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By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s quest to have the tallest arch in the world took one step closer to being realized on Thursday after a key agency approved a revised design of the structure. However, the overall height of the monument will be lower than previously proposed. While the arch remains

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance made a false claim about manufacturing jobs in a speech on Monday. Then, he made a misleading claim on the same subject while speaking to reporters on Tuesday. On Monday, Vance said last quarter had the biggest growth in manufacturing employment since Trump’s first presidency.

By Ted Barrett, Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s push for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund derailed Senate Republicans’ plans to pass the president’s priority immigration enforcement package Thursday. Senators left Washington for their Memorial Day recess with Republicans saying they were blindsided by the Justice Department’s announcement of the fund and at

By Alayna Treene, David Goldman, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump announced new measures on Thursday to roll back Biden-era regulations on refrigerants in a move his administration argues will help lower grocery prices. Trump, who was joined by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin and executives from major grocery chains for the Oval Office

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Thursday let stand an appeals court decision that barred Alabama from executing a man that lower courts found is likely intellectually disabled. The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, took the unusual step of dismissing an appeal, filed by Alabama, after it heard arguments in

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court subjected the world’s largest cruise ship companies to a stiff headwind on Thursday, reviving a claim that alleged they trafficked in property confiscated by the Cuban government when they docked their ships in Havana. The court’s decision is a loss for Royal Caribbean Cruises, Carnival Corporation

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — James Talarico, Texas Democrats’ US Senate nominee, has thrown his support behind Johnny Garcia in the state’s 35th Congressional District, where Democrats are ramping up their efforts to block a rival candidate who made antisemitic comments ahead of a runoff election next week. “Born and raised in a working

By Tami Luhby, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump made a big promise to Americans seeking fertility care to start or expand their families. “Under the Trump administration, your government will pay for — or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for — all costs associated with

By Zachary Cohen, Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Iran has already restarted some of its drone production during the six-week ceasefire that began in early April, one sign it is rapidly rebuilding certain military capabilities degraded by US-Israeli strikes, according to two sources familiar with US intelligence assessments. Four sources told CNN that US intelligence

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis was censured by his own party Wednesday night for his decision to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters. The Colorado Democratic Party voted to rebuke the governor over his decision to free Peters. “Reducing her sentence now, under pressure from Donald Trump,

By Paula Reid, Casey Gannon, Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche made clear Wednesday that the conduct of January 6, 2021, rioters who attacked law enforcement will be factored when the soon-to-be-set-up commission reviews applications to the anti-weaponization fund. “One of the factors the commissioners have to consider is what the

By Alayna Treene, Tal Shalev, Jeremy Diamond, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump had a tense conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that reflected their different views on how to proceed with the Iran war, a US official told CNN. It wasn’t their first conversation in recent days. When

By Katelyn Polantz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge said Wednesday that White House staff must preserve their official records, including communications that they send via non-official text message services, pushing back on attempts to free President Donald Trump from record-keeping obligations that were set by Congress. The 54-page opinion from Judge John

By Ellis Kim, Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — One Republican congressman says he is exploring ways to end the Trump Justice Department’s move to establish a tax-payer fueled “anti-weaponization” fund, a move likely to draw the ire of President Donald Trump. Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told reporters he “100%” wants to prevent the nearly

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — A US military surveillance blimp operated by contractors near Laredo, Texas, broke free from its tether on Monday evening and later crashed in Mexico. The blimp did not carry a crew when in the air, and no ground personnel were injured in the incident. The 66-foot surveillance blimp’s tether

CNN By Tierney Sneed and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Internal Revenue Service can’t bring claims against President Donald Trump, his family or businesses for past tax issues, according to additional terms added Tuesday to the settlement the Justice Department reached with Trump to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The additional

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN Sacramento, California (CNN) — California Democratic leaders have shifted their strategy to prevent their party from being locked out of the governor’s race: Instead of thinking about consolidating the field, they have turned to behind-the-scenes operations and political spending aimed at tamping down Republicans and building up Democratic turnout. That

CNN By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Monday extended a short-term order that will allow patients to continue to access the abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth visits while the justices deliberate over a high-profile emergency appeal. Justice Samuel Alito issued a temporary order last week that allowed widespread access to the

By Marshall Cohen, Holmes Lybrand, Donie O’Sullivan, CNN (CNN) — Supporters of President Donald Trump who tried to overturn the 2020 election are among those eager to potentially cash in from the $1.8 billion compensation fund for people the Trump administration believes were victims of government “weaponization and lawfare.” In interviews with CNN, convicted US

By Casey Gannon, Paula Reid, Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — A former managing assistant US attorney in the Southern District of Florida has been charged with emailing herself the most sought-after, confidential Justice Department records in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of President Donald Trump, masquerading them as dessert recipes. Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, 62, faces

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement officers who protected the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to block implementation of a newly created $1.8 billion fund for allies of President Donald Trump who say they were unfairly investigated by previous administrations. The lawsuit brought in federal court

By Michael Williams, Jeanne Sahadi, CNN (CNN) — Barney Frank, the barrier-breaking former Massachusetts congressman who helped draft reforms that sought to rein in an unruly financial industry in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, has died. He was 86. His sister Doris Breay confirmed his death to CNN, saying, “he was a

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — A retired Tennessee law enforcement officer who was held in jail for more than a month after police arrested him over a Facebook post of a meme related to the assassination of Charlie Kirk has settled a “unlawful incarceration” lawsuit for $835,000. Under the deal announced Wednesday, Larry Bushart,

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — In 2019, Paige Cognetti launched her campaign for mayor of Scranton, where the incumbent had resigned from office before pleading guilty to federal corruption charges. Wary of the county Democratic Party’s closed nominating process, she ran as an independent. That fall, she found herself in a courtroom with her

By Evan Perez, Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s criminal charges against former Cuban president Raúl Castro is a prosecution more than 30 years in the works, with federal prosecutors in Miami first drafting an indictment against him in the 1990s. After three decades, criminal charges that were announced Wednesday at an event

CNN By Eric Bradner, Arit John, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign steamrolled another Republican rival on Tuesday, with a Trump-backed challenger ousting one of the president’s leading intra-party antagonists, Rep. Thomas Massie, in a Kentucky primary. Former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein’s win over Massie continued a May political payback tour that has

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms will win the Democratic primary for Georgia governor in her quest to become nation’s first Black woman elected governor. If she wins in November, Lance Bottoms also would become the first woman and African American to serve as Georgia’s chief executive. Bottoms, who

By Jeff Zeleny, CNN Hebron, Kentucky (CNN) — For the next seven months, Rep. Thomas Massie will hold something that even President Donald Trump can’t take away: His seat in Congress. The question is what comes next. As Massie becomes the latest Republican added to Trump’s growing list of revenge and retribution, his concession speech

By Arit John, CNN (CNN) — House Democratic leaders condemned efforts Tuesday by a newly registered political action committee to boost a Democratic congressional candidate who made antisemitic comments ahead of a runoff election next week. Leaders in both parties have denounced recent remarks by Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist who won first place in