Politics

By Daniel Dale and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk are misleadingly depicting a Pentagon…

By Kara Scannell, Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz and Jeremy Herb, CNN New York (CNN) — Three senior Justice Department officials in New York and…

By Katelyn Polantz and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge has extended the pause on the Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID for…

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Minnesota’s Democratic Sen. Tina Smith announced Thursday that she will not seek reelection in 2026, a decision…

By Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US Senate on Thursday voted to approve Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the secretary of the Department of Health and…

By Jeremy Herb, Ella Nilsen, Rene Marsh and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Federal agencies across Washington are finding ways to keep funding…

CNN By Rene Marsh and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Scores of firings have begun at federal agencies, with terminations of probationary employees…

CNN By Jake Tapper, Pamela Brown, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The newly constituted board of the Kennedy Center for…

By Paula Reid, Tami Luhby and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday allowed the Trump administration to move forward…

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — US Agency for International Development employees this week recounted the panic they experienced in the days after…

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju and Ali Main, CNN Washington (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson’s budget plan is in trouble as multiple GOP hardliners…