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By Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — Federal investigators seized multiple documents labeled “secret,” “confidential,” and “classified,” including some about weapons of mass destruction, during the late August search of the office of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton, according to newly released court records that are part of an investigation into whether

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A team of suspected Chinese hackers has infiltrated US software developers and law firms in a sophisticated campaign to collect intelligence that could help Beijing in its ongoing trade fight with Washington, Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant said Wednesday. The hackers have been rampant in recent weeks, hitting the cloud-computing

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s abrupt shift on the war in Ukraine this week came amid fresh frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was intended to apply more pressure on Moscow to come to the negotiating table, according to US officials. By publicly declaring Ukraine could regain all its territory

By Gabe Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has launched an internal investigation into FEMA employees who signed a public letter to Congress warning that the administration’s overhaul of the disaster relief agency is undermining emergency response and endangering the public. As part of the probe, the agency has ordered the employees — who

By Betsy Klein, CNN New York (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump hosted world leaders’ spouses on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, announcing the launch of a new coalition on children’s well-being and artificial intelligence safety that she said she hoped they would join. For one of her counterparts, Trump’s

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Days after announcing it was ending the government’s annual food insecurity report, the US Department of Agriculture placed about a dozen researchers, supervisors and administrators on paid administrative leave on Monday. The employees, who include top officials with the USDA’s Economic Research Service, which produces the longstanding report, were

CNN By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken. “I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless,” he said, sounding less than happy. “That way you

By Kevin Liptak, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine could restore its borders from before Russia’s invasion and that he believes NATO member countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace, escalating his rhetoric against the Kremlin as its war in Ukraine drags on. Taken together,

By Paula Reid, Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle, is leaving the Justice Department, the attorney general and her deputy confirmed in statements provided to CNN on Tuesday. Bondi said Mizelle served the department “with professionalism, sound judgement, and dedication” and “played a

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — It was perhaps an ominous sign when the first thing President Donald Trump said in his United Nations General Assembly speech Tuesday was that his teleprompter was broken. “I feel very happy to be up here with you nevertheless,” he said, sounding less than happy. “That way you speak

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a Louisiana doctor who chairs the Senate health committee, is calling on the Department of Health and Human Services to release any evidence tying acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism, noting that “the preponderance of evidence shows that this is not the case.” “I understand

By Kit Maher, Ellis Kim, Sarah Ferris, Ted Barrett, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump scrapped a White House meeting with top congressional Democrats later this week, as the threat of a government shutdown looms over Washington. “After reviewing the details of the unserious and ridiculous demands being made by the Minority Radical

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations’ rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter. Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and open derision by his

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — When President Donald Trump brought his trademark braggadocio to the United Nations’ rostrum in his first term, he was met with an unfamiliar-for-him response from the delegates: mocking laughter. Seven years later, few could imagine the scene repeating itself. Once the object of skepticism and

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt offered a forceful defense of border czar Tom Homan in the wake of reports that he accepted a bag of cash from undercover FBI agents, insisting on Monday that he “did absolutely nothing wrong.” “The president stands by Tom Homan 100% because he

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — A collection of elected Republicans and prominent conservatives are stepping in to serve as featured guests on the national college tour that slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was embarked on before his assassination at an event in Utah earlier this month. The list of prominent speakers includes Virginia Gov.

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a rush appeal that will decide whether President Donald Trump acted lawfully as he has wrested control of independent federal agencies by firing the board members who led them. By granting the case involving the Federal Trade Commission, the high court said

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an order Monday designating the anti-fascism movement Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and directing federal agencies to take action against it. The order accuses Antifa of organizing political violence — including riots, attacks on law enforcement and doxing — with the goal of overthrowing

CNN By Isabelle D’Antonio, CNN (CNN) — Tom Homan, now the president’s border czar, was recorded last year accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash by undercover FBI agents in an investigation the Trump Justice Department later closed, The New York Times reported Saturday. The September 2024 payment arose from a probe that was not

By David Wright, Eva McKend, CNN (CNN) — Exactly two months after President Donald Trump signed his policy megabill in a July 4 celebration at the White House, a Virginia health care company blamed the law for the closure of three rural clinics serving communities along the Blue Ridge Mountains. The closures, Augusta Medical Group

CNN By Eric Bradner, Andrew Seger, Nicky Robertson, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Farmers across the country are issuing increasingly urgent warnings that they’ll face grim consequences if they don’t get help selling this year’s bumper crop that many have begun harvesting. Trade deals many had hoped would quickly emerge after President Donald Trump slapped

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Friday to withdraw deportation protections that had been extended to some 300,000 Venezuelans living in the United States – and it accused a lower court of engaging in a “needless affront” by ruling otherwise. The case involves decision earlier this year

By Alejandra Jaramillo, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what the administration says is overuse of the program. “We need workers. We need great workers, and this pretty much ensures that that’s what’s

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — GOP Sen. Ted Cruz on Friday denounced Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr’s threats to pull ABC’s broadcast license as “unbelievably dangerous” and compared some of his rhetoric to “mafioso” tactics. In an episode of his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” released on Friday, the Texas Republican said he

By Holmes Lybrand, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — A memorial service Thursday for William Webster, former FBI and CIA director, served as something of a wake for an era that seems ever more distant in the age of Donald Trump. He was eulogized by former FBI Director Christopher Wray as exemplifying “what it meant to

By Devan Cole, John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let it limit passport sex markers for transgender and nonbinary individuals, its latest effort to get the justices to intervene in a fight over restrictive policies targeting LGBTQ+ Americans. Just after taking office in January, President Donald

By Sarah Ferris, Morgan Rimmer, Ted Barrett, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday corralled his oft-fractured House conference to pass a Republican plan to fund the government through November 21, as Congress scrambles to avert a looming shutdown. The 217-212 vote to advance the seven-week stopgap bill now amplifies pressure on Senate Democrats

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The former US attorney who negotiated a controversial 2008 plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein defended that agreement in a closed-door meeting with House investigators Friday, according to Democrats in the room. “It’s very clear that Alex Acosta ran a deeply flawed investigation of the Epstein case,” Rep. Robert Garcia,

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Former White House chief of staff Jeff Zients testified behind closed doors at length about former President Joe Biden’s aging throughout the course of his term, including how he pushed Biden’s doctor to conduct a full medical workup, according to a person familiar with the transcribed interview. Zients told

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate confirmed 48 of President Donald Trump’s nominees in one sweeping vote on Thursday, marking the first bloc confirmed after Republicans voted to change Senate rules to speed up the consideration of nominees. The nominees confirmed included Kimberly Guilfoyle to be the Ambassador to Greece, Christine Toretti to