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By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Federal prosecutors secured an indictment Wednesday detailing nearly 10 charges connected with the killings of Israeli Embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim earlier this year. The indictment against Elias Rodriguez includes counts of premeditated murder and hate crimes resulting in death. It also includes legal findings that

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is planning to quickly ask the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. Justice Department attorneys informed a federal judge in Seattle of the plans on Wednesday as part of a court-ordered update on where things

By Kristen Holmes, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — A dinner planned for Wednesday night at Vice President JD Vance’s residence was seen as an opportunity for Trump administration officials to realign amid the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal, according to four people familiar with the situation. That included a potential chance for Attorney General Pam Bondi

By Annie Grayer, Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — An ex-girlfriend of GOP Rep. Cory Mills is accusing the Florida congressman of having threatened to release sexually explicit images and videos of her after their relationship ended, according to a police report obtained by CNN. Lindsey Langston, a Florida Republican Party committee member and 2024 winner

By Arlette Saenz, Steve Contorno, CNN St. Charles, Illinois (CNN) — A delegation of Texas House Democrats had to evacuate their hotel in Illinois Wednesday morning due to a potential bomb threat, according to multiple lawmakers and local police. St. Charles Police in a statement says the department “responded to a potential bomb threat at

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke said Wednesday that he is raising funds for Democratic members of the state legislature who left Texas to stall a GOP redistricting push. “We’ve got to have their backs,” O’Rourke said in an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room” on Wednesday, praising “tens of thousands”

By Kevin Liptak, Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced sweeping and substantial tariffs on India, one of America’s most important trading partners. In addition to a 25% tariff that is set to go into effect Thursday, Trump also announced an additional 25% tariff on India that will go into effect

By Ethan Cohen, Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — Texas Republicans are on the verge of enacting a congressional map which so efficiently distributes GOP voters that last year, President Donald Trump would’ve won all of the 30 districts where the party hopes to win by at least ten percentage points. In drawing the map, Republicans

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Federal employees will no longer have to meet Elon Musk’s demand that they list their weekly accomplishments in an email or risk termination, the Trump administration said Tuesday. “We communicated with agency HR leads that OPM was no longer going to manage the five things process nor utilize

By John King, CNN Tucson, Arizona (CNN) — Opening a new restaurant is always a risk, but this one even more so: It’s a scorching summer in the Arizona desert, meat prices are up and the economy is unpredictable. “I’m a little nervous,” owner Ray Flores tells a visitor to his new project on Tucson’s

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Both Texas Republicans and Democrats are ratcheting up their rhetoric over proposed US House maps that could give the GOP five more seats. But the action in Austin is stalled for now. Most Democrats who left the state to stop the redistricting effort are showing no signs they will

By Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday reignited his threat for the federal government to “run” Washington, DC, after a former Department of Government Efficiency employee was assaulted in an attempted carjacking. “I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very badly hurt … A young man who was beat

WUSA, TRUTH SOCIAL, @REALDONALDTRUMP, CSPAN, POOL, CNN, Truth Social/@RealDonaldTrump By Rashard Rose, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday reignited his threat for the federal government to “run” Washington, DC, after a former Department of Government Efficiency employee was assaulted in an attempted carjacking. “I have to say that somebody from DOGE was very

By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s trusted foreign envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, after the Kremlin requested that Witkoff visit in a last-ditch effort to avoid the punishing new sanctions Trump has threatened to impose this week, people familiar with the matter said. Witkoff

By Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — Numerous victims of Jeffrey Epstein took aim at the “public legitimization” of his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell as they urged a federal judge considering unsealing grand jury transcripts to take their privacy into account when making his decision. Lawyers Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, who represent numerous victims, including a

By Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is “most likely” the heir apparent to the Make America Great Again movement, the furthest he’s gone in backing Vance as a future presidential candidate. Trump also proposed that Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio join

By Kit Maher, Alayna Treene, Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is trying to use her recent positive relationship with President Donald Trump to get some breaks for her state — on both tariffs and Medicaid changes. Whitmer met with Trump at the White House on Tuesday, where she laid out

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department will seek to indict the man accused of killing two Israeli Embassy staff members in Washington, DC, on federal hate crime charges this week, according to sources familiar with the matter. The indictment against Elias Rodriguez is expected to include special findings for capital punishment, where

By Alexandra Skores, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Expediting work to place a reactor on the lunar surface to help power moon exploration efforts would keep the United States ahead of China and Russia, both

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — Violent crime decreased in the US in 2024, along with property crime, murder and robbery, while the number of reported assaults on officers reached a 10-year high, according to FBI data released Tuesday. According to the FBI’s Reported Crimes in the Nation, a report that relies on local law

By Arit John, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — As Texas Republicans move ahead with redistricting to protect or even expand the GOP’s slim majority in the US House, Democratic-run states, led by California, are pushing forward with their own efforts to draw new maps and add Democratic seats. No Democratic states can shift the balance

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — The House Oversight Committee has issued nearly a dozen subpoenas to the Justice Department and high-profile Democratic and Republican figures for files and information related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a major move that comes as many congressional Republicans call for more transparency around the case.

By Alayna Treene, Josh Campbell, Paula Reid, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump administration officials will gather at the vice president’s residence Wednesday evening as they continue to weigh whether to publish an audio recording and transcript of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s recent conversation with Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. The

By Shania Shelton, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is planning to reinstall two Confederate monuments, following through on a push by President Donald Trump to bring back statues that were removed in the wake of the George Floyd protests. Hours after the US National Park Service said Monday that it will

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — A longtime aide to Joe Biden sat for a transcribed interview in House Republicans’ probe of the former president’s potential cognitive decline and possible efforts to conceal it from the public. Bruce Reed, the former White House deputy chief of staff for policy, appeared before the House Oversight Committee

CNN, KCRA, WRGB, STATE OF NEW YORK By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Texas Republicans on Tuesday failed again to move forward with their redistricting efforts despite issuing civil arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state to stop them. A day after authorizing the warrants against Democrats, Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows said the

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Texas Republicans on Tuesday failed again to move forward with their redistricting efforts despite issuing civil arrest warrants for Democrats who fled the state to stop them. A day after authorizing the warrants against Democrats, Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows said the Texas Department of Public Safety is “actively

By Sarah Ferris, Manu Raju, Jeff Zeleny, CNN (CNN) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently found himself roughly 4,500 miles from home as he sought one thing that could give him an edge in his bitter primary fight against GOP Sen. John Cornyn: an endorsement from President Donald Trump. On the last Saturday in

By David Adkins, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Mike Flood faced a barrage of criticism at a packed town hall in Lincoln, Nebraska, Monday evening as constituents repeatedly confronted him over his support for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” immigration policy and what they described as threats to democracy. It didn’t take long

CNN By David Adkins, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Rep. Mike Flood faced a barrage of criticism at a packed town hall in Lincoln, Nebraska, Monday evening as audience members repeatedly confronted him over his support for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” immigration policy and what they described as threats to democracy. It didn’t