Politics

By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday night the United States has reached an oil agreement with Venezuela, a move he said will “more than double” American oil reserves, increase oil supply and lower gas prices. “At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to uphold its policy banning transgender Americans from serving in the military, the latest significant case involving trans Americans to reach the conservative court in recent years. Days after taking office last year, Trump signed an executive order directing the Pentagon

By Lauren del Valle, Kara Scannell, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge again denied President Donald Trump’s legal effort to get his New York state criminal hush money case moved to federal court, a move that could have made it easier to reverse his conviction. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said in a ruling Friday that

By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — Wyoming’s Republican Gov. Mark Gordon voiced concerns about the Justice Department election monitors who observed the primary election in his state last week, saying he’s asked his attorney general to look into their “aggressive” behavior. The Justice Department sent two Civil Rights Division attorneys to Laramie County, Wyoming, which

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will make it easier for ranchers to process their own meat, in an effort to weaken the control the nation’s four largest meatpacking firms have over the process. The move comes shortly after Trump was pressed on the issue by conservative radio

By Dan Berman, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge in Boston has temporarily blocked the US Postal Service from carrying out a plan, issued under an executive order from President Trump, that could limit mail voting. Democratic states and voter advocacy groups challenging the recently released USPS rules were granted a temporary restraining

By Aleena Fayaz, CNN (CNN) — Amid a growing trade war with one of the United States’ closest allies, President Donald Trump on Thursday moved to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” needling Canada further after trade talks collapsed. Trump’s executive order marks the president’s latest attempt to use rebranding as an assertion of power

By Devan Cole, Tierney Sneed, Michael Williams, CNN (CNN) — The Kennedy Center board told a federal judge Thursday it will not attempt to add President Donald Trump’s name to the building or grounds until October 8 at the earliest, a one-month delay from previous plans. The announcement came in a one-sentence court filing following

CNN By Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday afternoon to change the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” further needling Canada as he engages in a tense trade war with the United States’ northern ally. Flanked in the Oval Office by large maps of the Great Lakes

By Lauren Fox, Allison Gordon, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards is lobbying his colleagues to vote against a possible censure over allegations that he repeatedly made unwanted advances toward two female staffers, asserting that familiar conduct toward his employees was not necessarily inappropriate. “An affectionate friendship is not a sexual proposition,” the North

By Adam Cancryn, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has disclosed making another 1,000-plus stock transactions in June, continuing an unprecedented pace of trading activity while in office that has drawn scrutiny over his ability to personally profit off of the presidency. The trades, submitted in a filing to the Office of Government Ethics, included

By Kevin Liptak, Zachary Cohen, Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s central intelligence chief traveled to Moscow this week with a warning to Russia not to stage an attack in NATO territory, among other issues, according to two people familiar with the matter. CIA Director John Ratcliffe also used the trip, which

By Adam Cancryn, Kristen Holmes, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump has touted his one-of-a-kind midterm convention as the spectacle his party needs to reenergize voters and alter its political fortunes ahead of the midterms. But as the two-day extravaganza approaches, Republicans are privately questioning if it strikes the right tone amid the electorate’s tightening

By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN (CNN) — Former leaders of the National Archives — which preserves and protects the nation’s most important documents — are urging a federal appeals court to reject the Trump administration’s effort to ignore the Presidential Records Act, a decades old law that requires presidents save all official records from their