Anger and outrage are spilling out onto Minneapolis’ streets over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer
January 08, 2026
Venezuela releases first prisoners in ‘peace’ gesture: Here’s what to know
January 08, 2026
Federal officials say an immigration officer acted in self-defense when he shot through the window of a car, killing the driver, Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis
January 09, 2026
Iran’s government has cut off the country from the internet and international telephone calls
January 08, 2026
The House has passed legislation that extends expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act
January 08, 2026
A day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed 37-year-old mother of three Renee Good as she tried to drive away on a snowy Minneapolis street, tensions have remained high
January 08, 2026
Top diplomats from Greenland and Denmark met with White House officials as Trump pushes for ownership
January 09, 2026
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has delivered his final State of the State address to lawmakers in Sacramento
January 08, 2026
President Donald Trump’s plan to control Venezuela's oil industry and counter China's influence could clash with his goal of stabilizing trade with Beijing
January 09, 2026
Energy executives scramble to head off Trump demands on Venezuela
January 08, 2026
Fights over which agencies will be involved in the investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis are roiling as calls for a thorough investigation and accountability mount
January 09, 2026
The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body
January 08, 2026
Republican Congressman Don Bacon joins The Lead.
January 06, 2026
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a football fan, now is quarterbacking President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team as it navigates particularly turbulent global waters, notably in Venezuela
January 08, 2026
Do ICE agents have absolute immunity? No, experts say, but it’s not easy for a state to prosecute
January 08, 2026
Vice President JD Vance is blaming a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed
January 08, 2026
President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices
January 08, 2026
Trump orders ‘my representatives’ to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds in effort to lower housing costs
January 08, 2026
Syrian authorities have warned civilians to leave a contested area in Aleppo as clashes between government and Kurdish forces intensify
January 08, 2026
Hill liberals push for shutdown clash over ICE funding but face resistance in Democratic ranks
January 08, 2026
Police departments have changed their policies regarding use of force over the years to protect life, but ICE and other federal agencies have lagged in this regard.
January 08, 2026
Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sonia De Los Santos has canceled her upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington
January 08, 2026
Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island
January 08, 2026
Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk
January 08, 2026
The White House says structural issues and decay had made it unfeasible to save the East Wing
January 08, 2026
Environmental groups claim federal and state officials withheld evidence about funding for an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades
January 08, 2026
The House refused Thursday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of two low-profile bills as Republicans stuck with the president despite their prior support for the measures
January 08, 2026
Newsom contrasts California ‘blueprint’ with Trump’s ‘carnival of chaos’ in final state of state address
January 08, 2026
Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program
January 08, 2026
The Mexican government reports a sharp decline in homicide rates, claiming its security strategy is working
January 08, 2026
Russia has strongly condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker
January 08, 2026
President Donald Trump is causing some commotion for investors in U.S. defense contractors this week
January 08, 2026
New York City parents may soon have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds, under a plan unveiled by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani
January 08, 2026
Israel’s prime minister says a former U.N. Mideast envoy, Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov, has been chosen to serve as the director-general for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace aimed at overseeing the peace process in Gaza
January 08, 2026
What we know about ICE’s fatal shooting of a US citizen in Minneapolis
January 08, 2026
Judge says Trump’s acting US Attorney investigating Letitia James is serving unlawfully
January 08, 2026
A grand jury once again declined to bring a new indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James over alleged fraud on mortgage paperwork. CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig says the department needs to stop and it's embarassing they were unable to convince a grand jury to indict on two separte occasions.
January 08, 2026
Russian drone strikes have knocked out power in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region and left over 600,000 households in Dnipropetrovsk without electricity
January 08, 2026
The longest-serving Democrat in Congress has announced he's retiring at the end of his term, saying he's deeply concerned "this House is not living up to the Founders’ goals.”
January 08, 2026
Handful of Republicans join Democrats to force Senate check on Trump’s war powers in Venezuela
January 08, 2026
Protesters gather outside Orlando City Hall after ICE fatally shoots Minneapolis woman
January 08, 2026
Woman says she never applied for unemployment benefits that letter asked her to repay
January 08, 2026
North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis joins The Lead.
January 07, 2026
A woman is dead in Minneapolis after a shooting involving immigration officers, who were conducting targeted operations in Minneapolis on Wednesday. A statement from the Dept of Homeland Security said that “violent rioters weaponized” a vehicle and attempted to run over officers. CNN's Whitney Wild reports from Minneapolis.
January 08, 2026
Baltimore pays $14 million to wrongfully convicted man who spent 31 years in prison
January 08, 2026
Lebanon says first phase of plan to disarm Hezbollah completed, but Netanyahu warns progress ‘far from sufficient’
January 08, 2026
Northern Colorado city to change approach in response to homelessness
January 08, 2026
DHS officials privately express shock at department’s immediate response to Minneapolis shooting
January 08, 2026
The U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support
January 08, 2026
Lebanon's military says it has ended the first phase of its plan to deploy across southern Lebanon and disarm non-state groups, including Hezbollah
January 08, 2026
Saudi-backed forces move to capture key Yemeni city as crisis with UAE deepens
January 08, 2026
Russia says any foreign forces in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate targets’, after UK and France pledge troops
January 08, 2026
Dozens of angry farmers have demonstrated in France and Greece, halting traffic and blocking roads with tractors to protest European Union plans to move forward with a free trade deal with five South American nations
January 08, 2026
DHS said a woman attempted to run over ICE officers before being shot in Minneapolis. Here’s what videos show
January 08, 2026
Trump’s controversial ballroom could solve a decades-long problem — and is taking the first formal steps for construction
January 08, 2026
Neighbors describe peaceful morning interrupted by gunfire after deadly Minneapolis ICE shooting
January 08, 2026
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro launches his reelection bid with bigger plans in mind
January 08, 2026
Longtime DC delegate faces challenge from former staffer for seat in Congress
January 08, 2026
Despite Trump-Petro feud, US-Colombia anti-drug partnership remains strong
January 08, 2026
What we know about the US seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker
January 08, 2026
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission into antisemitism, weeks after a deadly attack at a Jewish holiday event in Bondi Beach
January 08, 2026
State lawmakers and governors will have decisions to make in 2026 about the budgets for their biggest social safety net programs
January 08, 2026
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela
January 07, 2026
Mogadishu’s first line of defense against the next militant attack on Somalia’s capital ranges from machine gunners in pick-up trucks to young men in plainclothes manning checkpoints
January 08, 2026
Venezuela's military has held a funeral for some of the soldiers killed during the U.S. operation that captured former President Nicolás Maduro
January 07, 2026
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says ICE agent was justified in fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman after mayor disputes DHS account
January 08, 2026
Spencer Pratt, a reality television personality who lost his home in the deadly Palisades wildfire last year, said Wednesday that he intends to run for mayor of Los Angeles
January 08, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threats against Greenland pose a new and potentially unprecedented challenge to NATO, perhaps even an existential one
January 07, 2026
House Oversight hearing over fraud allegations in Minnesota drew shouting and partisan fury. Here are the takeaways
January 08, 2026
Federal prosecutors are slamming Luigi Mangione’s lawyers for making what the government said were “meritless” and “misleading” claims about Attorney General Pam Bondi’s ties to a lobbying firm and her decision to seek the death penalty against Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
January 08, 2026
U.S. transportation officials say California will lose $160 million for delaying the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants
January 07, 2026
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies and commissions
January 07, 2026
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis motorist during the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown in a major U.S. city — a shooting that federal officials claimed was an act of self-defense but that the city’s mayor described as “reckless” and unnecessary
January 07, 2026
What to know about Diosdado Cabello, the powerful Venezuelan minister who may be in jeopardy next
January 07, 2026
The State Department says it has suspended all U.S. assistance to Somalia’s federal government over allegations that Somali officials destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program and seized 76 metric tons of food aid intended for impoverished civilians
January 07, 2026
The House is pushing ahead with legislation to renew subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans
January 07, 2026
Georgia is the latest state to consider eliminating its personal income tax, with Republican leaders in the Senate backing a proposal to phase it out by 2032
January 07, 2026
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down in May after its owners cited financial losses
January 07, 2026
President Donald Trump is proposing setting U_S_ military spending at $1_5 trillion in 2027, citing “troubled and dangerous times.”
January 07, 2026
US seizes Russian-flagged oil tanker linked to Venezuela
January 07, 2026
GOP senator’s scathing message to Stephen Miller: Get informed on Greenland or leave the job
January 07, 2026
Speaker Mike Johnson has invited President Donald Trump to give his first State of the Union of his second term on Feb. 24
January 07, 2026
The U.S. population is projected to grow more slowly over the next 30 years than previously predicted
January 07, 2026
New guidelines for healthy eating say Americans should eat more whole foods and protein, fewer highly processed foods and less added sugar
January 07, 2026
President Donald Trump says he wants to block large institutional investors from buying houses, saying that a ban would make it easier for younger families to buy their first homes
January 07, 2026
A separatist group in southern Yemen says it's urgently trying to contact a delegation that traveled to the Saudi capital for talks meant to de-escalate recent tensions
January 07, 2026
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he plans to meet with Danish officials next week after the Trump administration reiterated its intention to take over the strategic Arctic island
January 07, 2026
Officials in Connecticut and Arizona are defending their decision to refuse a request from the U.S. Justice Department to turn over detailed voter information
January 07, 2026
Venezuela’s oil industry has been in the spotlight since President Donald Trump captured the country’s President Nicolas Maduro
January 07, 2026
Officials in about one-third of the states have considered revising their U.S. House districts since President Donald Trump called for mid-decade redistricting
January 07, 2026
Mexico has emerged as a key fuel supplier to Havana as the United States prepares to seize control of Venezuelan oil and the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump hardens its stance toward Cuba
January 07, 2026
Why does health care reform keep failing despite decades of attention and expanding costs? A scholar of Congress has some answers.
January 07, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is supporting a new housing official amid backlash over past social media posts
January 07, 2026
The Trump administration has finalized a plan to roll back regulations implementing a landmark environmental law that the White House says needlessly delays federal approvals for energy and infrastructure projects
January 07, 2026
Trump threatens to ban institutional investors from buying single-family homes
January 07, 2026
Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for a special session in April for Florida’s legislature to redraw congressional districts
January 07, 2026
The European Union is renewing negotiations for a free trade agreement with five South American nations neighboring Venezuela
January 07, 2026
ICE officer fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis, investigation underway
January 07, 2026
ICE entered hospital without warrant, handcuffed patient to bed, community organizers say
January 07, 2026
On the 5th anniversary of the insurrection, a DC march celebrates the rioters pardoned by Donald Trump, while Democrats struggle to remind the public that a mob stormed the Capitol.
January 06, 2026
Separate and alone: How Nicolás Maduro and his wife can expect to be treated in jail
January 07, 2026
Opposition supporters have long hoped their leaders could replace Nicolás Maduro as Venezuela's president
January 07, 2026
Man pardoned by Trump for participation in Jan. 6 riot says life hasn’t changed a year later
January 07, 2026
Word of the Week: What makes a military attack ‘kinetic’?
January 07, 2026
Shooting at Airbnb reignites calls for regulation on short-term rentals
January 07, 2026
The U.S. military operation in Venezuela can be seen as both a benefit and a burden for Russian President Vladimir Putin
January 07, 2026
Trump administration demands Venezuela cut ties with US adversaries to resume oil production
January 07, 2026
Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela should care more about the US invasion and capture of President Nicolás Maduro than the Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
January 07, 2026
Farm bills – famously complex legislative and spending balances between farm subsidies, food assistance, conservation and more – have tended to be passed about every five years since 1933.
January 07, 2026
Fighting has escalated in Syria's northern city of Aleppo
January 07, 2026
Frustration and anger are brewing among young protesters in Nepal who helped topple the government
January 07, 2026
White House rewrites January 6 history and blames police for deadly attack on 5-year anniversary
January 06, 2026
Faith leaders are urging prayers for peace following the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro
January 07, 2026
The US has tried to acquire Greenland before – and failed
January 07, 2026
Everyone is talking about Greenland. Here’s what it’s like to visit
January 12, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans still face deportation from US after Maduro capture
January 07, 2026
Iran’s army chief has threatened preemptive military action over the “rhetoric” targeting the Islamic Republic
January 07, 2026
As Iran is gripped by new protests, many people there are focused on the U.S. raid in Venezuela and wonder whether the same could occur in Tehran
January 07, 2026
Plans for $2.3 billion stadium ignite debate in 2032 Olympics host city
January 07, 2026
Japanese PM’s Taiwan comments prompt China to ban certain exports to Japan
January 06, 2026
The White House website is officially re-writing the history of the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Anderson is Keeping Them Honest.
January 06, 2026
Notorious CIA spy whose treachery caused the deaths of countless sources has died in federal prison
January 07, 2026
Trump administration freezes billions in social services funding to five Democratic states
January 06, 2026
Uganda is preparing for a election in an atmosphere of political violence
January 07, 2026
A photo of 21-year-old Mariana Camargo dashing through the streets of eastern Caracas as explosions boomed in the background was soon on front pages of major international outlets
January 07, 2026
Days after US attack, weary but resilient Venezuelans try to return to normal amid fears of repression
January 06, 2026
President Donald Trump says Venezuela will be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledges to use proceeds from the sale of this oil “to benefit the people” of both countries
January 06, 2026
Trump says Venezuela will turn over 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to US
January 07, 2026
President Donald Trump’s administration is withholding funding to help needy families with children in five states governed by Democrats
January 06, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security says it has launched in Minnesota what it's calling the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency
January 06, 2026
White House discussing ‘options’ to acquire Greenland, says military use isn’t off the table
January 06, 2026
The White House says the U.S. military is “always an option” for acquiring Greenland, despite European leaders rejecting President Donald Trump's comments about taking over the island
January 06, 2026
Venezuela's military says the U.S. operation to capture Nicolás Maduro resulted in dozens of casualties
January 06, 2026
What parents need to know about the overhauled childhood vaccine schedule
January 06, 2026
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is ending his gubernatorial re-election bid. Podcast host Blois Olson joins CNN This Morning to explain why the former Democratic vice presidential nominee has decided not to run for another term as governor.
January 05, 2026
As the Trump administration continues to investigate a series of alleged fraud schemes at Minnesota day care centers run by Somali residents, social media users are falsely citing a Craigslist ad as evidence of such deceit
January 06, 2026
An individual accused of vandalizing the Ohio home of Vice President JD Vance and causing other property damage is behind bars pending a Friday hearing
January 06, 2026
California Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s sudden death this week leaves a new vacant seat in the House
January 06, 2026
UK and France agree to send troops to Ukraine in event of peace deal with Russia
January 06, 2026
2,000 federal agents are being deployed to Minneapolis in an escalated immigration push. Here’s what we know
January 06, 2026
A suburban Phlladelphia shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise that became a magnet for die-hard supporters announced it’s closing its doors, six years after opening
January 06, 2026
Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing — a heavily secured spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president and pleaded “soy inocente” — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that could keep him locked up and out of power for years, maybe even the rest of his life
January 06, 2026
Will Amy Klobuchar run for Minnesota governor? ‘I’m seriously considering it,’ she says
January 05, 2026
Ukraine’s allies have made major progress toward defending the country if a peace deal is struck with Russia
January 06, 2026
The Cuban government has revealed the identities of 32 military personnel killed during the U.S. capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
January 06, 2026
The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States
January 06, 2026
President Donald Trump promised that “America First” would stand against more foreign entanglements
January 06, 2026
Trump’s ‘ammunition’ for House GOP to win the midterms involves lots of grievances
January 06, 2026
On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, there is no official event to memorialize what happened
January 06, 2026
A former Republican lawmaker in Arizona has been sentenced to probation and a five-year ban on running for public office
January 06, 2026
President Donald Trump wants Republicans to get a deal on health care insurance assistance by being flexible on a long-standing budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services
January 06, 2026
Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a controversial settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two
January 06, 2026
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down two laws that include the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills
January 06, 2026
George Conway says he is running for a U.S. House seat in New York City
January 06, 2026
The deadliest clashes so far have erupted between Syrian government forces and Kurdish fighters in Aleppo
January 06, 2026
Trump officials told lawmakers that Maduro and his wife hit their heads as they attempted to flee US forces
January 06, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his foreign minister and the governor general will visit Greenland in early February in the wake of renewed threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the Danish territory
January 06, 2026
Justice Department uses Maduro case to defend Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act for deportations
January 06, 2026
Republican U.S. Rep. Jim Baird of Indiana is recovering from a car crash and expected to make a full recovery, A statement from Baird's office says he is recovering, but details of the crash are not immediately clear
January 06, 2026
New Orleans ended 2025 with its third year of declining violent crime rates even as armed National Guard troops patrolled the city's streets on the orders of President Donald Trump
January 05, 2026
President Donald Trump hasn’t minced words about the larger message he’s trying to send the world with the U.S. military raid to capture Nicolás Maduro
January 06, 2026
Suspect charged with murder of Ravenscroft teacher held without bond
January 06, 2026
Protesters angry over Iran's ailing economy have conducted a sit-in at Tehran's Grand Bazaar
January 06, 2026
California GOP Congressman Doug LaMalfa dies at 65
January 06, 2026
Venezuelan restaurant in Indy turns into community hub amid homeland crisis
January 06, 2026
Uniontown swears in its first-ever woman police chief
January 06, 2026
There are few signs that President Donald Trump’s supporters wanted the United States to become more embroiled in foreign conflicts — even as many Republicans show initial support for his military strike in Venezuela
January 06, 2026
Even after Maduro’s capture, Democrats try to keep their focus on affordability
January 06, 2026
The many ways lawyers for Maduro could try to derail the case against him
January 06, 2026
China has banned exports to Japan of dual-use goods for military purposes
January 06, 2026
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says an American takeover of Greenland would amount to the end of the NATO military alliance
January 05, 2026
The capture of Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces has sparked global controversy
January 06, 2026
Israel's air force has struck areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, including Sidon, the country's third-largest city
January 05, 2026
President Donald Trump said Saturday that the US is “going to run” Venezuela in the immediate aftermath of President Nicolás Maduro's capture. Trump did not offer a timeline for how long he anticipated such a transition of power would take.
January 04, 2026
Apprehensive of what comes next, some Venezuelans are heading to local stores for supplies. Journalist Mary Mena reports from Caracas.
January 04, 2026
A Paris court is set to rule in a case involving 10 people accused of cyberbullying French first lady Brigitte Macron
January 05, 2026
The U.S. capture and ouster of Venezuelan strongman leader Nicolás Maduro marked a stunning culmination of the Trump administration’s efforts to assert dominance in Latin America
January 05, 2026
One of the first police officers to respond to the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, goes on trial Monday on charges that he failed to protect children during the attack, when authorities waited more than an hour to confront the gunman
January 05, 2026
A clearer picture is emerging of what Trump meant when he said the US will ‘run’ Venezuela
January 04, 2026
A day after the ouster of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump is renewing his calls for an American takeover of the Danish territory of Greenland and is threatening Colombia with military action over its drug trade
January 04, 2026
Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodríguez has taken the place of her ally President Nicolás Maduro who was captured by the United States in a nighttime military operation
January 04, 2026
President Donald Trump's plan to take control of Venezuela's oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing that country's president in a military raid isn't likely to have a significant immediate impact on oil prices
January 04, 2026
If Washington governs by force in Venezuela, it will repeat the failures of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya: Power can topple regimes, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy.
January 05, 2026
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has observed test-flights of hypersonic missiles and underscored the need to bolster the country’s nuclear war deterrent
January 05, 2026
Venezuelans remain in shock after President Nicolás Maduro was deposed and captured in a U.S. military operation
January 04, 2026
Venezuelans hunker down, apprehensive about what comes next
January 04, 2026
When Nicolás Maduro appears in a New York courtroom to face U.S. drug charges, he'll be following a path taken by Panama's Manuel Noriega, another strongman who was toppled by American forces
January 04, 2026
President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela is testing his ability to hold the Republican coalition together
January 04, 2026
Homeland Security expert Donell Harvin joins The Lead.
January 02, 2026
The New York jail holding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is a facility so troubled, some judges have refused to send people there even as it has housed such famous inmates as music stars R. Kelly and Sean “Diddy” Combs
January 04, 2026
Trump’s MAGA allies mostly rally behind his Venezuela strike
January 04, 2026
Inside the operation: How the US moved to capture Nicolás Maduro
January 03, 2026
Officials say Ukrainian drone strikes killed two people and wounded two others, including a child, in Russia’s Belgorod and Kursk regions on Sunday
January 04, 2026
Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaving Capitol Hill after five years as one of the most well-known members of Congress
January 04, 2026
South Korea says North Korea has launched ballistic missiles toward the sea
January 03, 2026
What the Noriega case can tell us about Maduro’s upcoming legal battle
January 04, 2026
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has begun his visit to China as Beijing aims to strengthen ties amid heightened tensions with Japan over Taiwan
January 04, 2026
Israel has revoked the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations, and now those groups are grappling with how that will affect aid operations in Gaza
January 04, 2026
The U.S. military operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has disrupted Caribbean travel
January 03, 2026
Venezuelans are trying to understand who is in charge after the United States announced the capture of President Nicolás Maduro
January 03, 2026
President Donald Trump says the United States will run Venezuela at least temporarily after an audacious military operation plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country
January 03, 2026
Who is Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s leader after Maduro’s capture?
January 04, 2026
President Donald Trump insists that the U.S. government would run Venezuela after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolás Maduro from power and removed him from the country
January 03, 2026
Revelers chanted “liberty” and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders in South Florida on Saturday to celebrate the U.S. military operation to capture President Nicolás Maduro and remove him from the country
January 03, 2026
A federal appeals panel has ruled that a California law prohibiting open carry of firearms in heavily populated counties is unconstitutional
January 04, 2026
President Donald Trump declared Saturday’s military operation that led to the ouster of Nicolás Maduro a major success
January 03, 2026
Visualizing the US assault on Venezuela
January 03, 2026
President Donald Trump has held a news conference to explain a U.S. raid on Venezuela to extract President Nicolás Maduro and his wife
January 03, 2026
Legal questions are being raised about the Trump administration’s capture of Venezuela’s president and claims that it will “run” the South American country
January 03, 2026
Nicolás Maduro’s capture by US met with celebrations in South Florida and apprehension in Caracas
January 03, 2026
Congress has a legal, constitutional and even moral responsibility to assert itself as a branch when it comes to military actions by the US, says an expert on war powers.
January 03, 2026
The US has captured Venezuelan leader Maduro. Here’s what to know
January 03, 2026
President Donald Trump and U.S. officials have laid out some of the details of the U.S. military strike against Venezuela that led to the capture of leader Nicolás Maduro
January 03, 2026
Who is Cilia Flores, Maduro’s wife and ‘first combatant’ of Venezuelan socialism?
January 03, 2026
Trump says US is taking control of Venezuela’s oil reserves. Here’s what it means
January 03, 2026
Embattled Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan, who was convicted of obstruction last month for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, has sent her resignation letter to the governor
January 03, 2026
National security advisers from Europe and other allies have discussed security guarantees in Kyiv as the U.S.-led push to end the war in Ukraine intensifies
January 03, 2026
Iran’s supreme leader has addressed the ongoing protests, insisting that “rioters must be put in their place.”
January 03, 2026
Minnesota families and child care providers scramble as federal funds hang in balance
January 03, 2026
Nicolás Maduro's fall at the hands of the United States follows months of pressure from the Trump administration
January 03, 2026
President Donald Trump had long threatened that he could order military strikes on targets on Venezuelan territory after months of attacks on boats accused of carrying drugs from the South American country
December 05, 2025
Myanmar's military-appointed election body has announced the winners of the first phase of its three-part general election
January 03, 2026
One of the first officers on the scene at the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, is about to stand trial
January 03, 2026
Coast Guard suspends search for people who abandoned ship after US strikes on alleged drug boats
January 03, 2026
Angelina Jolie visits Rafah Crossing as Gaza aid groups face Israeli suspension
January 02, 2026
‘Wicked’ composer says he won’t appear at Kennedy Center after name change
January 03, 2026
President Donald Trump has invited Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to visit the United States this year
January 03, 2026
Yemen’s separatist movement has announced a constitution for an independent nation in the south and demanded other factions in the war-torn country accept the move
January 02, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials have exchanged dueling threats as widening economic protests sweep across parts of the Islamic Republic
January 02, 2026
Russia files diplomatic request asking US to stop pursuing oil tanker originally bound for Venezuela
January 02, 2026
The Coast Guard said it's still searching for people who had jumped off alleged drug-smuggling boats when the U.S. military attacked them days earlier
January 03, 2026
Zohran Mamdani, New York City's new mayor, begins his term with a symbolic commute
January 02, 2026
Teen arrested in alleged ISIS-inspired attack plot intended for New Year’s Eve near Charlotte
January 02, 2026
In Rama Duwaji’s New York, everyone is entitled to a little glamour
January 02, 2026
No major change in troop levels after Trump says US is ‘locked and loaded’ to defend Iranian protesters
January 02, 2026
A grandmother and her 5-year-old grandson have burned to death in Gaza when their tent caught fire
January 02, 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed the head of the country’s military intelligence as his new chief of staff
January 02, 2026
A federal magistrate judge has refused to order the pretrial release of a man charged with planting two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national parties on the eve of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021
January 02, 2026
Trump shops for marble for new White House ballroom
January 02, 2026
Man accused of placing pipe bombs near GOP and Democratic headquarters in Washington to remain in jail pending trial
January 02, 2026
Two of the Middle East’s most powerful countries are facing off in Yemen. Here’s what to know
January 02, 2026
Key figures in the long-running controversy over alleged fraudulent safety net programs in Minnesota
January 02, 2026
A court in Pakistan’s capital has sentenced seven people to life imprisonment after convicting them of inciting violence
January 02, 2026
Trump tells WSJ he takes a higher daily dose of aspirin than his doctors advise in lengthy interview on his health
January 01, 2026
Please disregard EU-Russia-Ukraine-War-5th Ld-Writethru, initially published on Jan. 1, 2026
January 01, 2026
What we know about a Minneapolis day care center that was highlighted in video about alleged fraud
January 01, 2026
About 6 in 10 Americans say they feel politically connected by generation
January 02, 2026
Exclusive: DHS begins slashing FEMA disaster response staff as 2026 begins
January 02, 2026
Venezuela has detained several Americans as tensions with US rise
January 01, 2026
Zohran Mamdani is reveling in what he calls a “new era” for New York City
January 01, 2026
Demonstrations sparked by Iran's struggling economy have spread into rural provinces, with at least seven people killed
January 01, 2026
Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration celebrates the progressive movement as New York’s incoming mayor pledges an expansive agenda
January 01, 2026
While fans trickled into the Orange Bowl stadium where tickets were going for as little as $39, the commissioner of the Big 12 said “everything is on the table” when it comes to rebooting the College Football Playoff, including potentially moving another round of games onto campus
January 01, 2026
President Donald Trump defended his energy and health in an interview with The Wall Street Journal
January 01, 2026
President Donald Trump signed a New Year’s Eve proclamation delaying increased tariffs on upholstered furniture, kitchen cabinets and vanities for a year, citing ongoing trade talks
January 01, 2026
Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is making history not only as the city's first mayor to take the oath of office on a Quran but also as the first Muslim, South Asian, and African-born mayor
January 01, 2026
The Trump administration faces a legal complaint from government employees over a new policy eliminating coverage for gender-affirming care in federal health insurance programs
January 01, 2026
Enhanced tax credits that have helped Americans offset the cost of Affordable Care Act health insurance for the last four years expired overnight
January 01, 2026
Demonstrations are gripping Tehran and other cities after a plunge in the Iranian rial. Soaring prices are creating a daily struggle there, as Nada Bashir reports.
December 30, 2025
Incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani will make history as the city's first mayor to take the oath of office on a Quran
December 31, 2025
Trump postpones tariff hikes on furniture, kitchen cabinets for a year
January 01, 2026
Japan’s prime minister joins female lawmakers in fight for more toilets in parliament
January 01, 2026
CIA assesses Ukraine was not targeting a Putin residence in drone attack, contrary to Kremlin claim, sources say
January 01, 2026
Former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers that the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without President Donald Trump
December 31, 2025
Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland
December 31, 2025
US military says at least eight killed in new strikes on alleged drug boats, with survivors abandoning ship
December 31, 2025
Trump administration terminates nonprofit’s control over DC golf courses in possible takeover bid
January 01, 2026
The U.S. military says it has struck five alleged drug-smuggling boats over two days
December 31, 2025
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon
December 31, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts pushes for judicial independence in history-heavy report
December 31, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts says that the Constitution remains a sturdy pillar for the country, a message that comes after a tumultuous year in the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court decisions on the horizon
December 31, 2025
Russia doubles down on claim of Ukrainian attack on Putin residence, but offers no concrete proof
December 29, 2025
The Trump administration has ordered another coal-fired power facility to remain open
December 31, 2025
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four firms in Venezuela's oil sector and designated four additional oil tankers as blocked property
December 31, 2025
House Judiciary Committee releases video and transcript of Jack Smith deposition
December 31, 2025
Two brothers who received illegal prison sentences that were years longer than the maximum penalty for their crimes have been granted clemency by Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves
December 31, 2025
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has "got wind in his sails" and a good shot at implementing his ambitious agenda.
December 30, 2025
Oil tanker pursued by US now has a Russian flag painted on its side
December 31, 2025
The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also expands the number of attorneys trying to comply with a law mandating their release
December 31, 2025
Democratic Rep. Morgan McGarvey joins The Lead.
December 21, 2025
Zohran Mamdani will become mayor of New York City as the clock ticks over into 2026 — but the celebrations are set to last through New Year’s Day
December 31, 2025
President Donald Trump has issued the first vetoes of his second term, rejecting two bipartisan natural resources bills
December 31, 2025
20-year-old college student from Iowa might be the youngest mayor in the United States
December 31, 2025
Cody Campbell is a billionaire supporter of Texas Tech, his alma mater
December 31, 2025
Ballots, tax returns and other important mail may not get postmarked the day you turn it in, Postal Service warns
December 31, 2025
Trump vetoes two bipartisan bills, marking first vetoes of second term
December 31, 2025
Russian drones have blasted apartment buildings and the power grid in Ukraine's city of Odesa, injuring six people including three children
December 31, 2025
Man charged with allegedly threatening Kennedy Center president
December 31, 2025
Iran’s ailing supreme leader resorts to his only playbook as crises mount and protests erupt
December 30, 2025
The longest-serving White House chief usher says presidents before Donald Trump were interested in having a larger space for entertaining too
December 31, 2025
President Donald Trump made a lot of tariff threats and trade promises this year
December 31, 2025
Thailand has repatriated 18 Cambodian prisoners of war
December 31, 2025
China’s People’s Liberation Army says it has “successfully completed” two days of military exercises in the waters off Taiwan
December 31, 2025
Democrat Renee Hardman has been elected to the Iowa state Senate in a holiday-week special election, denying Republicans’ bid to reclaim two-thirds control of the chamber
December 30, 2025
The CIA was behind a drone strike last week at a docking area believed to have been used by Venezuelan drug cartels
December 31, 2025
Actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. has died at age 71
December 31, 2025
The Trump administration has announced that it is freezing child care funds to Minnesota after a series of fraud schemes in recent years
December 30, 2025
Mali and Burkina Faso have banned U.S. citizens from entering their countries
December 31, 2025
Immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning it stands
December 30, 2025
The Kennedy Center is ending the year with a new round of artists saying they are canceling scheduled performances after President Donald Trump’s name was added to the facility
December 30, 2025
Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new limits starting Thursday on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits
December 30, 2025
Top DOJ officials may have been pressing to bring criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, judge says
December 30, 2025
Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died
December 30, 2025
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza
December 30, 2025
UAE says it will withdraw its remaining forces in Yemen after Saudi Arabia struck port city
December 30, 2025
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on 10 individuals and firms from Iran and Venezuela
December 30, 2025
The surge of federal officers this week in Minnesota follows new allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents
December 30, 2025
Roughly two dozen ISIS operatives killed or captured since US retaliatory strikes this month
December 30, 2025
A federal judge has ruled that the White House cannot stop funding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
December 30, 2025
Alleged DC pipe bomber appears at detention hearing as his attorneys argue he should be released from jail
December 30, 2025
Who is Nick Shirley, the 23-year-old MAGA journalist whose Minnesota fraud story went viral?
December 30, 2025
China's People's Liberation Army is conducting large-scale military drills around Taiwan as part of "Justice Mission 2025."
December 30, 2025
President Donald Trump’s second term has brought major changes to the Department of Health and Human Services
December 30, 2025
Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service, Russia’s Ministry of Defense says, as negotiators continue to search for a breakthrough in peace talks to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine
December 30, 2025
China stages war games around Taiwan after hitting out at major US arms deal
December 29, 2025
A look at Zohran Mamdani’s policy ideas as he becomes New York City’s mayor
December 30, 2025
Military families hit with bitter blow after Congress strips fertility treatment funding from defense bill
December 30, 2025
Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has died at 80, her political party has announced Tuesday
December 30, 2025
China’s top diplomat has slammed a record U.S. military sale to Taiwan
December 30, 2025
After two years of war, some Israelis are moving to the Gaza border while others are refusing. Here’s why
December 30, 2025
Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast
December 30, 2025
US strikes vessel in eastern Pacific, killing 2
December 29, 2025
A National Guard deployment in New Orleans authorized by President Donald Trump will begin Tuesday as part of a heavy security presence for New Year’s celebrations
December 30, 2025
A Utah judge has ordered the release of a transcript from a closed-door hearing in October over whether the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk must be shackled during court proceedings
December 29, 2025
Takeaways from Trump and Netanyahu’s meeting in Florida
December 30, 2025
The Court will decide several cases that could expand the president's power, making it one of the most significant terms in decades.
December 29, 2025
President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela
December 29, 2025
The U.S. military says it has conducted another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing two people
December 29, 2025
President Donald Trump is warning Iran against reconstituting its nuclear program
December 29, 2025
The Chinese military says it dispatched air, navy and missile units for a second day to conduct joint live-fire drills around Taiwan to warn against what it calls separatist and “external interference” forces
December 29, 2025
A federal judge has dismissed a criminal case against a popular Los Angeles TikTok streamer who is currently being held in immigration detention
December 29, 2025
Trump says US knocked out ‘big facility’ as part of Venezuela campaign
December 29, 2025
CNN's Jessica Dean talks to Col. Cedric Leighton about Russia's strikes on Kyiv and a peace deal in the making between Ukraine and Russia.
December 28, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump continues to claim he has ended eight wars this year, but that is exaggerated
December 29, 2025
The United States has announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance funding
December 29, 2025
The United States is offering Ukraine security guarantees for 15 years as part of a proposed peace plan
December 29, 2025
Iran is seeing its biggest protests in three years after the currency plunged to a record low against the dollar
December 29, 2025
More House seats are opening up as more members announce their upcoming departures
December 08, 2025
Buddhist monks on cross-country Walk for Peace arrive in Georgia
December 29, 2025
Americans in 1998 tried to predict 2025. Here’s what they got right
December 29, 2025
A political prisoner’s return to the UK was lauded by the government. Now ‘shocking’ tweets have sparked calls to deport him
December 29, 2025
Netanyahu brings a familiar message to Trump, who’s grown wary of Israeli actions
December 29, 2025
Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy?
December 29, 2025
Preliminary results of a snap parliamentary election in Kosovo shows that the party of Prime Minister Albin Kurti has won by a clear margin
December 28, 2025
CNN’s Rahel Solomon spoke to Nigerian foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar after President Donald Trump said he ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, whom he accused of persecuting Christians in the country.
December 25, 2025
Hawaii authorities are cracking down on illegal fireworks after a tragic explosion last New Year's Eve killed six people
December 29, 2025
Zohran Mamdani has promised to transform New York City government when he becomes mayor
December 29, 2025
The man accused of placing two pipe bombs in Washington on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol told investigators after his arrest that he believed someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed the 2020 election was stolen
December 29, 2025
President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are “closer than ever before” to a peace deal, but he acknowledges that negotiations could still break down and leave the war dragging on for years
December 28, 2025
Takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Zelensky in Florida
December 29, 2025
At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes on Syria’s coast
December 28, 2025
Winter rain has lashed the Gaza Strip and flooded camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by war try to stay dry in fraying tents
December 28, 2025
Myanmar’s military junta begins elections as civil war sparked by coup still rages
December 27, 2025
Zelensky and Trump to meet in Florida after weeks of intensive peace talks
December 28, 2025
Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia have started talks in China to address their border dispute
December 28, 2025
Protesting university students in Serbia have collected signatures throughout the country for their request for an early parliamentary election
December 28, 2025
Guineans were voting to elect a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup
December 28, 2025
The Central African Republic voted on Sunday to elect a new president and federal lawmakers
December 28, 2025
Voters in Myanmar have voted in the first phase of the country’s general election
December 27, 2025
Thailand and Cambodia have signed a ceasefire agreement to end weeks of fighting over border disputes
December 27, 2025
UK unveils paid armed forces ‘gap year’ for young people
December 28, 2025
Barefoot children played on chilly sand as Gaza’s thousands of displaced people prepared threadbare tents for another round of winter rain
December 27, 2025
Russia struck Ukraine's capital with missiles and drones in an attack that killed at least one person
December 27, 2025
A Brazilian judge has issued house arrest orders for 10 people involved in a plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in power after his 2022 election loss
December 27, 2025
Chuck Redd, the longtime host of the Kennedy Center’s annual Christmas Eve jazz performance said he canceled the concert following the board of trustees’ move to rename the facility for both the 35th president and President Donald Trump. CNN's Marshall Cohen reports.
December 25, 2025
The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen has warned it will respond immediately to any military movements of separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates that undermine de-escalation efforts in the south
December 27, 2025
These small-business owners will become uninsured after key ACA subsidies expire
December 27, 2025
A reform-minded mayor is taking over New York at a time of progress and stability for the NYPD
December 27, 2025
Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating
December 27, 2025
Comedian Mo Amer is gaining attention for his show “Mo,” which explores the journey of a Palestinian refugee family seeking asylum in the U.S. The series is part of a wave of TV shows by Arab or Muslim American creators that aim to tell authentic stories without relying on stereotypes
December 27, 2025
A mysterious group called Georgians for Integrity has spent around $5 million on television ads, mailers and texts attacking Lt. Gov. Burt Jones since November
December 27, 2025
Cambodia says that Thailand hit a site in the country's northwest with an airstrike on Saturday even as the two sides pursue talks to end clashes
December 26, 2025
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area
December 27, 2025
A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit
December 26, 2025
The president of the Kennedy Center is criticizing musician Chuck Redd for canceling a Christmas Eve performance
December 26, 2025
A federal judge has canceled the trial of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man mistakenly deported, and scheduled a hearing on whether the prosecution is being vindictive in its human smuggling case against him
December 26, 2025
Trump says US military struck ISIS terrorists in Nigeria
December 25, 2025
US contemplates sending more resources to forcibly board oil tanker near Venezuela
December 26, 2025
Trump says violence in Nigeria targets Christians. The reality is more nuanced
December 26, 2025
Karoline Leavitt announces she is pregnant with her second child
December 26, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he will meet on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida
December 26, 2025
Eight killed in Syria mosque explosion during Friday prayers
December 26, 2025
Separatists in southern Yemen are accusing Saudi Arabia of targeting their forces with airstrikes
December 26, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says several key issues remain unresolved in negotiations with the United States over a framework to end Russia’s war
December 26, 2025
The president’s party almost always loses seats in the midterms. More than two dozen Republican House members have already decided to retire.
December 26, 2025
After the crystal ball drops on New Year’s Eve in New York City, it will rise again, sparkling in red, white and blue
December 26, 2025
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and must pay 13.5 billion ringgit ($3.3 billion) for his role in the 1MDB corruption scandal
December 26, 2025
President Donald Trump says the U.S. launched a deadly strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country's government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians
December 25, 2025
On Christmas eve, President Trump speaks to children whose calls to NORAD to track Santa have been patched through to Mar-a-Lago.
December 24, 2025
South Korea’s government says it plans to end the waning foreign adoptions of Korean children
December 26, 2025
Myanmar will hold the first phase of a general election on Sunday, its first vote in five years and an election framed by the ruling military as a return to multi-party democracy
December 26, 2025
The Kremlin is in talks with French authorities about French scholar Laurent Vinatier, who is serving a three-year sentence in Russia and reportedly faces new espionage charges
December 25, 2025
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel takes aim at U.S. President Donald Trump in a message to U.K. viewers
December 25, 2025
DOJ says it has found over a million additional documents potentially related to Epstein
December 24, 2025
A Russian court has sentenced pro-war activist Sergei Udaltsov to six years in prison for justifying terrorism
December 25, 2025
Mariela Gómez and thousands of Venezuelan immigrants have faced a challenging Christmas after Donald Trump returned to the White House in January
December 25, 2025
Saudi Arabia has called on separatists in southern Yemen to withdraw from two governorates they now hold
December 25, 2025
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's family says he's underwent double hernia surgery at a hospital in the country's capital
December 25, 2025
Christmas celebrated once again in Bethlehem but West Bank suffering persists
December 25, 2025
King Charles III has urged people to focus on kindness instead of conflict in his annual Christmas address
December 25, 2025
King Charles urges courage and reconciliation in Christmas message
December 25, 2025
The Justice Department released a new batch of documents from Epstein investigation. President Donald Trump’s name is mentioned many times in the documents, including in references to flight records related to Epstein’s private plane. Authorities have not accused Trump of criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein and the DOJ said some of the materials include “untrue and sensationalist” claims about the president. CNN's Katelyn Polantz reports.
December 24, 2025
In first Christmas message, Pope Leo decries Palestinians in Gaza being forced to shelter in tents from ‘rain, wind and cold’
December 25, 2025
More House Republicans are leaving Congress to run for governor than in decades amid frustration over ‘toxic environment’
December 25, 2025
Three Palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Christmas tree and damaging a Nativity scene at a Catholic Church in the West Bank city of Jenin
December 25, 2025
Israel’s approval of new West Bank settlements condemned by 12 European countries, Canada and Japan
December 25, 2025
The son of a former Bangladesh prime minister has returned to the country after more than 17 years in exile
December 25, 2025
British socialite and onetime Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is back in the spotlight with the public release of investigative records that led to her 2021 sex trafficking conviction
December 25, 2025
Half a billion voters. One list. Just seven weeks to clean it up
December 25, 2025
North Korea displayed apparent progress in the construction of a nuclear-powered submarine, with state media photos showing a largely completed hull as leader Kim Jong Un condemned rival South Korea’s push to acquire the technology
December 25, 2025
Annual Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump’s name installed on Kennedy Center
December 25, 2025
Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura has won Honduras’ presidential election, according to electoral authorities
December 24, 2025
President Donald Trump marked Christmas Eve by chatting with children about their holiday wishes
December 24, 2025
Trump tells 10-year-old child he made sure ‘a bad Santa’ is not ‘infiltrating’ the US
December 24, 2025
Iran refuses inspection of nuclear sites until IAEA provides new guidelines after bombing
December 24, 2025
On Christmas Eve, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square and other Holy Land sites, after two years of subdued Christmas celebrations because of the war in Gaza
December 24, 2025
The American Academy of Pediatrics sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, seeking to block nearly $12 million in cuts to the group
December 24, 2025
The Justice Department says that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress
December 24, 2025
Rescuers braved shooting flames, falling debris and the threat of more explosions to save nursing home residents after a blast at a Pennsylvania facility killed a resident and employee, and set off a dramatic and chaotic evacuation
December 24, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he would be willing to withdraw troops from the country’s eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan to end Russia’s war, if Moscow also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces
December 24, 2025
An explosive device has detonated in Gaza and wounded one Israeli soldier, prompting Israel to accuse Hamas of violating the U.S.-brokered ceasefire
December 24, 2025
Community members bring Christmas dinner to families impacted my immigration crackdown
December 24, 2025
What we know about the Roseville couple facing murder charges after 7-year-old killed, 5-year-old hurt
December 24, 2025
Democratic-led states sue HHS over proposal targeting hospitals that offer transgender care to minors
December 24, 2025
A federal judge is halting the enforcement of a March presidential memorandum that revoked the security clearance of a prominent Washington attorney
December 24, 2025
A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House is charged in a complaint with federal firearms charges over the ambush on November 26 that fatally wounded one of the West Virginia National Guard members and seriously injured the second
December 24, 2025
The State Department is barring five Europeans it accuses of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints
December 23, 2025
Most Americans don’t think Trump or Democratic leaders are listening. Here’s what they wish they could tell Washington
December 24, 2025
Guineans are set to vote Sunday in their first presidential election since a military coup four years ago
December 24, 2025
Supreme Court’s National Guard decision could force new debate over how Trump could use Insurrection Act
December 24, 2025
‘It’s perpetuated this news cycle’: Frustration mounts in Trump’s orbit about messaging on latest Epstein documents
December 24, 2025
Libya’s army chief killed in plane crash in Turkey
December 23, 2025
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people
December 24, 2025
Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate
December 24, 2025
State Department imposes sanctions on former EU official, disinformation group leaders for ‘censorship’
December 23, 2025
Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says
December 24, 2025
Iran and the United States have reaffirmed their commitments to diplomacy at a contentious meeting of the U.N. Security Council
December 24, 2025
The Trump administration says it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year
December 23, 2025
President Donald Trump’s newly appointed envoy to Greenland says the Republican administration is looking to begin a conversation with residents of the semi-autonomous Danish territory about the best way forward for the strategically important island
December 23, 2025
The Supreme Court has refused to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area to support its immigration crackdown
December 23, 2025
DOJ says letter signed by ‘J. Epstein’ and referencing ‘our president’ is fake
December 23, 2025
A private jet carrying Libya’s military chief and four other military officers has crashed after takeoff from Turkey’s capital, Ankara, killing all on board
December 23, 2025
Venezuela's National Assembly has approved a measure criminalizing activities that hinder navigation and commerce, like the seizure of oil tankers
December 23, 2025
In major loss for Trump, Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago
December 23, 2025
Trump administration to start garnishing wages of defaulted student loan borrowers in January
December 23, 2025
Former Nebraska U.S. Senator Ben Sasse has announced his diagnosis of advanced pancreatic cancer
December 23, 2025
Rep. Harriet Hageman, who defeated Liz Cheney, announces run for Wyoming Senate seat
December 23, 2025
Email from ‘A’ at British royal family’s residence asked Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’
December 23, 2025
Yemen’s warring parties agree on biggest prisoner exchange deal so far
December 23, 2025
The oldest baby boomers are turning 80 in 2026
December 23, 2025
Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn’t seeking reelection
December 23, 2025
‘Massive’ Russian attack on Ukraine kills 4-year-old child, as Zelensky is briefed on peace talks
December 23, 2025
Yemen’s government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels have agreed to release 2,900 detainees in the largest swap during the 11-year civil war
December 23, 2025
‘It’s hard to be merry’: VA workers brace for more bad news as job cuts continue days before Christmas
December 23, 2025
Former Sen. Ben Sasse announces he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is ‘gonna die’
December 23, 2025
George Conway has filed paperwork to run for a congressional seat in New York City
December 23, 2025
In the 4 p.m. hour on Jan. 6, 2021, at the height of the fighting that day outside the U.S. Capitol, hundreds of rioters loyal to President Donald Trump had already breached several entrances and forced lawmakers to flee both the House and Senate, stopping the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory
December 23, 2025
Democratic lawmaker brings lawsuit challenging move to add Trump’s name to Kennedy Center
December 23, 2025
France's parliament has approved an emergency bill to prevent a government shutdown next week
December 23, 2025
A former close aide to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that immediately following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, he was ordered to figure out how the premier could evade responsibility for the security breach
December 23, 2025
Officials say Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday
December 23, 2025
Gaza’s tiny Palestinian Christian community is trying to capture some of the Christmas spirit under a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war
December 23, 2025
A video reviewed by CNN shows IDF soldiers shooting a teenager at point blank. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from Jerusalem.
December 21, 2025
The UK wants to scrap jury trials for many crimes. Opponents fear the loss of an ancient right
December 23, 2025
President Donald Trump has delivered a new warning to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
December 22, 2025
Sudan’s prime minister is proposing a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force
December 23, 2025
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must give legal due process to Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, either by providing court hearings or returning them to the U.S. Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to come up with a plan within two weeks
December 23, 2025
Trump says US remains in pursuit of oil tanker and it’d be ‘smart’ for Maduro to step down
December 22, 2025
U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many of Kyiv's demands, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
December 22, 2025
The Kansas City Chiefs have announced they will leave their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium for a new, domed stadium that will be built across the Kansas-Missouri state line and be ready for the start of the 2031 season
December 22, 2025
Florida's Catholic bishops have appealed to President Donald Trump to pause immigration enforcement during the Christmas holidays
December 22, 2025
President unveils new ‘Trump class’ fleet of battleships
December 22, 2025
The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon
December 22, 2025
The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights
December 22, 2025
Exclusive: One ‘Jane Doe’ tells CNN she is mortified that her name is unredacted multiple times in the Epstein files
December 22, 2025
The U.S. government has signed health deals with at least nine African countries
December 22, 2025
Deadly clashes erupt between Syrian army and Kurdish-led SDF amid integration talks
December 22, 2025
A judge has scolded Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence
December 22, 2025
A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and trying to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law
December 22, 2025
How Nicki Minaj went from Trump critic to the president’s biggest fan
December 22, 2025
Clashes have erupted between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters in the city of Aleppo
December 22, 2025
Four Illinois members of Congress have been allowed into a suburban Chicago immigration processing center that’s been at the forefront of an immigration crackdown
December 22, 2025
Lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan want the Justice Department to be prevented from steering an investigation of him and other former government officials to a “favored” judge in Florida who dismissed the classified documents case against President Donald Trump
December 22, 2025
What to know so far about the Justice Department’s release of Epstein files — and what questions remain
December 22, 2025
ICE agents in Twin Cities open fire after an undocumented man allegedly hit them with his SUV
December 22, 2025
Attendees at "AmericaFest," Turning Point USA's annual gathering of young conservatives, were divided on the organization's CEO, Erika Kirk's endorsement of JD Vance for president in 2028. CNN's Steve Contorno reports.
December 22, 2025
The leaders of Denmark and Greenland are insisting that the U.S. won’t take over Greenland after President Donald Trump announced the appointment of a special envoy to the semi-autonomous territory
December 22, 2025
A court in Ecuador has sentenced eleven soldiers to 34 years in prison for the abduction and torture of four children last year
December 22, 2025
Hours before airtime on Sunday, CBS News' “60 Minutes” held a planned story on President Donald Trump's deportation policy at the order of the network's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025
Inside the Bari Weiss decision that led to a ‘60 Minutes’ crisis
December 22, 2025
A car bomb has killed a Russian general
December 22, 2025
Trump administration removes dozens of career diplomats from overseas posts
December 22, 2025
Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug users and referring them to treatment
December 22, 2025
CBS shelves ‘60 Minutes’ story on Trump deportees at the last minute: ‘People are threatening to quit,’ staffers say
December 22, 2025
China has announced provisional tariffs of up to 42.7% on dairy products imported from the European Union
December 22, 2025
Thailand’s foreign minister says Thailand and Cambodia will resume talks to work toward a more durable ceasefire along their border
December 22, 2025
US pursuing another tanker ship near Venezuela amid Trump blockade
December 21, 2025
A soaked tent or a bombed-out ruin: Gazans face a grim choice this winter
December 22, 2025
President Donald Trump has announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the U.S. needs to take over
December 22, 2025
Rapper Nicki Minaj has made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona
December 21, 2025
Vice President JD Vance says the conservative movement should welcome anyone who loves America
December 21, 2025
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has accused President Donald Trump of playing “political games” after the Trump administration denied disaster declaration requests made by the state
December 22, 2025
The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities
December 21, 2025
White House pushes Smithsonian to comply with review to receive federal funding
December 21, 2025
Israeli soldiers shot and killed a West Bank teen they say ‘hurled a block.’ Video shows them shooting him point blank
December 21, 2025
The U.S. Coast Guard is pursuing another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea
December 21, 2025
Turning Point exposed a brewing MAGA civil war. Can JD Vance unite it?
December 21, 2025
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has been drawn back into the foreign policy fold like he was during Trump's first term
December 21, 2025
The US struck multiple targets in Syria on Friday that the US military tied to ISIS as retaliation for the recent attack against American troops there that killed two service members, according to two US officials.
December 19, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is defending the Justice Department’s decision to release just a fraction of the Jeffrey Epstein files by the congressionally mandated deadline
December 21, 2025
A White House envoy says he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine
December 21, 2025
Israel’s far-right finance minister says the Cabinet has approved 19 new Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank
December 21, 2025
‘We are still here.’ Catholic patriarch leads Christmas Mass at Gaza church bombed by Israel during the war
December 21, 2025
Grappling with its worst drought in a century, Iraq bets on a controversial oil-for-water deal
December 21, 2025
Hasan Piker wants to stream less in 2026
December 21, 2025
Already thinking about the 2028 election? You’re not alone
December 21, 2025
Thousands of mourners have gathered at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to mark a week since two gunmen targeted a Jewish festival, killing 15 people
December 21, 2025
Turning Point USA's AmericaFest convention has been marked by internal feuds among conservative figures
December 21, 2025
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released
December 20, 2025
U.S. forces have stopped a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in international waters
December 20, 2025
President Donald Trump says he’s endorsing Nassau County’s Republican executive for governor in next fall’s New York race
December 20, 2025
Brazil's President Lula da Silva hopes the Mercosur-EU free-trade deal will be signed in January, after it was delayed on Friday
December 20, 2025
Armed gangs are vying to fill the vacuum left by Hamas in Israeli-occupied Gaza
December 20, 2025
The Australian state of New South Wales is proposing a ban on public displays of Islamic State group flags and extremist symbols
December 20, 2025
Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world’s cardinals for meetings to help him govern the church, marking the unofficial start of his pontificate
December 20, 2025
Jordan confirms its air force joined U.S. strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria
December 20, 2025
Idalia Bisbal moved from New York City to Allentown, Pennsylvania, hoping for a cheaper life
December 20, 2025
A Pakistani court has convicted former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, sentencing them to 17 years in prison
December 20, 2025
The U.N. Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Congo and extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo for a year
December 20, 2025
Luigi Mangione’s lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to seek the death penalty against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer’s parent company
December 20, 2025
The Trump administration has restricted visas for two leftist Honduran election officials, citing interference in the Central American country’s special vote count
December 20, 2025
Trump talks about neuroses, selecting chairs and his wife’s underwear drawer in latest affordability speech
December 20, 2025
Even though Belarus has released dozens of prisoners, those who've been freed say the authoritarian government often delivers one final act of repression by confiscating their passports before deporting them
December 20, 2025
The Department of Justice has published thousands of its files related to Jeffrey Epstein
December 20, 2025
Newly released files from the Justice Department investigation into Jeffrey Epstein include several photos of former President Bill Clinton
December 20, 2025
The Department of Justice has released some of its records related to its investigations of Jeffrey Epstein
December 19, 2025
Lawmakers across the U.S. will be debating whether to adopt new federal tax breaks for tips, overtime and business expenses
December 19, 2025
Life changed for Jews in Australia this week. Will it ever be the same?
December 20, 2025
US conducts strikes in Syria in response to attack that killed two American soldiers
December 19, 2025
The Justice Department has released thousands of files about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the incomplete document dump Friday did not break significant ground about the long-running criminal investigations of the financier or his ties to wealthy and powerful individuals
December 19, 2025
Call for election reforms was ‘culmination’ of Trump’s January 6 speech, DOJ attorney argues in court
December 19, 2025
Two decades after Jeffrey Epstein was first reported to police, the Justice Department has started to publicly release investigative files on the late sex offender and his longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell
December 19, 2025
The president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation says she trusts the Trump-appointed chairman of a federal planning commission to do his job and seriously review President Donald Trump's proposal to build a ballroom at the White House
December 19, 2025
Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress
December 19, 2025
Elise Stefanik ends her short-lived bid for New York governor and won’t seek reelection to House
December 19, 2025
A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court after earlier finding that the electoral map used to select justices violated the Voting Rights Act
December 19, 2025
A local Gaza hospital says Israeli troops have fired over the ceasefire line in the northern Gaza Strip, killing at least five Palestinians, including a baby
December 19, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now charge Medicaid what they charge in other developed countries
December 19, 2025
The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa
December 19, 2025
It’s been a grim week at the end of a tough year for the United Nations: Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack in Sudan
December 19, 2025
Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress
December 19, 2025
The Kennedy Center has added President Donald Trump's name to the memorial that Congress created for John F. Kennedy
December 19, 2025
Trump announces ‘Most Favored Nation’ deals with nine drug companies and plans to meet with insurers next
December 19, 2025
The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the U.S. through the diversity immigrant visa program
December 19, 2025
Seven Colombian soldiers killed in guerrilla attack with drones and explosives, military says
December 19, 2025
Young women who have grown emboldened in their conservative beliefs are attending the annual conference held by Turning Point USA
December 19, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hopeful but clear about the challenges facing the Trump administration’s Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts
December 19, 2025
Supreme Court revives free speech lawsuit from immigration judges in loss for Trump
December 19, 2025
Man extradited from Texas to face 16 child sex abuse charges in California
December 19, 2025
Attorneys for President Donald Trump have urged a federal judge to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election
December 19, 2025
The Trump administration is appealing a federal judge’s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University
December 19, 2025
Kennedy Center gets new signage bearing Trump’s name
December 19, 2025
The world’s leading authority on food crises says the spread of famine’s been averted in the Gaza Strip
December 19, 2025
A U.S. Army Reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum at a high rate out of step with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals
December 19, 2025
The Kansas City Chiefs are close to moving from Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri to a new stadium in Kansas
December 19, 2025
Why the US is targeting the diversity visa lottery and what it means for applicants
December 19, 2025
Erika Kirk, the widow of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and current CEO of the conservative youth group, endorsed the potential presidential bid of Vice President JD Vance in the 2028 election
December 19, 2025
Bolivia's largest cities La Paz and Santa Cruz have been brought to a standstill as public transportation workers strike against a 100% fuel price increase ordered by the new government
December 19, 2025
A new AP-NORC poll finds that Americans are more likely to prioritize health care than they were last year
December 19, 2025
What Peter Arnett asked Osama bin Laden
December 18, 2025
Black Americans and white nationalists have joined forces in the past. And a number of cultural and political shifts have broadened Fuentes’ appeal to Americans of all races.
December 19, 2025
President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Moscow’s troops are advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and has voiced confidence that the Kremlin will achieve its goals militarily if Kyiv doesn't agree to Russia’s conditions in peace talks
December 19, 2025
The Ukrainian and Polish presidents have met in Warsaw to emphasize unity against Russia and progress on historical reconciliation
December 19, 2025
European Union leaders have agreed to provide Ukraine with a massive interest-free loan to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years
December 19, 2025
Officials from 70% of Michigan’s 1,856 cities, villages, counties and townships completed the survey.
December 19, 2025
Washington, D.C., activists and local leaders say the law enforcement operation President Donald Trump launched four months ago with the goal of fighting crime has led to a crackdown on immigrants
December 19, 2025
Congress leaves town until 2026, letting enhanced Obamacare tax credits expire in two weeks
December 19, 2025
Danish authorities say Russia carried out cyberattacks against Denmark's infrastructure and websites in 2024 and 2025
December 19, 2025
Trump debuted a new affordability script. It’s unclear to advisers whether he’ll stick to it
December 19, 2025
Angry protesters have stormed the offices of Bangladesh’s two leading newspapers after news reached the country from Singapore of the death of a prominent activist in last year’s political uprising, who was shot by an assailant a week ago
December 18, 2025
Conservative influencers clashed at Turning Point USA's annual youth conference over the future of President Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement
December 18, 2025
Frustrations mount among survivors about House Democrats’ selective releases of Epstein files and photos
December 19, 2025
Australian PM announces gun buy-back plan, day of reflection following Bondi Beach shooting
December 19, 2025
President Donald Trump’s “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers off Venezuela’s coast is raising new concerns about the legality of his military campaign in Latin America
December 18, 2025
The U.S. military says that it conducted two more strikes Thursday against boats it said were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people
December 19, 2025
References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols “potentially divisive” have been removed
December 19, 2025
The European Commission says the European Union is delaying a massive free-trade deal with South American countries after fiery protests by farmers and last-minute opposition by France and Italy
December 18, 2025
One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes
December 18, 2025
A Kansas tribe said it has walked away from a nearly $30 million federal contract to come up with preliminary designs for immigrant detention centers after facing a wave of online criticism
December 18, 2025
Nebraska plans to be the first state to implement new work requirements for some Medicaid recipients
December 17, 2025
Eileen Higgins has been sworn in as Miami's first female mayor, taking office two weeks after defeating a Trump-endorsed Republican
December 18, 2025
A top Zohran Mamdani appointee resigns due to old antisemitic posts
December 18, 2025
European Union leaders have stalled in talks about providing a massive loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets
December 18, 2025
A man accused of setting a woman on fire on a Chicago train last month has been indicted on an additional charge alleging he attempted to set City Hall on fire days before the train attack
December 18, 2025
The U.S. military has amassed an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast of Venezuela since this summer, when the Trump administration first began to shift assets to the region as part of its anti-drug trafficking operations
December 18, 2025
Florida’s Supreme Court has upheld a state law allowing nonunanimous juries to sentence people to death
December 18, 2025
The U.S. Justice Department has sued three states and the District of Columbia for not turning over requested voter information to the Trump administration
December 18, 2025
The “Warrior Dividend” that President Donald Trump announced Wednesday is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president appeared to suggest during his televised address to the nation
December 18, 2025
A federal judge has denied a request to close an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”
December 18, 2025
Los Angeles Rams receiver Puka Nacua’s tumultuous Thursday started with an apology, and ended with more controversial remarks
December 18, 2025
Tennessee’s governor has pardoned country music star Jelly Roll, a Nashville native who for years has spoken about his criminal record and his path to finding redemption
December 18, 2025
Trump signs executive order expediting marijuana reclassification after lobbying from cannabis industry
December 18, 2025
More photos from Epstein’s estate released by House Democrats as deadline to release DOJ files looms
December 18, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug
December 18, 2025
Kennedy Center board votes to rename it ‘Trump Kennedy Center’
December 18, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson has stayed on message that a Republican health care package will help all Americans and not just those on Affordable Care Act plans
December 18, 2025
Glendale neighbors rally against hate after local man named in neo-Nazi demonstration
December 18, 2025
A judge in Miami has dismissed a complaint challenging a college’s decision to gift prime downtown real estate for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library
December 18, 2025
Exclusive: Frustration mounts at Justice Department as it races to redact some Epstein files, sources say
December 18, 2025
A commission formed to document alleged harassment and abuse by federal agents amid an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area has focused its first public hearing on the wide use of chemical agents
December 18, 2025
President Donald Trump’s key peace envoy will host new Gaza talks with Arab and Muslim officials on Friday in Miami, a State Department official tells the AP
December 18, 2025
House Democrats have released several dozen more photos from the estate of the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
December 18, 2025
Trump repurposing money earmarked for troop housing for ‘warrior dividend’ bonuses
December 18, 2025
Judiciary offices don’t have to turn over records to Trump-aligned group, judge rules
December 18, 2025
Trump moves to ban transgender care for minors by targeting hospitals
December 18, 2025
Democrats will not release the ‘autopsy’ of their 2024 presidential loss
December 18, 2025
Three governments that were central in South Sudan’s peace process have urged leaders to end renewed fighting and focus on implementing the peace agreement that ended a deadly conflict
December 18, 2025
Justice Department tried to bring a third felony charge against Letitia James
December 18, 2025
Jack Smith didn’t invoke Fifth Amendment during 8 hours of testimony, GOP committee chairman says
December 18, 2025
Trump administration sanctions two more International Criminal Court judges for investigating Israel
December 18, 2025
Zohran Mamdani can claim multiple firsts when he becomes New York’s mayor Jan. 1
December 18, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration has imposed sanctions on two more International Criminal Court judges over their role in investigating Israeli officials for possible war crimes
December 18, 2025
A Mexican drug cartel member accused of faking his death to avoid capture has been sentenced to more than 11 years in U.S. prison
December 18, 2025
Eileen Higgins won a hard-fought election to become Miami’s new mayor. Now for the hard part – governing the city.
December 18, 2025
Finland's government is facing a backlash after its representative for the 2025 Miss Universe pageant, Sarah Dzafce, was seen pulling the corners of her eyes in a viral photo
December 18, 2025
Israel has carried out airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon
December 18, 2025
Hundreds of mourners have gathered in Sydney for the funeral of a 10-year-old girl killed in an antisemitic massacre during a Hanukkah celebration
December 18, 2025
Hero cop hailed, youngest Bondi shooting victim laid to rest
December 18, 2025
Thailand has conducted more airstrikes on Cambodia, targeting a warehouse storing rockets
December 18, 2025
Burkina Faso has released 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel detained after an emergency landing
December 18, 2025
The U.N. Human Rights Office says in a new report that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces on Sudan's largest displacement camp
December 18, 2025
Fact check: Trump repeats numerous false claims in prime-time address
December 18, 2025
India’s Parliament has approved new legislation to open the civil nuclear power sector to private companies
December 18, 2025
U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell by 13,000 last week, remaining in the same historically healthy range of the past few years even as concerns grow about the health of the labor market
December 18, 2025
President Donald Trump's administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion, including medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones
December 18, 2025
The United States has announced it will resume nuclear testing if other countries do the same
December 18, 2025
It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation
December 18, 2025
DHS rolled out a new plane. Here’s why it might look familiar
December 18, 2025
Trump has vowed to strike Venezuela ‘soon’ for months
December 18, 2025
In a close 2025 defeat, Democrats see the beginnings of a 2026 red-state surprise
December 18, 2025
Lawler and three other House Republicans bucked their party to join with Democrats and force a vote on a three-year extension of Obamacare subsidies.
December 17, 2025
Rockets, howitzers and suicide drones: US and Taiwan announce one of their biggest-ever arms deals
December 18, 2025
Troops will receive $1,776 checks before Christmas, Trump announces
December 18, 2025
India’s air-quality crisis is deepened by unreliable data
December 18, 2025
The U.S. military says it attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing four people
December 18, 2025
President Donald Trump is demanding Venezuela pay for assets that Trump says were stolen from U.S. companies when the South American country nationalized its oil industry years ago
December 17, 2025
US government admits Army and air traffic controller failures in deadly midair collision near DC
December 17, 2025
Venezuela’s Maduro says Trump’s comments on land and oil reveal his true motives
December 18, 2025
A U.S. senator says she's pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have “backtracked” on a commitment to ensure that swastikas and nooses are considered hate symbols and prohibited from being displayed
December 18, 2025
House passes bill criminalizing gender-affirming care for minors
December 18, 2025
House GOP passes narrow health care package, with key Obamacare subsidies set to expire
December 17, 2025
Dan Bongino plans to step down as FBI deputy director in January
December 17, 2025
The House has rejected a pair of resolutions that would put a check on President Donald Trump’s power to use military force against drug cartels and the nation of Venezuela
December 17, 2025
Israeli PM Netanyahu announces $35 billion gas deal with Egypt as US pushes for summit
December 17, 2025
Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell launches Hail Mary bid to wipe away her conviction
December 17, 2025
Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries
December 17, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's announced blockade on sanctioned Venezuelan oil could lead to shortages of food, fuel, and other basic goods in the Latin American nation
December 17, 2025
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir “Nobody's Girl” has sold 1 million copies worldwide just two months after its release
December 16, 2025
A federal judge in the nation’s capital has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing policies limiting Congress members’ access to immigration detention facilities
December 17, 2025
Jared Isaacman confirmed as NASA chief after monthslong tug-of-war
December 17, 2025
New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill
December 17, 2025
Judge blocks ICE policy restricting congressional oversight visits
December 17, 2025
South Africa briefly held US government personnel on refugee assignment amid fraught relationship
December 16, 2025
Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care
December 17, 2025
Obamacare enrollees: Worried about losing the enhanced subsidies? Share your story
October 26, 2025
New plaques on Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ offer pointed descriptions of predecessors
December 17, 2025
Stumbles in the search for a Brown University shooter led to the wrong man
December 17, 2025
The Trump administration is moving to dissolve the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado
December 17, 2025
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame
December 17, 2025
Senate sends Trump annual defense policy bill without changes to address bipartisan concerns on aircraft safety
December 17, 2025
Four moderate House Republicans have broken ranks with Speaker Mike Johnson by supporting a Democratic petition to extend health care subsidies set to expire at the end of the year
December 17, 2025
Israel’s military says troops fired a mortar shell into a Palestinian residential area in the Gaza Strip, in the latest incident to rock the tenuous ceasefire with Hamas
December 17, 2025
McBride says Republicans are ‘obsessed with trans people’ as bills restricting youth access to gender care come to a vote
December 17, 2025
GOP centrists choose nuclear option in fight with Mike Johnson over Obamacare
December 17, 2025
Jack Smith testifies in closed-door hearing that it was his decision to charge Trump, according to testimony obtained by CNN
December 17, 2025
A Second Amendment clash has erupted between the federal government and the U.S. Virgin Islands
December 17, 2025
A federal appeals court says the National Guard deployment in the nation's capital can continue for now
December 17, 2025
Machado has left Oslo after the Nobel Prize ceremony, her spokesman says
December 17, 2025
Putin rejects compromise on Ukraine despite Trump’s push for peace
December 17, 2025
A congressional report says China exploits partnerships with U.S. researchers to give its military access to nuclear technology and other innovations with economic and national security applications
December 17, 2025
Italy has signaled it might not support a major trade deal between the EU and South American countries
December 17, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin is warning that Moscow will extend its gains in Ukraine if Kyiv and its Western allies reject the Kremlin's demands in peace talks
December 17, 2025
Here’s what’s in the House GOP health care bill
December 15, 2025
The Trump administration is rewriting the 80-year-old American social contract for science research.
December 17, 2025
Spanish police have evicted orders to clear an abandoned school building where around 400 migrants were living in a squat north of Barcelona
December 17, 2025
The British government says it has given Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich a final chance to hand over 2.5 billion pounds or $3.25 billion to the victims of Russia's war in Ukraine
December 17, 2025
Should all points of view be heard from? Defending certain values and ideas makes it a bit more complicated than simply listening to all sides.
December 17, 2025
Although thousands of Americans embraced fascist ideas during the interwar years, a new study examines why the US has had little appetite to remember that past.
December 17, 2025
Border Patrol attack revealed in messages sent by person arrested in Louisiana, records show
December 17, 2025
The conversation around #iwasfifteen sheds light on the dynamics of abusive relationships and the experiences of trafficking victims.
December 17, 2025
64-year-old woman accused in Bellevue shooting that injured two people will go to trial
December 17, 2025
MTG engaged to pro-Trump punditDescriptionRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) announced her engagement to Brian Glenn, a pro-Trump pundit who works for the far-right news network, Real America’s Voice.
December 16, 2025
South African immigration authorities have raided a United States refugee processing center in Johannesburg and seven Kenyans working there illegally were arrested and given deportation orders
December 17, 2025
Susie Wiles offered unflattering assessments of her colleagues to Vanity Fair. In return, they showered her with praise
December 17, 2025
European Union leaders are about to attempt something unprecedented
December 17, 2025
In wake of Syria attack that killed two US soldiers, Trump faces complicated ally and echoes of Afghanistan
December 17, 2025
What to know about the upcoming Epstein files release
December 17, 2025
Voters are mad about utility bills. Republicans are blaming some in their own party
December 17, 2025
An accused gunman in Sydney’s Bondi Beach massacre has been charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals for the victims
December 17, 2025
Norman Podhoretz, a leading neo-conservative and the former editor of Commentary magazine, has died
December 17, 2025
President Donald Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro
December 16, 2025
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Syrian-Australian tobacco shop owner, has become a national hero in Australia, with an online fundraiser for him raising millions of dollars
December 16, 2025
Candace Owens won’t take back conspiracies about Charlie Kirk’s death after meeting with Erika Kirk
December 17, 2025
Trump orders ‘total and complete blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers coming to and leaving Venezuela
December 17, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene warns the ‘dam is breaking’ in the GOP and slams Trump for being tone deaf on multiple issues
December 17, 2025
President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are back on Capitol Hill as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela
December 16, 2025
House GOP leaders plow ahead with plan that will allow Obamacare subsidies to lapse
December 17, 2025
Rob Reiner’s son Nick Reiner has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents
December 16, 2025
A federal judge in Washington says he's inclined to deny a preservationist group's request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump's ballroom project
December 16, 2025
Trump expected to sign executive order reclassifying marijuana, easing restrictions on the drug
December 17, 2025
The Trump administration has announced an expansion of travel restrictions to include 20 more countries
December 16, 2025
The U.S. Capitol has begun displaying a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school
December 16, 2025
Federal judge indicates he won’t halt the White House ballroom project
December 16, 2025
Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore
December 16, 2025
A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health
December 16, 2025
According to the US Southern Command, the US military launched three more strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign aimed at curtailing narcotics trafficking to the US.
December 16, 2025
Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona says the Pentagon’s escalating investigation into his plea to troops to refuse unlawful orders is part of an effort to silence dissent within the military
December 16, 2025
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defending Donald Trump's second presidency in a series of interviews published Tuesday
December 16, 2025
Pentagon launches new phase of probe into Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video
December 16, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean
December 16, 2025
UN and Palestinians warn West Bank demolitions could permanently displace hundreds
December 16, 2025
President Donald Trump will go to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert
December 16, 2025
The Trump administration has designated another Latin American drug cartel as a foreign terrorist group, increasing financial pressure on its members and opening the door to potential military action against them
December 16, 2025
Texas is suing the utility company whose downed power lines sparked the largest wildfire in state history
December 16, 2025
Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles says president ‘has an alcoholic’s personality’ and much more in candid interviews
December 16, 2025
Exclusive: House Judiciary Committee expands Jack Smith probe
December 16, 2025
Full video showing follow-up strike on alleged drug boat won’t be released to the public, Hegseth says
December 16, 2025
Speaker Mike Johnson battles with GOP centrists over expiring health care subsidies
December 16, 2025
Trump says Ukraine peace deal is ‘closer than ever’ after Berlin talks, but is it? Here are the key sticking points
December 16, 2025
Former Kenosha County supervisor facing charges for mishandling charity money, drugs
December 16, 2025
The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports
December 16, 2025
Unemployment rate hit a four-year high last month
December 16, 2025
US Sen. Mark Kelly correctly articulated military law when he said service members have a duty to not obey unlawful orders, according to a military law scholar.
December 16, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says peace proposals for U.S. officials to present to Russia could be finalized within days
December 16, 2025
Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet amid an escalating feud over Charlie Kirk’s assassination
December 16, 2025
Artist Theaster Gates will create a monumental ode to Black beauty at the Obama Presidential Center
December 16, 2025
France's first lady has defended her use of a sexist slur against feminist protesters
December 16, 2025
European Union envoys are fine-tuning a plan to use frozen Russian assets as collateral for a massive loan to support Ukraine over the next two years
December 16, 2025
NBA Cup faces pressure to terminate its partnership with Emirates over UAE’s alleged role in Sudan crisis
December 16, 2025
Trump administration takes its economic message to Pennsylvania again as Vance heads to swing state
December 16, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and 34 other countries have formally approved plans to create a compensation body for damages caused by Russia's invasion
December 16, 2025
European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump
December 16, 2025
US military strikes 3 more boats in the Pacific Ocean, killing 8
December 16, 2025
Chile has become the latest country in Latin America to veer toward the right, electing a deeply conservative veteran politician who has long attracted comparisons to Donald Trump
December 15, 2025
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz wants restrictions on military flights approved before government funding runs out at the end of next month to prevent another midair collision like the one near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people in January
December 16, 2025
House Oversight chair offers Clintons new deposition dates in Epstein investigation, threatens contempt if they don’t comply
December 16, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a significant issue in the Trump administration's immigration policies
December 15, 2025
California is hiring former senior Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials to help launch a public health initiative in response to the Trump administration's changes to health guidance
December 15, 2025
White House is considering reclassifying marijuana to ease restrictions on the drug
December 15, 2025
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about aviation safety
December 15, 2025
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons
December 15, 2025
Trump signs executive order to classify illicit fentanyl as weapon of mass destruction
December 15, 2025
Prosecutors played audio recordings to show jurors that a Wisconsin judge knew what was at stake when she directed an immigrant to a private door while federal agents were in the courthouse to arrest him
December 15, 2025
Silk Eyes races past Mr. Thunder at the top of the stretch, thrilling the crowd at a racetrack in Venezuela’s capital
December 15, 2025
Australian leaders have promised to immediately overhaul already-tough gun control laws after a mass shooting targeted a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach
December 15, 2025
In a first, Ukraine says it struck Russian submarine in Black Sea port with underwater drones
December 15, 2025
Pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai would devote himself to God and his family rather than political activism if he were released
December 15, 2025
The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group in Syria have been identified
December 15, 2025
A congressional committee's report says the police chief in Washington, D.C., pressured subordinates to manipulate department data to artificially lower the city’s crime rates
December 15, 2025
U.S. officials say Washington has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia’s nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend
December 15, 2025
The government of Trinidad and Tobago says it will allow the U.S. military access to its airports in upcoming weeks as tensions between the United States and Venezuela remain high
December 15, 2025
Jimmy Lai, the former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, has been convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court
December 15, 2025
Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty in landmark national security trial, faces possible life sentence
December 15, 2025
The Colombian government’s delegation in peace talks with the National Liberation Army or ELN has rejected an “armed strike” that the Marxist rebel group is conducting this week in response to the U.S. military’s naval buildup in the Caribbean
December 15, 2025
Ryan Routh, convicted of attempting to assassinate former President Donald Trump, has decided to use an attorney for his sentencing
December 15, 2025
Trump says end to Ukraine war closer than ever, but US officials caution security guarantee offers won’t last forever
December 15, 2025
Officials suspect a father and son of killing 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where gun violence is rare
December 15, 2025
A Wisconsin judge has ruled there is enough evidence to proceed to trial in a felony forgery case against an attorney and an aide to President Donald Trump for their role in the 2020 fake elector scheme
December 15, 2025
FBI arrests four people it says were planning to detonate pipe bombs on New Year’s Eve in California
December 15, 2025
Nativity scenes at some churches are sparking fierce debates
December 12, 2025
A group of students and professors in Alabama is appealing a state law that bans diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in public schools
December 15, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminatory reasons
December 15, 2025
France is creating a last-minute hurdle for a major trade deal between the European Union and the Mercosur bloc
December 15, 2025
Trump and Biden have issued pardons at a faster clip than their predecessors. Many of their decisions appear to have been political or personal in nature.
December 15, 2025
Serbia’s prosecutor for organized crime has charged a government minister and three others with abuse of position and falsifying of documents related to a luxury real estate project linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner
December 15, 2025
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest have announced a final list of 35 countries that will take part in the glitzy pop-music gala next year
December 15, 2025
Gunmen targeted Australia’s Jewish community in a deadly mass shooting. Here’s what we know
December 14, 2025
The Islamic State group and other militant organizations are experimenting with artificial intelligence as a tool to boost recruitment and refine their operations
December 15, 2025
A Hong Kong court convicted pro-democracy former media mogul Jimmy Lai of conspiracies to commit sedition and collusion with foreign forces in a case that marks how much the semi-autonomous Chinese city has changed since Beijing began a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent five years ago
December 14, 2025
Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr lamented that he was again speaking about gun violence before a game in Portland seven years after he addressed the horrific mass shooting in Parkland, Florida
December 15, 2025
A Hanukkah celebration on warm summer's evening at Sydney's Bondi Beach became a scene of horror on Sunday when gunmen opened fire, causing chaos and fear
December 15, 2025
House Oversight Committee report alleges DC police chief manipulated crime data
December 14, 2025
Congress races against the clock to avert skyrocketing health care costs for millions
December 14, 2025
Police in Rhode Island say they have a person of interest in custody after a shooting at Brown University killed two students and wounded nine others
December 14, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed willingness to drop Ukraine's NATO bid in exchange for Western security guarantees
December 14, 2025
A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump’s choice for Federal Reserve chair says he would present the president’s views to Fed officials for their consideration but they could reject them if they chose when making decisions on interest rates
December 14, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski has been released from a Belarusian prison after more than four years
December 14, 2025
Jim Sciutto talks to Bryan Stern, who helped exfiltrate Venezuelan opposition
December 13, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an attack on a Hanukkah celebration at a Sydney beach that killed at least 11 people an act of antisemitism and terrorism
December 14, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has criticized Australia's leader, linking calls for a Palestinian state to rising antisemitism
December 14, 2025
Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court has ratified the final results of last month’s parliamentary elections
December 14, 2025
Hamas has confirmed the death of a top commander in Gaza, a day after Israel said it had killed Raed Saad in a strike outside Gaza City
December 14, 2025
More redistricting bad news for Republicans: Texas may not net five GOP seats like they planned
December 14, 2025
Brian Jack is a first-term Republican congressman from Georgia, but he's become a key figure in the Oval Office
December 14, 2025
Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party has voted to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism
December 14, 2025
Kaitlan Collins and Wolf Blitzer report on the photos newly released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
December 12, 2025
Thailand's government reports a rocket attack from Cambodia on Sunday killed a 63-year-old villager
December 14, 2025
Navy has beaten Army for a second straight season
December 13, 2025
Israel approves 19 settler outposts in major expansion in occupied West Bank
December 13, 2025
Moscow pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure with drone and missile strikes and Kyiv launched a deadly strike of its own on southwestern Russia, a day before talks involving senior European and U.S. officials aimed at ending the war were set to resume
December 13, 2025
Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison
December 13, 2025
As DOJ seeks to recharge Comey, judge deprives prosecutors from accessing key evidence for now
December 13, 2025
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation that was uprooted from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s is facing widespread outrage over plans to profit from another forced removal
December 13, 2025
More than a million without power in Ukraine regions after intense Russian strikes
December 13, 2025
Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions
November 09, 2025
Fighting is raging along the Thailand-Cambodia border, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's claim of a new ceasefire agreement
December 13, 2025
Democrats want to win back Congress. First they need to weather their primary battles
December 13, 2025
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado has told CNN that the US government is preparing for a democratic transition of power in her native Venezuela. Speaking after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Machado said she stands ready to step up as Venezuela’s vice president as the country enters this “new and challenging era.”
December 12, 2025
President Donald Trump says Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes
December 12, 2025
Fighting along the Thai-Cambodian border has forced hundreds of thousands of Thai villagers to flee since Monday
December 13, 2025
Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones has launched his campaign for Alabama governor
December 13, 2025
The federal government continues to find states improperly issuing commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that remain valid after their authorization to be in the country expires, putting millions of dollars of funding at risk
December 12, 2025
The Senate failed to get anywhere on health care this week
December 12, 2025
The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee is threatening contempt of Congress proceedings against Bill and Hillary Clinton
December 12, 2025
President Donald Trump says he hasn’t seen the photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate released Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, but says they are not a big deal
December 12, 2025
House GOP unveils narrow health care package with key deadline looming
December 12, 2025
Department of Labor hosts first-ever prayer service, including a message from a right-wing rabbi
December 12, 2025
The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March
December 12, 2025
The U.S. has removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list
December 12, 2025
President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project
December 12, 2025
A pair of lawsuits seeking to redraw congressional boundary lines that currently favor Republicans in Wisconsin are on track to be resolved after the 2026 midterms
December 12, 2025
U.N. experts warn that the treason trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president is further eroding a 2018 peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir
December 12, 2025
The Indiana Senate on Thursday voted down a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to produce two more GOP-friendly seats, rejecting President Donald Trump’s months-long campaign to pressure the Republican supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will.
December 11, 2025
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced $350 million in funding for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby
December 12, 2025
Commander in charge of US military operations in the Caribbean retires after clashes with Hegseth over boat strikes
December 12, 2025
Man who attacked Lancaster County officers with his own urine, feces sentenced up to 12 years in prison, DA says
December 12, 2025
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate allegations made by a former attorney for President Donald Trump in Wisconsin that a judge overseeing his felony case is guilty of misconduct and must step aside
December 12, 2025
New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people
December 12, 2025
Trump sued over East Wing demolition
December 12, 2025
Trump honors 1980 ‘Miracle on Ice’ Olympic team with a new gold medal
December 12, 2025
A U.S. Navy admiral who oversees military operations in Latin America has handed off command responsibilities as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration’s deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region
December 12, 2025
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public image
December 12, 2025
Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, according to her supporters
December 12, 2025
Venezuela says US has suspended deportation flights; US denies it
December 12, 2025
Chile is heading into a high-stakes presidential runoff defined by sharply contrasting visions of the country’s recent past and visions for its future
December 12, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man the Trump administration sent to that notorious prison in El Salvador earlier this year, has been released from ICE custody. CNN's Erin Burnett talks one-on-one with his attorney Simon Sandoval.
December 11, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has walked away after a scheduled appointment at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office after a federal judge ordered that officials could not detain him
December 12, 2025
A senior Kremlin official says Russian police and the National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if a peace settlement ends the war
December 12, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader says she aims for a peaceful transition after Maduro
December 12, 2025
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old man accused of fatally shooting conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, appeared in a Utah court Thursday for the first time in-person since his arrest. Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder and felony use of a firearm, as well as obstruction of justice, witness tampering and commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child.He has not yet entered a plea to the charges.
December 11, 2025
Killing the penny was just the start. Trump is rewriting the rules on America’s coins
December 12, 2025
Former Iraqi President Barham Salih is on track to become the next head of the U.N. refugee agency
December 12, 2025
An official says Germany has summoned the Russian ambassador following accusations of sabotage, cyberattacks and election interference
December 12, 2025
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has hosted a U.S. envoy for talks in Minsk, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West
December 12, 2025
A national strike called by Italy’s largest trade union in protest against the government’s budget plans has widely disrupted transportation, health and school services across the country
December 12, 2025
The longtime leader of the Black Lives Matter movement in Oklahoma City has been indicted for fraud and money laundering
December 11, 2025
House Republicans throw federal labor unions a lifeline in a rare rebuke of Trump
December 12, 2025
Thailand is preparing for a new election early next year after Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul dissolved the House of Representatives
December 12, 2025
Trump announces pardon for Tina Peters, increasing pressure to free her though he can’t erase state charges
December 12, 2025
A strike called by Portugal’s two main trade union confederations has caused severe travel disruption and forced the cancellation of many medical appointments and school classes
December 11, 2025
Trump determined to advance Gaza ceasefire deal as Israeli forces dig in
December 12, 2025
Honduras’ governing LIBRE party experienced a spectacular collapse in the presidential election, going from more than 50% of the vote four years ago to less than 20% this time
December 12, 2025
A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional.”
December 12, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from an immigration detention center in Pennsylvania following an order from a federal judge issued Thursday
December 11, 2025
President Donald Trump has issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado elections administrator convicted of a data breach scheme tied to false claims of election fraud
December 12, 2025
Trump’s security strategy is making a hard pivot on China. Why now?
December 12, 2025
A Canadian Conservative lawmaker has defected from his party and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals
December 11, 2025
A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore billions in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding
December 12, 2025
The deeply personal reasons why many Indiana Senate Republicans said no to Trump
December 12, 2025
China will soon start collecting a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and products for the first time in over 30 years
December 12, 2025
In a resounding rejection of a pressure campaign from the White House, Indiana Republican Senators voted down a new congressional map created to give the GOP an advantage in the upcoming 2026 election
December 11, 2025
Trump signs executive order blocking states from enforcing their own regulations around AI
December 12, 2025
The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk has made his first in-person court appearance as his attorneys push to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case
December 11, 2025
The U.S. Mint has unveiled designs for coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence
December 11, 2025
The Senate has rejected two partisan health bills on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year
December 11, 2025
Local officials in Florida’s capital city have voted to sell a city-owned golf course built on top of the graves of enslaved people to a once-segregated country club
December 11, 2025
The IRS Criminal Investigations unit is doing more than just cracking down on tax evaders
December 11, 2025
Defense attorneys and prosecutors have selected the jurors who will decide whether a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal officers broke the law
December 11, 2025
Senators from both parties are pushing to change a defense bill after crash investigators and victims' families warned it could undo key safety reforms
December 11, 2025
Justice Department fails to reindict Letitia James for a second time
December 11, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has defended the Trump administration's immigration policies during a contentious House committee hearing
December 11, 2025
A grand jury has declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James
December 11, 2025
Navy delivers report to Hegseth on potential of punishment for Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video
December 11, 2025
The House has voted to dismiss an effort to impeach President Donald Trump
December 11, 2025
A presidentially appointed council's meeting to announce reforms to FEMA was unexpectedly canceled, according to two people familiar with the matter
December 11, 2025
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
December 11, 2025
The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued new guidance stating airlines don't have to cover passenger expenses like meals or lodging when a flight is canceled or significantly delayed by an aircraft recall
December 11, 2025
A university president who’s a former federal judge looks at the rule of law and the Trump administration’s first year, concluding the president ‘simply lacks respect for our system of justice.’
December 11, 2025
Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson makes first in-person court appearance
December 11, 2025
More than 400 civilians have been killed since the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group escalated its offensive in eastern Congo, officials said
December 11, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has linked the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela to the Trump administration's counterdrug efforts
December 11, 2025
US proposes ‘free economic zone’ in parts of Donbas after Ukrainian pullback, Zelensky says
December 11, 2025
Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee are clashing over President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in American cities
December 11, 2025
Swiss singer Nemo, who won the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest, has decided to return the winners' trophy
December 11, 2025
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is proposing changes to the Financial Stability Oversight Council
December 11, 2025
Hopes for solving a major health insurance issue are fading in Washington
December 11, 2025
The Senate has rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year
December 11, 2025
A divided GOP forges ahead on health care message — without plan to address spiking premiums
December 11, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader says US helped her travel to Norway to accept Nobel Prize
December 11, 2025
Trump takes steps toward demolishing four federal buildings, preservationist alleges
December 11, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says negotiators are tackling territorial issues in U.S.-led peace talks with Russia
December 11, 2025
NATO chief warns European allies they could be Russia’s next target
December 11, 2025
Security ramping up for Army-Navy game in Baltimore, with Trump expected to attend
December 11, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says “decisive” actions by the United States, including the seizure of an oil tanker, have left the repressive government of President Nicolás Maduro at its weakest point
December 11, 2025
Bulgaria’s government has resigned as mass protests gripped the country just weeks before it’s due to join the eurozone
December 11, 2025
Mamdani and top New York rabbis will meet privately, but their core divide remains unresolved
December 11, 2025
Ukraine’s gloves are off in its energy war with Russia. How much can it increase the pressure?
December 11, 2025
Don’t discount the threat of AI political videos fooling people, but for now, they’re mostly about bolstering group identity and cashing in on viral content.
December 11, 2025
A day out in the Death Strip: How a symbol of communist paranoia became a wild paradise
December 11, 2025
The European Union has handed Ukraine a list of reforms needed to join the bloc
December 11, 2025
How a World Cup match scheduled in Seattle has caused outrage in Egypt and Iran
December 11, 2025
A new AP-NORC poll finds President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy has fallen substantially since he reentered the White House
December 11, 2025
U.S. strategic bombers joined Japanese fighter jets in a joint military exercise around Japan's airspace
December 11, 2025
Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee
December 10, 2025
Republicans worry Trump is missing the mark on affordability
December 11, 2025
A former top official in Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ administration is running to succeed the two-term Democrat
December 11, 2025
Cambodia says Thailand has launched more airstrikes as heavy fighting flares along their border
December 11, 2025
Pentagon did not conduct routine investigation on whether Hegseth damaged national security by sharing strike plans on Signal
December 11, 2025
Bolivian law enforcement officials have arrested former President Luis Arce as part of a corruption investigation, opening an uncertain new chapter in Bolivia’s politics just a month after the inauguration of conservative President Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule
December 10, 2025
US seizes oil tanker off Venezuelan coast
December 10, 2025
Renewed border fighting between Thailand and Cambodia is showing no signs of stopping
December 10, 2025
‘Trump Gold Card’ launches, offering expedited immigration pathway with a $1 million fee
December 11, 2025
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has appeared in public for the first time in 11 months
December 10, 2025
Senator calls for release of man detained by federal agents after he was attacked by a patrol dog
December 11, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump says he and European leaders have discussed proposals to end the war in Ukraine, adding that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “has to be realistic” about his country’s position on a peace plan
December 10, 2025
As President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package this week to help U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs, he placed responsibility for the U.S. agricultural trade deficit on former President Joe Biden
December 11, 2025
President Donald Trump says the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro
December 10, 2025
Venezuela’s Machado arrives in Norway hours after Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
December 10, 2025
President Donald Trump says the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
December 10, 2025
The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern U.S. border to support border security operations — this time in California
December 10, 2025
Ukraine presents response to US peace plan as Trump says European leaders want a meeting
December 10, 2025
House advances annual defense policy bill, upping pressure on boat strike video release
December 10, 2025
Trump enters Warner Bros. fight, says it’s ‘imperative that CNN be sold’
December 10, 2025
Aid deliveries into Gaza are falling short of the amount agreed upon in the U.S.-brokered ceasefire
December 10, 2025
Travelers who are now able to come to the United States without a visa might soon need to provide social media, email, and family history details to the Department of Homeland Security
December 10, 2025
President Donald Trump traveled to Pennsylvania to tout his economic agenda and try to allay voters’ cost of living concerns.
December 10, 2025
Trump administration taps election fraud crusader to help lead FEMA
December 10, 2025
A federal appeals court has ruled that a New Jersey law that permits terminally ill people to seek life-ending drugs applies only to residents of the state and not those from beyond its borders
December 10, 2025
81 alleged victims join suit against Army doctor accused of sexual misconduct
December 10, 2025
Brad Lander, a Mamdani ally, challenges Rep. Dan Goldman in Democratic primary with mayor-elect’s backing
December 10, 2025
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop deploying California National Guard troops in Los Angeles
December 10, 2025
Kamala Harris is extending her book tour in 2026 and hitting politically important territory
December 10, 2025
Could Ukraine really hold elections in the next 90 days?
December 10, 2025
European nations have agreed to consider changes that rights advocates say would weaken migrant protections that have underpinned European law since World War II
December 10, 2025
USA Today's editor in chief, Caren Bohan, is out of the job she's held for a little more than a year
December 10, 2025
Rain has finally fallen in Iran's capital after months of drought
December 10, 2025
Denmark sees US as potential security concern
December 10, 2025
In CNN interview, Govs. Spencer Cox of Utah and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania condemn political violence
December 10, 2025
The hardest bed he ever felt: Former French president recounts his 20 days behind bars
December 10, 2025
'Once in a generation opportunity': Narcan to be distributed to every public school in Georgia
December 10, 2025
Almost eight years later, Trump confirms he used the phrase ‘shithole countries’
December 10, 2025
The language of politicians has become more vulgar in recent years
December 10, 2025
US charges Ukrainian woman for her alleged role in Russia-backed cyberattacks
December 10, 2025
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy describes his time behind bars in a book released Wednesday
December 10, 2025
Third federal judge grants request to unseal Jeffrey Epstein-related court records
December 10, 2025
1 student dead and another injured in shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort
December 09, 2025
Brazil's lower house of Congress has approved a bill that could reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro's prison time
December 10, 2025
3 separate US strikes on alleged drug boats have initially left survivors. Each time they’ve been treated differently
December 10, 2025
District courts have dismissed the administration’s efforts to detain virtually all undocumented immigrants without a bond hearing while they await deportation proceedings.
December 10, 2025
Judges and federal regulators will make significant decisions over Americans’ reproductive rights.
December 10, 2025
Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over the scheduling of a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that’s expected to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride
December 10, 2025
US plan would require some visitors to provide social media information from last 5 years
December 10, 2025
The Supreme Court has heard arguments about how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution
December 10, 2025
Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 says it has taken control of the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Congo
December 10, 2025
Pro-AI super PAC launches first candidate ads
December 10, 2025
Italian cuisine has achieved a significant milestone, becoming the first entire gastronomic style to be recognized by UNESCO, the UN's cultural body. The recognition arrives as Italy intensifies its efforts to combat "fake" Italian food. CNN's Barbie Latza Nadeau reports from Rome.
December 11, 2025
Georgia Democrat Eric Gisler flips a state House seat in district Trump won by double digits
December 10, 2025
Dozens of people have been killed in a drone strike against Sudan’s largest oil processing facility carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces
December 10, 2025
Vance expected to travel to Pennsylvania next week to continue administration’s push on affordability
December 10, 2025
US Navy says it recovered two aircraft that crashed into South China Sea
December 10, 2025
A woman from Syria's Alawite minority has spoken about her harrowing experience of being kidnapped and raped by gunmen
December 10, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed a groundbreaking social media ban for children under 16 as families taking back power from tech giants
December 10, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he's still weighing whether to release the full video of an attack on an alleged drug boat that killed two survivors
December 09, 2025
Opponents of Missouri’s new congressional map have submitted thousands of petition signatures calling for a statewide vote on the plan backed by President Donald Trump
December 09, 2025
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina could be federally recognized through the National Defense Authorization Act the House plans to vote on this week
December 09, 2025
President Donald Trump admits he used the slur “shithole countries” during a private 2018 meeting with lawmakers to disparage Haiti and African nations
December 10, 2025
Cambodia and Thailand are engaged in renewed fighting, forcing tens of thousands to flee border areas
December 09, 2025
At a nighttime event in Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump tried to emphasize his focus on combating inflation, although the issue couldn't quite command his full attention
December 09, 2025
Eileen Higgins will win Miami mayor’s race, breaking a nearly 30-year GOP hold
December 09, 2025
Pope Leo XIV is insisting that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal
December 09, 2025
Rod Paige, the first African American to serve as U.S. secretary of education, has died at 92
December 10, 2025
The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week
December 09, 2025
Democrat Eileen Higgins has won the Miami mayor’s race over a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump
December 09, 2025
A leader of the West African regional bloc says coups and attempted coups have left the region in a state of emergency
December 09, 2025
A planned news conference by Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has been canceled after a several-hour delay, a day before Wednesday's award ceremony in Oslo
December 09, 2025
Neighbors gather at Menlo Park to be connected with resources and support after Friday's ICE searches
December 09, 2025
The U.S. military has flown a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign
December 09, 2025
Ukraine is ready to hold elections in next 90 days if allies can guarantee security, Zelensky says
December 09, 2025
A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates
December 09, 2025
A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state
December 09, 2025
Senate to vote on GOP health care bill that does not extend expiring Obamacare tax credits
December 09, 2025
Bolivia’s new right-wing government says it restored diplomatic relations with Israel, the latest sign of the dramatic geopolitical realignment underway in the South American country
December 09, 2025
As Trump states Ukraine is losing the war with Russia, officials say the battlefield situation hasn’t changed significantly
December 09, 2025
A gerrymandering battle is spreading among states after President Donald Trump pushed for new U.S. House districts ahead of next year's elections
December 01, 2025
The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions
December 09, 2025
The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors
December 09, 2025
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country plans to send more water to the U.S., but not immediately
December 09, 2025
A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration
December 09, 2025
At least two of several agreements aimed at ending global conflicts that President Donald Trump has hailed as evidence of his negotiating prowess are in trouble and at risk of collapsing
December 09, 2025
Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares
December 09, 2025
The Trump administration is threatening to pull public transportation funding from Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside a commuter train
December 09, 2025
A new study says that more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists report online violence and over 40% of them have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse
December 09, 2025
Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president
December 09, 2025
Gov. Greg Abbott vows to add more Turning Point USA chapters to Texas schools
December 09, 2025
FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s public support for Donald Trump and a peace prize awarded to the U.S. president are the subjects of formal complaints to the global soccer body’s ethics investigators
December 09, 2025
Justice Department confirms in court filing it may prosecute Comey again
December 09, 2025
Britain has announced sanctions against several Russian media and ideas organizations
December 09, 2025
A human rights group says dozens of people in Haiti’s capital have been killed following violent clashes within a powerful gang coalition
December 09, 2025
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on four people and four firms for allegedly recruiting former Colombian military members to train soldiers for Sudan's Rapid Support Forces
December 09, 2025
Several Malone officers exposed to blood during inmate fight, lawmakers call for transparency
December 09, 2025
Thailand launched airstrikes against Cambodia as a new wave of fighting erupted between the neighboring countries, leaving a peace plan presided over by President Donald Trump in danger of collapse. Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow told CNN that military action against Cambodia would continue “until we feel that sovereignty and territorial integrity are not challenged.”
December 08, 2025
Controversial nativity scene will remain until further conversation with archdiocese, church leaders say
December 09, 2025
High school students in San Jose form swastika on football field, post image with Hitler quote on social media
December 09, 2025
A federal judge in New York has granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant
December 09, 2025
Slovakia’s parliament has approved a plan to dismantle an independent office that protects whistleblowers
December 09, 2025
Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, has resigned as the acting US attorney for the district of New Jersey, following an appeals court ruling finding that she was serving in her position unlawfully. CNN Correspondent Kara Scannell reports out the latest.
December 08, 2025
The Australian government says it has banned under-16s from social media for their own safety. Now, two teens are fighting the law in court, arguing a right to political expression. CNN's Angus Watson reports.
December 09, 2025
Judge says Ghislaine Maxwell court documents can be released as part of the push for information on Jeffrey Epstein
December 09, 2025
Israel’s military took journalists into Rafah this week
December 09, 2025
Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is running for governor of New York
December 09, 2025
Thailand and Cambodia are fighting again, leaving a Trump-brokered peace agreement on brink of collapse. What happened?
December 09, 2025
Trump administration quietly builds plans for what would happen if Maduro were ousted in Venezuela
December 09, 2025
Trump’s lawyer pushed for more executive power; Supreme Court justices seem eager to comply
December 09, 2025
Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš has been sworn in as the Czech Republic’s new prime minister following October’s parliamentary election
December 09, 2025
Honduras Attorney General Johel Zelaya has ordered authorities and asked Interpol to execute a 2023 arrest order for ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández
December 09, 2025
Jasmine Crockett launches Texas Senate bid with a vow to Trump: ‘I’m coming for you’
December 08, 2025
A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law
December 09, 2025
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month
December 09, 2025
Senate Republican leader won’t commit to vote on a GOP health care proposal with key Obamacare subsidies set to expire
December 08, 2025
Trump greenlights exports of Nvidia H200 chips to China
December 08, 2025
President Donald Trump says he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China
December 08, 2025
Latest Charlotte rail stabbing suspect ordered to stay behind bars in first court hearing
December 08, 2025
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas
December 08, 2025
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the latest Republican candidate for Georgia governor to attack campaign finance rules that allow Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to raise unlimited contributions
December 08, 2025
Trump threatens Mexico with even higher tariffs
December 09, 2025
The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members
December 08, 2025
A National Guardsman has shot and killed three fellow service members in Michoacan, Mexico
December 09, 2025
A federal judge has approved a federal settlement that will clear the way for the New Orleans Archdiocese to pay at least $230 million to hundreds of victims of clergy sexual abuse
December 08, 2025
Woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt released from ICE custody
December 08, 2025
President Donald Trump is giving farmers some $12 billion in aid to help as they struggle to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs
December 08, 2025
Angry farmers protesting delays in the payment of subsidies have swarmed onto an airport tarmac on the southern Greek island of Crete
December 08, 2025
President Donald Trump is justifying the U.S. military's decision to fire a second missile in a heavily scrutinized U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea
December 08, 2025
Israeli police raid UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem and replace UN flag with Israeli flag, head of the agency says
December 08, 2025
A federal judge investigating whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should face a contempt charge over flights carrying migrants to El Salvador wants to hear from a whistleblower and a top Justice Department official
December 08, 2025
President Donald Trump’s former attorney in battleground Wisconsin is alleging that a judge presiding over his case and that of two other Trump aides charged with felonies related to the 2020 election is guilty of misconduct and must step aside
December 08, 2025
The maker of an iPhone app that flagged sightings of U.S. immigration agents has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations
December 08, 2025
President Donald Trump won't be getting his wish, at least not soon
December 08, 2025
Benin's government has said Sunday's short-lived coup left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers
December 08, 2025
A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation
December 08, 2025
Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as Trump’s peace agreement hangs in balance
December 08, 2025
ICEBlock creator sues Trump administration officials saying they pressured Apple to remove it from the app store
December 08, 2025
How the rich and powerful jockey for pardons from Trump
December 08, 2025
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, announced her resignation as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey
December 08, 2025
FBI agents fired over 2020 kneeling photo during George Floyd protests sue Director Kash Patel
December 08, 2025
Zelensky says Ukraine will refuse to concede territory to Russia as peace talks press on
December 08, 2025
A North Carolina judge says a Honduran man charged in a non-fatal stabbing on a Charlotte commuter train will remain held without bond
December 08, 2025
Florida bear hunt begins despite pushback
December 08, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have met their Australian counterparts for annual talks focused on Indo-Pacific security and countering China’s increasing assertiveness in the region
December 08, 2025
An official says the airspace over Yemen was briefly closed as tensions rose in the south of the country
December 08, 2025
Trump announces $12 billion farmer aid package
December 08, 2025
Salman Fiqy is a Somali-American republican who publicly gave support to President Trump during the 2024 election. Now, he tells CNN's Victor Blackwell he is leaving the GOP after Trump's harsh rhetoric.
December 07, 2025
Bondi says judges are engaging in an ‘unconscionable campaign of bias’ against Lindsey Halligan
December 08, 2025
A bomb explosion has killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo
December 08, 2025
The U.N.’s humanitarian aid coordinator is downsizing its appeal for annual funding in 2026 after support this year — mostly from Western governments — plunged to the lowest level in a decade
December 08, 2025
Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem
December 08, 2025
A year on from the ousting of Assad, Syrians remember the pain but rejoice at their freedom
December 08, 2025
Iranian officials say a second flight carrying deported Iranians has left the United States
December 08, 2025
Top bipartisan lawmakers support releasing video of controversial boat strikes
December 08, 2025
In a new book based on hours of body-cam footage, a legal scholar shows how local police in sanctuary jurisdictions still help ICE − and why true non-cooperation is nearly impossible to enforce.
December 08, 2025
A top European Union official has warned the United States against interfering in European affairs
December 08, 2025
The new film highlights how the tribunal broke ground – and where it fell short – raising enduring questions about complicity, morality and whether humanity can ever truly judge its worst crimes.
December 08, 2025
Pakistan’s newly appointed chief of defense forces has warned Afghanistan’s Taliban government to choose between maintaining ties with Islamabad or supporting the Pakistani Taliban, the militant group blamed for a surge in deadly attacks in recent years
December 08, 2025
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December 08, 2025
Analysis: Trump’s first year back in office contradicts his ‘free speech’ commitments
December 08, 2025
Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser says the city's police chief, Pamela Smith, is stepping down
December 08, 2025
The World Health Organization's director says the death toll from drone strikes on a kindergarten and other sites in Sudan’s Kordofan state last week is now at 114 people including 63 children
December 08, 2025
House Republicans in key battleground districts are working to contain the political fallout expected when thousands of their constituents face higher bills for health insurance coverage obtained through the Affordable Care Act
December 08, 2025
Greenland is hosting meetings with U.S. officials
December 08, 2025
Sylvester Stallone, Kiss and Gloria Gaynor are among the luminaries celebrated at the annual Kennedy Center Honors
December 07, 2025
Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry go Instagram official
December 08, 2025
Takeaways: Supreme Court’s conservatives ready to back Trump on firings
December 08, 2025
Thailand has launched airstrikes along its disputed border with Cambodia
December 08, 2025
President Donald Trump is claiming Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “ hasn’t read” a U
December 07, 2025
After months of bending the Kennedy Center to his will, Trump takes center stage for the annual honors
December 08, 2025
Marjorie Taylor Greene defiant since announcing resignation after falling-out with Trump
December 08, 2025
Democratic governors who met over the weekend in Arizona say the party must focus on affordability in next year's midterm elections
December 08, 2025
Tens of thousands of women in cities across Brazil have rallied against gender-based violence amid record numbers of female victims
December 07, 2025
Hamas willing to discuss ‘freezing or storing’ weapons, senior official says, amid concerns over ceasefire
December 07, 2025
The Republican who leads the Senate Intelligence Committee says a video of a U_S_ military strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed two survivors of the initial attack shows “nothing remarkable."
December 07, 2025
Democrats are hoping to win a race for Miami mayor after decades out of power
December 07, 2025
President Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar plans to run for reelection as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case
December 07, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel and Hamas are expected to move into the second phase of their ceasefire soon
December 07, 2025
A Hamas official says the group is ready to discuss “freezing or storing” its arsenal of weapons as part of its ceasefire with Israel
December 07, 2025
Who are the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees?
December 07, 2025
Trump blames Maduro for migrants, but a war in Venezuela could create millions of refugees
December 07, 2025
Jasmine Crockett scrambles Democrats as she weighs a last-minute Texas Senate run
December 07, 2025
An exhibit opening Monday in Atlanta shows a historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized
December 07, 2025
Swing-district Republican sounds alarm over GOP’s affordability agenda: ‘Doing nothing is not an option’
December 07, 2025
Why Indiana GOP voters want their senators to defy Trump’s threats
December 07, 2025
Japan says Chinese military aircraft locked radar on its fighter jets even though there was a safe distance between them, denying Beijing’s accusation of interference and renewing its protest over the incident
December 07, 2025
Judge temporarily blocks Justice Department’s use of evidence in dismissed Comey case
December 07, 2025
Ukraine peace talks in Miami end with lingering questions over security guarantees and territory
December 07, 2025
Trump administration set to deport more Iranians back to their home country
December 07, 2025
Hegseth defends action in the Caribbean amid mounting questions
December 06, 2025
President Donald Trump has presented medals to the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees during an Oval Office ceremony
December 06, 2025
Supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado have demonstrated in several cities worldwide to celebrate her Nobel Peace Prize win
December 06, 2025
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has defended U_S_ military strikes on alleged drug cartel boats, saying President Donald Trump has the right to take military action “as he sees fit.”
December 06, 2025
The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, but will waive admission costs on President Donald Trump's birthday
December 06, 2025
CNN News Central's Sara Sidner speaks with Indiana Republican State Senator Michael Bohacek about what brought him to stand against the President's redistricting rhetoric.
December 05, 2025
A federal judge has rejected a request from the Trump administration to toss a lawsuit challenging the detention of migrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
December 06, 2025
Top law enforcement officials in the Trump administration had a clear message when they announced the arrest of a man charged with placing pipe bombs outside political party headquarters in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021
December 06, 2025
Dulles was supposed to be the airport of the future. So why does everyone, including Trump, hate it?
December 06, 2025
Mike Duggan is stepping down as Detroit mayor at the end of the year after three terms in office
December 06, 2025
Syrian president says Israel is ‘fighting ghosts’ and must abide by deconfliction accord
December 06, 2025
Qatar’s prime minister says the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down
December 06, 2025
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers
December 05, 2025
Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested a 71-year-old man for allegedly posting seditious content on social media
December 06, 2025
How the Supreme Court emboldened Democrats in California and elsewhere redrawing US House maps
December 06, 2025
Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency
December 06, 2025
Argentina and Lionel Messi will play Algeria to open their World Cup title defense as part of a group that also includes Austria
December 05, 2025
Democratic congresswoman says she was pepper-sprayed during ICE raid in Arizona
December 05, 2025
A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born
December 05, 2025
Members of Congress now know that the U.S. military fired upon two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs — and they want answers
December 05, 2025
Federal border agents have descended on a Hispanic enclave just outside New Orleans, and local business owners are suffering
December 05, 2025
President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they’ll meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for postwar Ukraine
December 05, 2025
Iran will play at least one World Cup match in the United States, though a group-stage clash with the U.S. was avoided in Friday's draw
December 05, 2025
Perhaps it's fitting that after the World Cup draw ceremony began, it took about 90 minutes for the actual drawing of teams to begin in earnest
December 05, 2025
A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked
December 05, 2025
A former DEA agent and an associate have been charged with conspiring to launder millions of dollars and obtain weapons for a Mexican drug cartel
December 05, 2025
The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and planted the president’s name on the organization’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control
December 04, 2025
Vanity Fair is parting ways with West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi amid controversy over her past coverage of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A statement Friday from Nuzzi and the magazine says they have mutually agreed to let her contract expire at the end of the year
December 05, 2025
A federal judge has questioned the Trump administration’s authority and need to maintain command of California National Guard troops it first deployed to Los Angeles in June following violent protests
December 05, 2025
Rep. Darrell Issa tells the Associated Press he isn’t moving to Texas to run for Congress
December 05, 2025
Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.
December 05, 2025
The Social Security Administration plans to cut foot traffic to its field offices by 50% next year
December 05, 2025
A prosecutor says the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators he was “disappointed” in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election
December 05, 2025
President Donald Trump has finally met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum
December 05, 2025
FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump
December 05, 2025
Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship
December 05, 2025
A federal judge has given the Justice Department permission to release transcripts of a grand jury investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage girls in Florida
December 05, 2025
Federal judge in Florida orders unsealing of grand jury transcripts and records in Epstein probe
December 05, 2025
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship
December 05, 2025
Indiana House sets up a showdown between Trump and Republican state senators over redistricting
December 05, 2025
Melania Trump has continued a decades-old first lady tradition of visiting with hospitalized children for the holidays
December 05, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an annual summit, focusing on diversifying economic ties
December 05, 2025
University of Oklahoma student claims religious discrimination over failed essay: What we know
December 05, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to more than 30 countries
December 05, 2025
JD Vance brushes off speculation about his marriage
December 05, 2025
Please disregard the initial version of US--FBI-Pipe Bomb Investigation, published on Dec. 5, 2025, and datelined in WASHINGTON
December 05, 2025
President Donald Trump has come out with a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere
December 05, 2025
French officials are investigating an illegal drone overflight of the Atlantic coast base for France's nuclear-armed submarines
December 05, 2025
A divided Supreme Court has come to the rescue of Texas Republicans, ruling in favor of their new congressional map that a judge says is likely to be found racially discriminatory
December 05, 2025
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers
December 05, 2025
Trump national security strategy calls for ‘cultivating resistance’ in Europe and changing US’ role in Western Hemisphere
December 05, 2025
The World Cup draw takes place Friday, featuring four debuting teams: Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan and Uzbekistan
December 04, 2025
Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and Netherlands boycott Eurovision over Israel’s participation
December 04, 2025
When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program, he left thousands stranded worldwide
December 05, 2025
German lawmakers approve plan to attract more military recruits as Europe seeks to counter Russia
December 05, 2025
Fort Hood OB-GYN accused of sexual misconduct now in jail
December 05, 2025
Asian shares surge as markets regain momentum after recent volatility
Mariners acquire All-Star Brendan Donovan from Cardinals in three-team trade with Rays
Trump hints at dramatic Kennedy Center renovations that will leave steel ‘fully exposed’
An internal document shows the Vietnamese military preparing for a possible American war
Savannah Guthrie was getting ready to cover the Olympics. Then came the ‘worst phone call of her life’
SpaceX, xAI say they intend to merge
Trump dodges question about his threat to sue Trevor Noah over Epstein joke