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By Aleena Fayaz, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — A plan being considered by the Trump administration to allow a developer to use a portion of Yosemite National Park land is facing strong opposition from elected officials and conservationists, reflecting broader concerns about privatizing some of the country’s most cherished landmarks.The National Park Service is considering

By Eric Bradner, CNN Lansing, Michigan (CNN) — Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, is scrambling this weekend to try to win over skeptical Jewish Democrats — meeting individually and with groups of Jewish party leaders and apologizing for controversial past remarks as he tries to unite a fractured party before November.But he downplayed

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — At this point more than two months before the midterm elections, Democrats retaking control of Congress and its subpoena power is far from certain. But President Donald Trump is already laying down legal markers for how he’ll fight any attempt by lawmakers to investigate him.In a Justice Department memo

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Independence, Iowa (CNN) — Of all the cities to visit in Iowa, Rob Sand did not stop here in Independence because it’s a fitting metaphor in his campaign for governor.Yet, he surely needs voters to believe that it is.“I think our political system is broken,” Sand told a crowd seated closely

By Marshall Cohen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration settled an insider-trading case Friday against President Donald Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator, fining him $65,000 for “unlawful” prediction-market trades about Trump’s speeches.The White House aide, Gabriel Perez, will also give up $107,000 in ill-gotten profits from his trades on Kalshi, according to the Commodity Futures Trading

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch will have “adverse” effects on dozens of historical landmarks, the National Park Service found.Nonetheless, the agency concluded in a report released Friday that the arch must stay at the proposed site on the banks of the Potomac River as the project is

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday night the United States has reached an oil agreement with Venezuela, a move he said will “more than double” American oil reserves, increase oil supply and lower gas prices.“At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military, the latest significant case involving trans Americans to reach the conservative court in recent years.Days after taking office last year, Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon to

By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge again denied President Donald Trump’s legal effort to get his New York state criminal hush money case moved to federal court, a move that could have made it easier to reverse his conviction.District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a ruling Friday that Trump’s

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon voiced concerns about the Justice Department election monitors who observed the primary election in his state last week, saying he’s asked his attorney general to look into their “aggressive” behavior.The Justice Department sent two Civil Rights Division attorneys to Laramie County, Wyoming, which includes

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will make it easier for ranchers to process their own meat, in an effort to weaken the control the nation’s four largest meatpacking firms have over the process.The move comes shortly after Trump was pressed on the issue by conservative radio host

By Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, will forgo a visit to ground zero for the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks to instead mark the occasion with remarks at the Pentagon, two people briefed on the plans tell CNN.Trump is not attending the ceremony that will

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the US Postal Service from carrying out a plan, issued under an executive order from President Trump, that could limit mail voting.Democratic states and voter advocacy groups challenging the recently released USPS rules were granted a temporary restraining order

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Amid a growing trade war with one of the United States’ closest allies, President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” needling Canada further after trade talks collapsed.Trump’s executive order marks the president’s latest attempt to use rebranding as an assertion of power —

By Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge Thursday it will not attempt to add President Donald Trump’s name to the building or grounds until October 8 at the earliest, a one-month delay from previous plans.The announcement came in a one-sentence court filing following a

CNN By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” further needling Canada as he engages in a tense trade war with the United States’ northern ally. Flanked in the Oval Office by large maps of the Great Lakes

By Lauren Fox, Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards is lobbying his colleagues to vote against a possible censure over allegations that he repeatedly made unwanted advances toward two female staffers, asserting that familiar conduct toward his employees was not necessarily inappropriate.“An affectionate friendship is not a sexual proposition,” the North Carolina

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has disclosed making another 1,000-plus stock transactions in June, continuing an unprecedented pace of trading activity while in office that has drawn scrutiny over his ability to personally profit off of the presidency.The trades, submitted in a filing to the Office of Government Ethics, included the

By Kevin Liptak, Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s central intelligence chief traveled to Moscow this week with a warning to Russia not to stage an attack in NATO territory, among other issues, according to two people familiar with the matter.CIA Director John Ratcliffe also used the trip, which wasn’t

By Adam Cancryn, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has touted his one-of-a-kind midterm convention as the spectacle his party needs to reenergize voters and alter its political fortunes ahead of the midterms.But as the two-day extravaganza approaches, Republicans are privately questioning if it strikes the right tone amid the electorate’s tightening budgets

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former leaders of the National Archives — which preserves and protects the nation’s most important documents — are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s effort to ignore the Presidential Records Act, a decades old law that requires presidents save all official records from their

By Lauren Fox, CNN Cleveland (CNN) — The senior US senator from Ohio sat with his daughter on a wooden bench in the hallway of the Cuyahoga County courthouse Wednesday, awaiting their turn as a judge in the room next door considered other domestic relations cases, then waiting again as that same judge swiftly declared

By Ashley Killough, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge declined on Wednesday to intervene in a politically sensitive extradition fight over an ICE agent who is currently detained in Texas but is facing state charges in Minnesota for allegedly shooting an immigrant in Minneapolis earlier this year.Texas hasn’t agreed to extradite the agent

By Davis Winkie, Zachary Cohen, Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration sent the nuclear cooperation agreement it had signed with Saudi Arabia to Congress on Monday, an administration official and multiple congressional aides told CNN.The civil nuclear deal, which could allow for uranium enrichment on Saudi soil, will go into effect in 90

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — A month after he became the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine, Troy Jackson is ramping up his appeals to women and voters who care about abortion rights, looking to sharpen a contrast with Republican Sen. Susan Collins that has long been at the center of the race.The task

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — US officials on Wednesday exposed a major alleged Chinese cyber-espionage campaign they say has compromised or attacked numerous federal agencies including NASA, the Federal Reserve, the departments of Justice and Energy and the US Senate.Hackers affiliated with the Chinese military and intelligence services allegedly used a Chinese tech company

By Aleena Fayaz, Kaanita Iyer, Richa Sharma, CNN (CNN) — A man arrested with a guillotine in the bed of his pickup truck near the US Capitol told officers it was “the real deal,” according to an affidavit.Philan-Tam-Duy Le, 35, of Julian, California, was arrested Tuesday and charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, US Capitol

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Two Dan Sullivans will be on the ballot in November for Alaska’s Senate seat, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, an outcome that could benefit Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola’s bid to flip the seat.While incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and Peltola were virtual locks to advance from last week’s all-party primary,

By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump demonstrated his might with Republican primary voters Tuesday in South Carolina, as CNN’s Decision Desk projected that Darline Graham — the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham and the president’s pick in the state’s special Senate primary runoff — will claim the GOP nomination.Now favored