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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk will pay a visit to the Pentagon on Friday after the tech billionaire received an invitation from Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Defense Department said late Thursday evening. “The Defense Department is excited to welcome Elon Musk to the Pentagon on Friday. He was invited by Secretary

By Tami Luhby, Sunlen Serfaty and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump kicked off the process of dismantling the Department of Education by signing an executive order on Thursday. The move aims to fulfill a longstanding campaign promise and shift more power over education to the states. While the president cannot completely shut

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has agreed to rescind an executive order that suspended security clearances for lawyers and staff at the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, according to a statement he posted to Truth Social on Thursday. The New York-based firm has agreed to dedicate the

CNN By Tami Luhby, Sunlen Serfaty and Kayla Tausche, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump kicked off the process of dismantling the Department of Education by signing an executive order on Thursday. The move aims to fulfill a longstanding campaign promise and shift more power over education to the states. While the president cannot completely

By Kevin Liptak and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to begin dismantling the US Department of Education, seeking to fulfill decades of conservative ambition to get rid of the agency, but raising new questions for the country’s millions of public schools, student-loan holders and parents. No

CNN By Paula Reid and Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Despite the White House’s repeated attacks on federal Judge James Boasberg, the Trump administration remains confident it will prevail in ongoing litigation about the president’s use of executive power. Even before President Donald Trump retook office, his advisers expected that his executive orders and other

CNN By Shania Shelton and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Shouts of “January 6” and “tax the rich” flooded a town hall in Laramie, Wyoming, on Wednesday, where GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman faced a hostile crowd as she attempted to drown out the noise and answer questions – the latest such Washington lawmaker to be

By Shania Shelton and Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Shouts of “January 6” and “tax the rich” flooded a town hall in Laramie, Wyoming, on Wednesday, where GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman faced a hostile crowd as she attempted to drown out the noise and answer questions – the latest such Washington lawmaker to be grilled

CNN By Eric Bradner, Annie Grayer and Brian Todd, CNN Downers Grove, Illinois (CNN) — Democratic lawmakers have faced eruptions of anger at town hall meetings across the country this week, as constituents have coupled their fury over President Donald Trump’s actions with deep frustration over what they see as a feckless Democratic response. Arizona

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court grappled Monday with a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts during an oral argument in which several of the court’s conservatives questioned whether the state had violated the Constitution because of its focus on race. Several of those justices signaled they are prepared

By Paula Reid and Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Despite the White House’s repeated attacks on federal Judge James Boasberg, the Trump administration remains confident it will prevail in ongoing litigation about the president’s use of executive power. Even before President Donald Trump retook office, his advisers expected that his executive orders and other policy

By Kaanita Iyer, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, Aishwarya S Iyer and Chris Boyette, CNN A federal judge on Thursday ruled the Trump administration could not deport Georgetown fellow Badar Khan Suri, who the university said was detained by the Department of Homeland Security as the Trump administration continues its immigration clampdown. US District Judge Patricia Tolliver

By Jeff Zeleny and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on Thursday to start the process of dismantling the Department of Education, two administration officials told CNN, a move that will begin fulfilling a major campaign promise. The president is set to make the move in

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — When schools in Kentucky closed for several days last month due to severe flooding, students suddenly began showing up at the Bullitt County Public Library. They had come for the internet. To pay for those high-speed connections that some students lacked at home, the county library – like

By Jennifer Hansler and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Wednesday declined to remove the Department of Government Efficiency from the US Institute of Peace building or reinstate fired board members while a legal challenge to DOGE’s takeover of the independent organization plays out. While District Judge Beryl Howell declined to

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Social Security Administration will require people filing benefit applications who cannot prove their identities online to visit a field office to complete the claim in person in an effort to combat fraud, the agency announced Tuesday. This, along with another new rule barring beneficiaries from changing their bank

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A sharply divided Supreme Court declined Tuesday to halt the execution of a death row inmate in Louisiana who argued that the use of nitrogen gas would interfere with his Buddhist beliefs – an argument that drew interest from one of the court’s conservatives. Jessie Hoffman claimed that the

By Jeremy Herb, Kevin Liptak and Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Tuesday released thousands of records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that it said had previously been classified. Many of the files related to the JFK assassination have already been disclosed, including a tranche of 13,000

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members, dealing a major defeat to a controversial policy the president resurrected from his first term. In a scathing ruling, US District Judge Ana Reyes said the administration cannot enforce the ban — which was set

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire Elon Musk appears to have overstepped his executive branch authority with his Department of Government Efficiency, a federal judge said Tuesday as he indefinitely blocked the dismantling of USAID. “The court finds that Defendants’ unilateral actions to shut down USAID likely violated the United States Constitution,” said Judge

By Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer says he isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. “I should be the leader,” he said defiantly during a morning appearance on “The View.” Even as the New Yorker draws the wrath of his party for clearing a path for President Donald Trump’s government funding bill

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Chief Justice John Roberts pushed back on President Donald Trump’s escalating rhetoric against the federal judiciary on Tuesday in a highly unusual statement that appeared to be aimed at the president’s call to impeach judges who rule against him. “For more than two centuries, it has been established

CNN By Alayna Treene, Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s lengthy phone call Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin ended with an agreement to temporarily halt attacks on energy and infrastructure targets, the White House and Kremlin both said, as a broader ceasefire arrangement is worked out