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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security has been ensnared by a partial government shutdown that began February 14, after Congress failed to fund the agency. But nearly all DHS workers will remain on the job — even if many won’t get paid until the lapse ends. Overall, much of the

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN (CNN) — Gallup, one of the country’s most well-known polling firms, announced Wednesday that it will no longer track presidential approval or favorability of political figures. The move ends the longest-running continuous effort to track US opinion of the nation’s president, dating back to the tenure of Franklin D. Roosevelt in

By Annie Grayer, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — The budget-slashing Department of Government Efficiency that upended the federal government at the start of President Donald Trump’s second term has stalled out on Capitol Hill, a reality that’s left conservative lawmakers fuming. Inside the White House, the cost-cutting crusade marked by mass firings and blanket funding

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The chairman of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission said Wednesday that he ousted a member of the commission after she sparred with fellow members during a contentious public hearing on antisemitism. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who chairs the commission, said on X that it was his call

By Donald Judd, CNN (CNN) — The National Governors Association said Wednesday that a traditionally bipartisan meeting at the White House next week is back on after invitations were extended to all of its members, even as President Donald Trump continued to rage against two of the nation’s Democratic governors and the organization’s co-chair, GOP

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department’s ongoing struggle with redactions in the released records related to Jeffrey Epstein continued Wednesday when it was discovered that the face of an undercover FBI employee was left uncovered in a video. The department requested CNN make the face of an undercover person unidentifiable in a

By Lauren Fox, Sarah Ferris, CNN (CNN) — Republicans’ warning for President Donald Trump is growing louder with the Department of Homeland Security set to shut down in just days: Don’t feel public pressure to relent on an issue central to his campaign. Even as the White House has engaged with Democrats over reforms to

By Sarah Ferris, Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN (CNN) — In a vote that GOP leaders fought hard to avoid, a half dozen Republicans sent a blunt message to President Donald Trump that they do not support the tariff regime that he has made the centerpiece of his second term. Six Republicans joined with Democrats in the

By Aaron Blake, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday was some of the tensest and most combative testimony we’ve seen to date from a Trump Cabinet official. Bondi came into the hearing with the administration and DOJ facing a series of problems, including their

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — “He’s running from his past, while ICE is in our communities,” the ad’s narrator says. The target of the ad is Alex Bores, a congressional candidate in New York City who used to work for Palantir, the tech company with long ties to defense and intelligence agencies. An image

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Speaker Mike Johnson failed to reinstate a ban on lawmakers’ ability to challenge President Donald Trump’s tariffs when three Republicans crossed party lines to vote with Democrats. The House sank a procedural vote on Tuesday that contained language blocking votes in the chamber that object to Trump’s

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — A federal grand jury on Tuesday declined to indict Democratic lawmakers who posted a video urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey any illegal orders from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter. The Justice Department’s case focused on a

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has removed an LGBTQ Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City, the United States’ first national monument to LGBTQ rights, following a directive restricting what kinds of flags can be flown on National Park sites. The removal is the latest change

By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump threatened in a Monday social media post to block the opening of a major new US-Canada bridge over the Detroit River. But Trump’s post about the Gordie Howe International Bridge included misleading claims and important omissions – even if you ignore his laughable claim that, if

By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Newly unsealed court documents reveal that longtime skeptics of the 2020 election results played a key role in the sweeping search warrant the FBI obtained to seize ballots and other materials from Fulton County, Georgia — a major target of President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his defeat. The

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — The Justice Department on Monday un-redacted more names in the Jeffrey Epstein files after pressure from lawmakers who reviewed unredacted versions of several records. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, said the Justice Department had previously redacted the identities of several people

By Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — With the Trump administration’s mass deportation push under intense scrutiny, the heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and US Citizenship and Immigration Services faced tough questions during a congressional committee hearing on Tuesday. ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott and USCIS Director

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Vice President JD Vance’s X account posted and then deleted a recognition of the Armenian genocide after he paid his respects at a memorial in the country on Tuesday. The original post from the vice president’s account — which said Vance and second lady Usha Vance attended a wreath-laying

By Molly English, Dana Bash, David Wright, Arit John, CNN (CNN) — Analilia Mejia will win the special primary in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District in a tight race over former Rep. Tom Malinowski, a major win for an ally of Sen. Bernie Sanders and other progressives. Malinowski conceded on Tuesday in a statement in

By Samantha Waldenberg, Kevin Liptak, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after the law enforcement investigation into Jeffrey Epstein became public in the mid-2000s, Donald Trump called the Palm Beach, Florida, Police Department to express gratitude, according to a newly released document. “Thank goodness you’re stopping him,” Trump said, according to the document. “Everyone has

By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — In some two dozen cases stemming from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota that CNN has reviewed, federal judges appointed to the bench by Democrats and Republicans have had to use terms like “contempt” and “noncompliance” to get the government’s attention to respond to court orders. To date,

By Lex Harvey, Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump threatened Monday to block the opening of a new bridge connecting the US and Canada, again lashing out at his country’s northern neighbor over a range of economic issues as the rift between Washington and Ottawa deepens. Trump said he would “not allow” the

By Piper HudspethBlackburn, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration will need to unfreeze more than $16 billion earmarked for a major New York infrastructure project by Thursday unless a federal appeals court allows the government to continue withholding the funds, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge Jeannette Vargas in the Southern District of New York

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN It’s Day 4 of the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, where nine gold medals will be decided over the coming hours. Take a look at today’s action-packed schedule of events. Here’s what else you need to know to get up to speed and on with your day. 1️⃣ Nancy Guthrie

By Michael Williams, Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — As the Justice Department faced mounting pressure to release the Epstein files last year, FBI employees were compiling what one described as “salacious” allegations against men in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit and putting together a presentation that included a list of “prominent names” in the investigative files. The

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in California on Monday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing its ban on most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during operations. US District Judge Christina Snyder in Los Angeles granted the Trump administration’s request for a preliminary injunction, finding that the ban “unlawfully discriminates”

CNN By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people with one survivor, according to US Southern Command. “On Feb. 9, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — The US military conducted a strike against another alleged drug-trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing two people with one survivor, according to US Southern Command. “On Feb. 9, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted

By Annie Grayer, Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna charged Monday that powerful men are being protected by redactions to the Epstein files after viewing the documents in full. “What I saw that bothered me were the names of at least six men that have been redacted that are likely