Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Crew members aboard the aging, rusted oil tanker that the US has been pursuing at sea for nearly two weeks appear to have painted a crude image of a Russian flag on the ship’s hull, which American officials believe is an attempt at claiming Russian protection, a US official

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump issued the first vetoes of his second term Tuesday, blocking two bipartisan, infrastructure-related bills. The president argued that blocking both measures was necessary to save taxpayer dollars. “Enough is enough. My Administration is committed to preventing American taxpayers from funding expensive and unreliable policies. Ending the

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has spent the last several weeks sprinting towards a deadline. After publicly committing to filling many of the top posts in his new administration before taking office, Mamdani, 34, is closing 2025 with a still-evolving image of the team that is going to

CNN By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist who was a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 35. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family said in a statement posted on social media by

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Internal Justice Department files “suggest” that top officials in Washington, DC, worked with federal prosecutors in Nashville to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he fought his wrongful deportation to El Salvador, a federal judge said in a newly unsealed ruling. The December 3 opinion from US District Judge Waverly

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist who was a granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, died on Tuesday, her family announced. She was 35. “Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,” the family said in a statement posted on social media by the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said Tuesday that the Trump administration must keep funds flowing to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, rebuffing its latest gambit to shut down the regulatory agency that has long been a target of conservatives. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who previously halted President Donald

By Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Roughly two dozen ISIS operatives have been killed or captured in Syria by US and partner forces since US airstrikes earlier this month, which were carried out in response to the killing of two American service members. “Nearly 25” operatives were killed or captured between December 20 and 29,

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined Tuesday to make an immediate decision about whether the suspected 2021 Washington, DC, pipe bomber, Brian Cole Jr., will be held in jail as he awaits trial. “I’m sensitive to the urgency of the issue and I do intend to get a ruling out expeditiously,”

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration will feature Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement. Mamdani, who will be publicly sworn in at a City Hall inauguration ceremony on New Year’s Day, will be introduced by

CNN By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration will feature Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the two most prominent leaders of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement. Mamdani, who will be publicly sworn in at a City Hall inauguration ceremony on New Year’s Day, will be introduced

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN New York (CNN) — Zohran Mamdani becomes New York City’s mayor on Thursday with an ambitious agenda that drove a national conversation about affordability but will require billions in public funding and the backing of politicians who have expressed reservations. The 34-year-old democratic socialist has just a few weeks before the

By Brianna Keilar, CNN (CNN) — Back in 2017, when my husband was still in the Army, we learned he was unexpectedly deploying right as we were going to start trying to get pregnant. Military families get accustomed to this pattern: You plan and the United States Armed Forces makes you go back to the

CNN By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. The drone strike, the details of

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Jim Sciutto, CNN (CNN) — The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that country. The drone strike, the details of which

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s Monday meeting in Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated plenty of warm words — but no clear progress in their peace plan for Gaza. The leaders held a private lunch at Mar-a-Lago aimed at working out a series of issues in the Middle East,

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people, according to US Southern Command. “On Dec. 29, at the direction of @SecWar Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a