwood and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly warm to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and souring on the idea of a diplomatic solution to end Tehran’s escalating conflict with Israel, two officials familiar with the ongoing

By Alayna Treene, Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Kylie Atwood and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is growing increasingly warm to using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities and souring on the idea of a diplomatic solution to end Tehran’s escalating conflict with Israel, two officials familiar with the ongoing discussions

By Devan Cole and John Fritze, CNN Washington (CNN) — Three Supreme Court justices on Tuesday reported hefty earnings from books they’ve recently published, a glimpse into the lucrative world of authorship that provides members of the bench with additional income. Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman to sit on the high

By Annie Grayer and Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota has decided to sleep with a loaded pistol near his nightstand after the deadly shootings targeting Minnesota state lawmakers and their families over the weekend. Democratic Rep. Mark Pocan didn’t know he was potentially putting himself at risk by

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday morning he doesn’t want to call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the shooting of two state Democratic lawmakers and their spouses in his state over the weekend. “I don’t want to call him,” Trump told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Air Force One, referring to

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security reversed course on guidance limiting immigration raids at farms, hotels, and restaurants on Monday, according to a source familiar with the discussions — the latest example of whiplash for an agency tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda. During a morning

By Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — This fall’s gubernatorial race in Virginia will make history no matter who wins: Either Democrat Abigail Spanberger or Republican Winsome Earle-Sears will become the state’s first elected female governor. For now, that seems to be an afterthought. Spanberger and Earle-Sears, who are each unopposed in Tuesday’s primaries ahead of

By Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — When Israel launched its series of strikes against Iran last week, it also issued a number of dire warnings about the country’s nuclear program, suggesting Iran was fast approaching a point of no return in its quest to obtain nuclear weapons and that the strikes

CNN By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN Calgary, Alberta (CNN) — President Donald Trump signaled Monday that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran was intensifying rapidly, announcing he would return to Washington a day early from the Group of 7 summit in Canada to monitor developments after issuing an ominous warning to Iranians

By Tami Luhby, Ella Nilsen, Manu Raju and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — The GOP-led Senate Finance Committee on Monday released its proposal for President Donald Trump’s agenda bill that calls for enacting sweeping cuts to Medicaid and preventing a multi-trillion dollar tax hike on Americans. The committee would maintain many of the provisions contained

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — While visiting Canada on Monday for a Group of 7 summit, President Donald Trump repeated one of his many false claims about Canada – again wrongly blaming former Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for getting Russia booted out of the group formerly known as the Group of 8. Speaking

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Washington (CNN) — The American Bar Association sued the Trump administration Monday, saying the president’s aggressive crackdown on large law firms aligned against him has chilled lawyers’ ability to litigate cases, especially pro bono legal work on hot-button issues like immigration. The lawsuit, filed in Washington, DC, by

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — The Office of Special Counsel has for nearly 50 years been the US government’s one-stop shop for whistleblowers and alleged ethics violations, a federal watchdog created after Watergate with the lofty mandate “to end government and political corruption.” Now it appears to be facing its biggest test yet,

By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN Calgary, Alberta (CNN) — President Donald Trump signaled Monday that the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran was intensifying rapidly, announcing he would return to Washington a day early from the Group of 7 summit in Canada to monitor developments after issuing an ominous warning to Iranians to

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a First Amendment appeal from a faith-based nonprofit that runs five “crisis pregnancy centers” in New Jersey and that is fighting a subpoena from the state’s Democratic attorney general. First Choice Women’s Resource Centers had urged the conservative court to throw

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Two union leaders and longtime Democratic National Committee members have resigned from the national party, marking the latest internal dispute of chairman Ken Martin’s tenure. The departures of American Federation of Teachers leader Randi Weingarten and Lee Saunders, the president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a copyright suit against pop star Ed Sheeran filed by a company that alleged his smash single “Thinking Out Loud” copied the classic Marvin Gaye song “Let’s Get It On.” Sheeran has been fighting – and successfully defending against – different

CNN, GETTY IMAGES, 01:14 – 01:32, TWITTER, STEFFEN SEIBERT, GERMAN FEDERAL PRESS OFFICE, Twitter/Steffen Seibert/German Federal Press Office By Kevin Liptak, CNN Calgary, Alberta (CNN) — It’s a tableau no world leader — except perhaps President Donald Trump — wants to repeat. Convening in the Canadian Rockies for this week’s Group of 7 summit, presidents

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