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Associated Press Miami (AP) — A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration.Republican David Rivera has been jailed since jurors found him guilty in

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.Yet-to-be-aired spots include a trio of ads highlighting the US military and operations in Iran and Venezuela, one called “God Made Trump” and another

By Sunlen Serfaty, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, the annual Kennedy Center Honors will be held somewhere other than the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts amid a political and legal fight that has put the institution’s future in limbo.The “relocation” to Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, DC, on Monday, December

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has a long history of trying to rewrite history about his own public remarks. He is now doing it again about the war with Iran – wrongly describing his own past predictions that the war would last mere weeks.In March, Trump said he thought the war

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — National Republicans are starting to make major moves to divert resources away from the North Carolina Senate race where GOP candidate Michael Whatley has long been trailing in polls.The Senate Leadership Fund, the top Republican super PAC in Senate contests, is putting a pause on its ad spending in

By Alayna Treene, Hadas Gold, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is expected to pick Jay Clayton to be the White House’s new czar of artificial intelligence, two sources familiar with the discussion told CNN.The president could announce his decision about Clayton, who is director of national intelligence, as early as Friday, one of the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding “Western civilizational norms,” and documenting “backsliding” in Europe related to mass migration, a source familiar with the matter told CNN.The funds, which come from

By Eric Bradner, Jeff Zeleny, CNN Waterloo, Iowa (CNN) — Republicans are on a rescue mission in Iowa, touting new plans for a $15 billion steel mill as President Donald Trump and the state’s GOP leaders rush to blunt the political impact of a battered economy and prevent the governor’s office, a Senate seat and

By Molly English, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump jokingly described Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton as “a pain in the ass” during remarks in Denton, Texas, on Thursday – the latest in a long line of jabs he has made about his staunch ally who is running in a critical race for the

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department charged a military veteran Thursday for allegedly making dozens of disturbing texts and calls to Katie Miller, a conservative podcaster married to White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, and her family.The man, 41-year-old John Anthony Proia III of Massachusetts, has been charged with one count of

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump cannot fire US attorneys who have been appointed by courts, a federal judge in Washington state said Thursday in a first-of-its-kind ruling that tests the scope of a president’s removal power under the Constitution.The ruling comes from a lawsuit by Roger Rogoff, who was appointed by

By Sean Lyngaas, Josh Campbell, CNN (CNN) — An Iranian man accused of being part of a hacking scheme that breached more than 150 US universities and companies while targeting data worth over $3 billion has been extradited from Montenegro to the US to face criminal charges, police in the European country and a person

By Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — We don’t yet know how the 2026 midterm elections will shake out.What we can say right now is that President Donald Trump’s handling of inflation is a historic liability — the likes of which we’ve rarely seen in modern American politics.As many as 8 in 10 Americans now disapprove

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday dismissed charges against David Hearn, the former US Olympian initially accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial, with prejudice, citing President Donald Trump’s comments to ensure charges cannot be brought in the future.The judge found Hearn faced threats of a meritless

By Priscilla Alvarez, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers will only be allowed to conduct vehicle stops if they have completed related training courses and must ensure that vehicles used for stops are equipped with lights and sirens, according to new internal guidance reviewed by CNN.The memo, which a senior ICE

By Kit Maher, Betsy Klein, Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said this week that he doesn’t think there will be peace with Iran in a sit-down interview that comes a little over a month before Republicans face a key test on Americans’ faith in their leadership.The interview with TIME Magazine, which was

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to review President Donald Trump’s policy of imposing mandatory detention without bond hearings for people who entered the country illegally, taking up one of the administration’s most aggressive and controversial moves to crack down on immigration.By granting an appeal on the Immigrations and Customs

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Suspected Chinese hackers impersonated an Anthropic employee and ex-US officials in an espionage campaign aimed at gaining insights into American AI developments, a US cybersecurity firm said Thursday.The hackers targeted the email accounts of experts in AI export controls and the military applications of AI, among other topics, who

By Ethan Cohen, Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Election Day is still a month away, but more than 700,000 Americans have already voted across at least 30 states. There are signs emerging of the advantage Democrats have in motivating their voters – a trend that’s played out in polling all summer long.In several states with

By Sarah Ferris, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Bernie Sanders has spent the last decade growing his political movement by muscling left-wing hopefuls through Democrat-on-Democrat primary fights across the country.Now for the first time, Sanders’ handpicked candidates are battling it out in some of the toughest – and most expensive – races of the general

CNN By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Xavier Becerra, the Democratic favorite in California’s race for governor, sought to tie his Republican opponent Steve Hilton to the policies of President Donald Trump as the two debated Wednesday night on CNN. “You’re going to end up with Trump results if you follow Steve Hilton’s

CNN By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Xavier Becerra, the Democratic favorite in California’s race for governor, sought to tie his Republican opponent Steve Hilton to the policies of President Donald Trump as the two debated Wednesday night on CNN. “You’re going to end up with Trump results if you follow Steve Hilton’s

By Eric Bradner, Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Xavier Becerra, the Democratic favorite in California’s race for governor, sought to tie his Republican opponent Steve Hilton to the policies of President Donald Trump as the two debated Wednesday night on CNN.“You’re going to end up with Trump results if you follow Steve Hilton’s plan,” the

By Davis Winkie, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new Pentagon autonomous warfare command in a speech on Wednesday to troops at the military base in Quantico, Virginia, a sequel to the speech he delivered last year to senior officers that focused on fitness and culture.Hegseth said the new

By Priscilla Alvarez, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — When word of an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership call over the weekend leaked to media outlets, some Trump administration officials came to believe the agency planned to limit arrests of undocumented immigrants to those with criminal histories.The perceived softening of the administration’s hardline stance to

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — A GOP senator blocked a resolution on Tuesday that criticized the Trump administration’s recent taxpayer-funded ads promoting President Donald Trump.Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming objected to the Democrat-led measure, which stated that taxpayer funds should not have been used for the controversial ads.The measure, from Democratic Sen. Maggie

By Patrick Svitek, CNN (CNN) — Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee in Maine’s battleground Senate race, apologized on Wednesday for saying it is “unfortunate” that Jewish residents of the state do not like to label the war in Gaza a genocide.“I believe what’s happening in Gaza is genocide, and I also understand that word carries

By Ellis Kim, Lauren Fox, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a GOP-led bill to combat rising energy costs driven by the data center boom, thwarting a last-ditch effort by Republicans to show they are taking voter concerns about affordability seriously.Even though the bill only recommends states take action and does not mandate

By Adam Cancryn, Matt Egan, CNN (CNN) — An inspector general review of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters renovation found no sign that then-Chair Jerome Powell broke the law or committed misconduct in his management of the costly project, even as it sharply criticized him and the central bank’s board for allowing the price tag to

By Annie Grayer, CNN (CNN) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a bill to restrict lawmaker stock trading over objections to new voter ID requirements that Republicans added to the legislation.The party-line vote was 53 to 47. While the bill adds more constraints on lawmaker stock trading than what exists under the current law, all