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By Devan Cole and Jamie Gangel, CNN (CNN) — Five former prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are urging the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington, DC, to open an investigation into President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to be the district’s top prosecutor. The

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration insisted Sunday that it is not required to work with officials in El Salvador to secure the return of a man mistakenly deported to the country, days after the Supreme Court endorsed a federal judge’s directive that US officials must “facilitate” bringing him back stateside. The

By Sarah Ferris and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson has relied on one strategy so far in his chaotic GOP House: Survive and advance. The Louisiana Republican notched another unlikely victory last week, convincing his most recalcitrant conservatives to back a budget blueprint they detested — all without losing the votes of

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has administered lie detector tests to about 50 staffers in recent weeks, including FEMA’s acting administrator and roughly a dozen officials at the disaster relief agency, as part of an intensifying effort to root out what the department alleges are leaks of national security

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Recent Pentagon policies are having direct impacts on students at Defense Department schools around the globe and leaving students and their parents concerned they’re being disadvantaged by attending the schools, multiple students and parents told CNN. Many of the changes stem from President Donald Trump’s executive order banning programs

By Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week made his strongest endorsement yet of the measles vaccine amid an ongoing outbreak that has killed three and infected more than 600 people across the US. But his recent push for people to get vaccinated for measles stands

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal appeals court will allow the Trump administration to further shrink the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but not dismantle it entirely. The Friday evening order from the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals is a partial win for President Donald Trump, who campaigned on abolishing the bureau, which

By Devan Cole and Emily R. Condon, CNN (CNN) — Less than a day after the Supreme Court said the Trump administration had to “facilitate” the return of a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador, the case appeared headed for even murkier waters. During a tense hearing before US District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Phil Mattingly, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is happy to talk about the financial markets when they’re rising, as they were on Wednesday, but when markets were falling Thursday in the aftermath of his remarkable turnabout on tariffs, he punted to the closest adviser around. This time, Treasury

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — The vast Trump litigation, sure to define the Supreme Court over the next four years, has already exposed Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s resistance. She speaks up, wields her pen as a dagger, and doesn’t care if she goes it alone. In a case this week, she

By Eric Bradner, Arit John and Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Four House members from competitive districts — two Republicans and two Democrats — offered a preview of congressional budget battles and the midterm election season to come in a Thursday night CNN town hall. Republicans Mike Lawler of New York and Ryan Mackenzie of

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department will review its case against a former FBI informant who was convicted of lying about the Biden family’s ties to Ukraine, prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday. Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison for falsely telling FBI agents in 2020 that President

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday required President Donald Trump’s administration to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador but stopped short of requiring the government to return him to the United States. The high court said that the administration must try to return Kilmar

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — A heated email exchange between Richard Grenell, the interim head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and one of its artists left the musician “shocked” by what she called a “bizarre” interaction. Grenell seemed “aggressively upset” during the exchange on Tuesday, musician Yasmin Williams told

By Daniel Dale, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump made a series of false claims in televised remarks Thursday at a meeting of his Cabinet, including inaccurate assertions about US relations with China, Japan and the European Union. Here is a fact check of some of his remarks, most of which CNN has debunked

By Clare Foran, CNN (CNN) — The House passed a Republican-led bill Thursday to require documentary proof of US citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, despite the fact that it is already illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. The move is a push by House Republicans that aligns with actions President

By Katie Bo Lillis, Kylie Atwood and Zachary Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has tightly restricted the number of people who have access to President Donald Trump’s highly classified daily intelligence report, five sources familiar with the move told CNN. Administration officials planned from the earliest days of Trump’s second term to cut

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Social Security’s acting commissioner recently said out loud what many beneficiaries are thinking these days — the agency’s telephone customer service can “suck.” “We need to show how bad we suck on the telephone so we can understand the problems,” acting commissioner Leland Dudek told agency executives at an