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By Kit Maher, Betsy Klein, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said this week that he doesn’t think there will be peace with Iran in a sit-down interview that comes a little over a month before Republicans face a key test on Americans’ faith in their leadership. The interview with TIME Magazine, which

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to review President Donald Trump’s policy of imposing mandatory detention without bond hearings for people who entered the country illegally, taking up one of the administration’s most aggressive and controversial moves to crack down on immigration. By granting an appeal on the Immigrations and

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Suspected Chinese hackers impersonated an Anthropic employee and ex-US officials in an espionage campaign aimed at gaining insights into American AI developments, a US cybersecurity firm said Thursday. The hackers targeted the email accounts of experts in AI export controls and the military applications of AI, among other topics,

By Ethan Cohen, Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Election Day is still a month away, but more than 700,000 Americans have already voted across at least 30 states. There are signs emerging of the advantage Democrats have in motivating their voters – a trend that’s played out in polling all summer long. In several states

By Sarah Ferris, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Bernie Sanders has spent the last decade growing his political movement by muscling left-wing hopefuls through Democrat-on-Democrat primary fights across the country. Now for the first time, Sanders’ handpicked candidates are battling it out in some of the toughest – and most expensive – races of the

CNN By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Xavier Becerra, the Democratic favorite in California’s race for governor, sought to tie his Republican opponent Steve Hilton to the policies of President Donald Trump as the two debated Wednesday night on CNN. “You’re going to end up with Trump results if you follow Steve Hilton’s

CNN By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Xavier Becerra, the Democratic favorite in California’s race for governor, sought to tie his Republican opponent Steve Hilton to the policies of President Donald Trump as the two debated Wednesday night on CNN. “You’re going to end up with Trump results if you follow Steve Hilton’s

By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Xavier Becerra, the Democratic favorite in California’s race for governor, sought to tie his Republican opponent Steve Hilton to the policies of President Donald Trump as the two debated Wednesday night on CNN. “You’re going to end up with Trump results if you follow Steve Hilton’s plan,”

By Davis Winkie, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new Pentagon autonomous warfare command in a speech on Wednesday to troops at the military base in Quantico, Virginia, a sequel to the speech he delivered last year to senior officers that focused on fitness and culture. Hegseth said the

By Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — When word of an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership call over the weekend leaked to media outlets, some Trump administration officials came to believe the agency planned to limit arrests of undocumented immigrants to those with criminal histories. The perceived softening of the administration’s hardline stance

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A GOP senator blocked a resolution on Tuesday that criticized the Trump administration’s recent taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump. Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming objected to the Democrat-led measure, which stated that taxpayer funds should not have been used for the controversial ads. The measure, from Democratic

By Ellis Kim, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a GOP-led bill to combat rising energy costs driven by the data center boom, thwarting a last-ditch effort by Republicans to show they are taking voter concerns about affordability seriously. Even though the bill only recommends states take action and does not

By Adam Cancryn, Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — An inspector general review of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters renovation found no sign that then-Chair Jerome Powell broke the law or committed misconduct in his management of the costly project, even as it sharply criticized him and the central bank’s board for allowing the price tag to

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a bill to restrict lawmaker stock trading over objections to new voter ID requirements that Republicans added to the legislation. The party-line vote was 53 to 47. While the bill adds more constraints on lawmaker stock trading than what exists under the current law,

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — Federal regulators are investigating former Rep. Adam Kinzinger for trading on the prediction platform Kalshi about a pardon he received from former President Joe Biden, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Biden pardoned Kinzinger last year during the final hours of his presidency, along with other members

By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct complaint against nearly all the federal district judges in Minnesota, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced on Wednesday, escalating tensions between the Trump administration and the judicial branch. The administration’s demand that the judges be disqualified from immigration-related cases was prompted

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to restart its program of removing migrants to countries other than their homeland without giving them an opportunity to raise human rights concerns, and said it would hear arguments in the case later this year. The decision marked the third

By Katherine Koretski, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a strategy to combat antisemitism Tuesday, including tens of millions of dollars in funding for hate crime prevention and Jewish cultural centers. Mamdani, who has faced accusations of antisemitism from some Jewish groups over his criticisms of Israel and his handling of

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan effort aimed at protecting the Kennedy Center from demolition was blocked on the Senate floor Monday night by a lone Republican senator. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah objected to passage of a bill stipulating that any presidential memorial designated by an act of Congress — including the