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By Joan Biskupic, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court first agreed to hear the case that launched the justices’ current trajectory protecting the free exercise of religion in January 2016. But after Justice Antonin Scalia suddenly died the next month, creating a possible 4-4 split, the court postponed the hearing for 15 months, past the presidential

By Adam Cancryn, Priscilla Alvarez, Sarah Owermohle, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump responded to this week’s GOP drubbing by initially suggesting that he might soften his approach, expressing openness to collaborating with Democrats. But after growing increasingly agitated by the midterm results, Trump abruptly changed course, replacing chief of staff Susie Wiles with longtime

By John King, CNN (CNN) — Fear was the word Daisy Alcazar used most during an October visit CNN’s All Over the Map made to her ice cream shop near the US-Mexico border in South Texas. Hope is what she voices most now, when she can stop crying tears of joy. “Texas has turned BLUE!”

By Davis Winkie, CNN (CNN) — A group of American diplomats was riding in an Israeli helicopter in early 1960 when one of them spotted a construction site rising out of the Negev desert about 20 miles west of the Dead Sea. The US official pointed and asked the party’s Israeli escort, Addy Cohen from

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN (CNN) — The US Secret Service arrested a man near the White House Thursday who allegedly had several guns in a stolen car and was threatening to kill President Donald Trump. According to the Department of Homeland Security, Secret Service agents noticed Ronny Yordrix Guanipa Chrinos – a Venezuela national

By Curt Devine, CNN Palmer, Alaska (CNN) — Days before the midterms, federal prosecutors ordered Gerald Heikes, a longshot Senate hopeful in Alaska, to appear before a grand jury with any records he has related to political groups and other candidates in the race, according to documents reviewed by CNN. The subpoena was sent as

CNN By Kevin Liptak, Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Priscilla Alvarez, Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, is departing her role days after catastrophic Republican midterm losses in a seismic staff shakeup at the White House. She will be replaced by Stephen Miller, a longtime aide to President Donald

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump dangled the promise of $5,000 checks to every American adult before the midterm elections, with a key stipulation: Republicans had to win. And it wasn’t the only such promise he made, all tied to Republican wins and several in states critical to Senate control. During his

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has promised a new security deal for Ukraine that “might involve all of Europe” after meeting a top Russian envoy on Thursday, but the proposal offers few details and has left European capitals puzzled. “It’s going to be a big agreement…It’s going to involve

CNN By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has promised a new security deal for Ukraine that “might involve all of Europe” after meeting a top Russian envoy on Thursday, but the proposal offers few details and has left European capitals puzzled. “It’s going to be a big agreement…It’s going to involve

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Three high-profile officials have resigned from the Justice Department in the days since the midterms, including Jason Reding Quiñones, the senior federal prosecutor who led a sprawling investigation into President Donald Trump’s political foes. Quiñones resigned from his position as the US Attorney in Southern Florida under

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN (CNN) — US President Donald Trump has promised a new security deal for Ukraine that “might involve all of Europe” after meeting a top Russian envoy on Thursday, but the proposal offers few details and has left European capitals puzzled. “It’s going to be a big agreement…It’s going to involve more

By Fredreka Schouten, Annie Grayer, Tierney Sneed, CNN Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) — National party operatives, lawyers, grassroots activists and content creators are descending on Mississippi to observe the vetting of thousands of provisional ballots in the coming days and to gear up for possible legal challenges over the final results. Mississippi, a state not used

CNN By Fredreka Schouten, Annie Grayer, Tierney Sneed, CNN Jackson, Mississippi (CNN) — National party operatives, lawyers, grassroots activists and content creators are descending on Mississippi to observe the vetting of thousands of provisional ballots in the coming days and to gear up for possible legal challenges over the final results. Mississippi, a state not

By Kaanita Iyer, Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — While Democratic victories in marquee national contests took the spotlight this week, with the party securing at least 250 seats in the House and winning back the Senate, several candidates in down-ballot races across the country clinched what appear to be surprising wins. Here are some

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A blockbuster Supreme Court appeal challenging a ban on AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles may be thrown into disarray by a mysterious request to remove the lead plaintiff from the case, a puzzling twist that prompted the ban’s defenders to ask the justices on Thursday to dismiss the case. The case,

By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national landmarks — a move he said would protect the two West Wing spaces from future changes. The signing ceremony, which came on the heels of Republicans’

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — An FBI agent hit a pedestrian with their agency car in New York early one morning in February, before moving the man to a nearby bench and speeding away, according to a federal indictment handed up this week. The now-former agent, Andrew Reyes, was driving his FBI-issued car with

By Kara Scannell, Lauren del Valle, CNN (CNN) — Two years into his second term, President Donald Trump is still trying to wipe his 2024 felony conviction from the books. A panel of New York appellate justices on Thursday heard Trump’s legal challenges to his conviction on falsifying business records to cover up hush money

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump hosted representatives from the highest levels of Russia’s and Ukraine’s governments at the White House on Thursday to celebrate the conclusion of a localized ceasefire — a humanitarian breakthrough, albeit limited, that came as President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war have so