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By Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to put on hold a federal judge’s ruling reinstating thousands of probationary federal employees who were fired as part of the government’s efforts to quickly downsize its workforce. The emergency appeal is the administration’s latest attempt to get the nation’s

CNN By Dana Bash and Courtney Pence, CNN (CNN) — When the House of Representatives was sworn in on January 3, Brittany Pettersen was pushing her luck in being there. The Colorado Democrat was just three weeks away from giving birth to her son, Sam, which she wanted to do in her congressional district with

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court grappled Monday with a years-old, messy legal battle over Louisiana’s congressional districts during an oral argument in which several of the court’s conservatives questioned whether the state had violated the Constitution because of its focus on race. Several of those justices signaled they are prepared to

By Evan Perez and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — As part of the deportation flights of alleged terrorists at the center of a legal and political storm, the US quietly dropped charges against a key alleged MS-13 leader and returned him to the pro-Trump leader of El Salvador. César Humberto López-Larios, an alleged top leader

CNN By Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is escalating his multi-front assault on what supporters see as an elite establishment, using raw presidential power to bend the government, law, media, public health, foreign policy, education and even the arts to his will. Trump left no doubt in last year’s campaign that he’d

By Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — The IRS is close to finalizing an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to help locate migrants suspected of being in the US illegally, a person familiar with the matter said, as President Donald Trump continues his hardline deportation push. The agreement would require Immigration and Customs Enforcement

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — When schools in Kentucky closed for several days last month due to severe flooding, students suddenly began showing up at the Bullitt County Public Library. They had come for the internet. To pay for those high-speed connections that some students lacked at home, the county library – like many

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics experts and shock from former White House officials from both parties. The sponsorship offers range from $75,000 to $200,000, with the

CNN By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics experts and shock from former White House officials from both parties. The sponsorship offers range from $75,000 to $200,000, with

CNN By Sarah Ferris and Manu Raju, CNN (CNN) — Nancy Pelosi privately offered some advice for Hakeem Jeffries as Democrats devolved into bitter infighting over a government funding bill reviled by much of their party. “Use your power,” she told him in an hour-long sit down in his office earlier this month, telling Jeffries

CNN By Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US military officials are scrambling to develop a “Golden Dome” defense system that can protect the country from long-range missile strikes and have been told by the White House that no expense will be spared in order to fulfill one of President Donald Trump’s top

By Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — FBI Director Kash Patel, who also serves as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, has outlined plans to move as many as 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI, cutting ATF’s agents by more than a third, three people briefed on the

By Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann, CNN (CNN) — US military officials are scrambling to develop a “Golden Dome” defense system that can protect the country from long-range missile strikes and have been told by the White House that no expense will be spared in order to fulfill one of President Donald Trump’s top Pentagon

CNN By Evan Perez and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — As part of the deportation flights of alleged terrorists at the center of a legal and political storm, the US quietly dropped charges against a key alleged MS-13 leader and returned him to the pro-Trump leader of El Salvador. César Humberto López-Larios, an alleged top

By Jeff Zeleny and Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move. “I don’t know when it was signed,

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that the Small Business Administration will absorb the Department of Education’s massive student loan portfolio as he seeks to dismantle the agency and shift more power over education to the states. “I’ve decided that the SBA, the Small Business Administration, headed by Kelly Loeffler,

CNN By Marshall Cohen and Casey Gannon, CNN (CNN) — James Boasberg wasn’t supposed to be famous. As the chief judge for the federal court in Washington, DC, Boasberg is well-liked in wonky legal circles and in the courthouse community. He’s a former law school roommate of Brett Kavanaugh and his personality has poked through

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Friday sided with federal prosecutors who moved to tack extra prison time onto the sentence of a Genovese crime family associate known in New York as “Fat Sal” who was convicted of a murder-for-hire plot. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for a seven-justice majority.