Politics

By Jon Sarlin, CNN (CNN) — After the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday night on a 2003 letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included Donald Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman, the president’s denial was comprehensive. “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women,” he told the

CNN By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s chaotic handling of the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files continued Friday as the Justice Department asked a federal judge to make public years-old grand jury testimony made behind closed doors against the convicted sex offender. In its filing, the department justified releasing the heretofore secret evidence

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s chaotic handling of the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files continued Friday as the Justice Department asked a federal judge to make public years-old grand jury testimony made behind closed doors against the convicted sex offender. In its filing, the department justified releasing the heretofore secret evidence as

By Michael Williams, Dan Berman and Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump filed a libel lawsuit against the publisher of the Wall Street Journal and reporters who wrote a story about a collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003, including a note bearing Trump’s name and an

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The State Department had more than a dozen meetings with the White House – including Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff – and other agencies to discuss the topic of student visas, a top department official said in federal court on Friday. The White

By Kristen Holmes, Kylie Atwood, Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Rios, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration completed a large-scale prisoner swap with Venezuela on Friday, sending about 250 Venezuelans who had been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador back to their home country in exchange for 10 US nationals, officials said. Secretary of State Marco

By Devan Cole, CNN Boston (CNN) — A federal judge who previously blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship spent more than an hour Friday grappling with whether his nationwide injunction could stand after the Supreme Court curbed the ability of judges to issue such broad rulings. US District Judge Leo Sorokin of

By Donald Judd, Shania Shelton and Paula Reid, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to unseal pertinent testimony related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, as he appeared to bow to pressure to release more material on the case. “Based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey

By Marshall Cohen, Fredreka Schouten, Tami Luhby, Jackie Wattles and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which he signed into law this month, includes major wins for business interests that carried out aggressive lobbying campaigns on Capitol Hill to secure favorable treatment for their industries. The roughly 900-page law is

By Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — Americans are increasingly skeptical of Israeli actions in Gaza, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS that also finds rising sentiment that the US should pull back on military aid to Israel. Only 23% of Americans say Israel’s actions have been fully justified, a 27-point drop from

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing their steepest premium increases since 2018, driven in part by the looming expiration of Biden-era enhanced premium subsidies and by the Trump administration’s tariffs, a new KFF analysis has found. Insurers are asking for a typical rate increase of 15% with more than

By Lauren Fox, Morgan Rimmer, Sarah Ferris and Nicky Robertson, CNN (CNN) — House Republicans gave the final stamp of approval early Friday morning to a package of $9 billion in spending cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing a win to President Donald Trump. Congress passed the package — which is part of

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — A collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a note bearing Donald Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday. The drawing, depicting a woman’s breasts and a “Donald” signature in the

By Manu Raju, Lauren Fox, Annie Grayer and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — House Republican leaders are preparing for a late night in the chamber as they try to jam through President Donald Trump’s $9 billion package of cuts to federal funding — after a day of intense talks with GOP holdouts demanding a vote

CNN Staff (CNN) — President Donald Trump is furious that some of his supporters won’t let go of questions about disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide while awaiting trial in 2019 and his ties to rich and powerful Americans. The refusal of Trump’s administration to release more information has only fed the

By Associated Press (CNN) — A Maryland man was arrested Thursday on charges that he made threatening calls to the Georgia offices of Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Seth Jason, 64, repeatedly threatened to assault and kill Greene and her family during several calls to her district offices in between October 2023 and January 2025,

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump “would not recommend” a special prosecutor to investigate the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday — despite some GOP calls to do so. “The president would not recommend a special prosecutor in the Epstein case. That’s how he feels,” Leavitt told

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The US House on Thursday passed major bipartisan legislation that aims to regulate a type of cryptocurrency known as stablecoins, sending the bill to the president’s desk for his signature. Lawmakers gave final approval to the GENIUS Act, a first-of-its kind crypto regulatory legislation, in a

By Shania Shelton, CNN (CNN) — Maurene Comey, the Manhattan federal prosecutor who was fired from the US attorney’s office this week, has prosecuted a number of high-profile cases and followed in her father James Comey’s footsteps with her work at the Southern District of New York. Prior to Maurene Comey’s recent dismissal, she was

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was examined for swelling in his legs and has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, the White House announced Thursday. Trump, 79, underwent a “comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies” with the White House Medical Unit, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, reading a note from

By Holmes Lybrand and Angélica Franganillo Díaz, CNN (CNN) — Lawfully present non-citizens in the United States likely have the same First Amendment rights as US citizens, a federal judge said Thursday, even in cases of speech some feel has a repugnant political message. “I’m asking if a lawfully non-citizen has the same rights as

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump was examined for swelling in his legs and has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, the White House announced Thursday. Trump, 79, underwent a “comprehensive examination, including diagnostic vascular studies” with the White House Medical Unit, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, reading a note from the

CNN Jade Walker, CNN The Trump administration has ended the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s specialized service for LGBTQ+ youth. Previously, people who called 988 for help could “press 3” to reach counselors specifically trained to respond to the needs of this community. Since it launched in 2022, the specialized service has received nearly 1.5

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi toured the former Alcatraz prison on Thursday as the Trump administration pushes the idea of re-establishing it as a prison more than 60 years after it was closed. Bondi was there with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to receive a briefing on the facility, a Justice

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — Maurene Comey, a federal prosecutor and the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, told her former colleagues in an email that her sudden firing should “fuel the fire” of their work fighting abuses of power. Comey, who worked on the Jeffrey Epstein and Sean “Diddy” Combs criminal cases,

By Molly Reinmann, CNN (CNN) — Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a federal judgeship, over the loud protests of Democrats. The vote — in which all 12 Republican committee members voted to move Bove’s nomination forward — occurred as

By Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department is asking that a former police officer found guilty of violating the civil rights of Breonna Taylor in 2020 – when she was shot and killed by police in her Louisville home – be sentenced to one day in jail. The officer, Brett