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
CNN's Whitney Wild reports for The Lead.
December 07, 2025
A year on from the ousting of Assad, Syrians remember the pain but rejoice at their freedom
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
Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry go Instagram official
December 08, 2025
Inside Trump’s transformation of the Kennedy Center
December 06, 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
The World Cup draw takes place Friday, featuring four debuting teams: Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan and Uzbekistan
December 04, 2025
FIFA World Cup Draw: Everything you need to know
December 05, 2025
Rank-and-file Republicans in the House are increasingly going public with anger towards their leadership
December 04, 2025
A special congressional election in Tennessee this week highlights the power and consequences of partisan gerrymandering
December 04, 2025
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday confirmed he held a "respectful and cordial" phone call with U.S.
December 03, 2025
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December 02, 2025
The Lebanese army has intensified efforts along the border with Israel, focusing on areas that were once Hezbollah strongholds
November 28, 2025
Trump pushes long-running attack on Biden autopen use, claiming he’s ‘cancelling’ actions signed with it
November 28, 2025
Republican U.S. Representative Troy Nehls announced on Saturday that he would not seek reelection for another term in Congress.
November 29, 2025
U.S. Rep. Troy Nehls says he will retire from Congress after his term ends in 2026 to focus on family
November 30, 2025
Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia remains in "very critical" condition at a Dhaka hospital, her party said on Sunday, as her self-exiled son and
November 30, 2025
From White House adviser to Trump’s handpicked prosecutor: 63 days with Lindsey Halligan
November 30, 2025
Republicans in Indiana's House of Representatives have introduced a new congressional map that could net the GOP two more U.S. House seats, sweeping all nine of the state's seats
December 01, 2025
Russia claims to have captured key city of Pokrovsk, as Ukraine dismisses Moscow’s ‘loud statements’ ahead of Witkoff talks
December 01, 2025
The message behind Putin’s camouflage-clad claim of victory in a key Ukrainian city
December 02, 2025
Switzerland will vote on a proposed wealth tax on Sunday that will be a litmus test of appetite for wealth redistribution in one of the world's richest countries.
November 28, 2025
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a disputed presidential election and led to deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló departing for neighboring Senegal
November 27, 2025
The party of Pakistan's jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan demanded a meeting with him on Thursday, saying it was worried about his health as he has been
November 27, 2025
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November 27, 2025
Federal judges have allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map designed to give Republicans an additional U.S. House seat
November 26, 2025
Moldova summoned Russia's ambassador on Wednesday to complain about the latest intrusion of drones into its airspace and urged Moscow to take measures to prevent further instances.
November 26, 2025
A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martin Vizcarra to 14 years in prison after finding him guilty of taking bribes years before he took office,
November 26, 2025
President Donald Trump brought insults and grievances to the traditional Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House
November 25, 2025
President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.
November 26, 2025
France and Germany are ratcheting up pressure on their industrial champions to rescue Europe's next-generation fighter
November 25, 2025
The leaders of the European countries supporting Ukraine, the so-called coalition of the willing, on Tuesday insisted to keep pressuring Russia with sanctions in a video call with
November 25, 2025
Amy McGrath joins The Lead.
November 24, 2025
French pollster Odoxa predicted for the first time that 30-year-old far-right leader Jordan Bardella would win the next presidential election, scheduled in 2027, no matter who his
November 25, 2025
See where abortion is banned and legal — and where it’s still in limbo
November 06, 2023
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is standing by his past criticisms that President Donald Trump acted like a despot and a fascist
November 23, 2025
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and senior ministry officials will present Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later on Sunday with the state budget and planned structural
November 23, 2025
New Yorkers praise Zohran Mamdani’s charm offensive on Trump, say they remain cautiously optimistic
November 22, 2025
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says she is resigning from Congress in January
November 21, 2025
Bangladesh plans to execute its former leader. There’s one big thing in the way: India
November 22, 2025
Trump and Mamdani bond over affordability issues, love of New York and winning in collegial Oval Office meeting
November 21, 2025
Global ratings agency Moody's on Friday upgraded Italy's sovereign rating to "Baa2" from "Baa3", citing the country's consistent track record of political and policy stability.
November 21, 2025
A Democratic lawmaker who served on Donald Trump’s National Security Council in his first term urged the White House on Friday to release a transcript of
November 21, 2025
NAFTA and the decline of American community have created a new path for mayors of small and midsized cities to reach national office.
November 21, 2025
‘Volume up’: Trump set to host Mamdani at the White House
November 21, 2025
China is the real regional "troublemaker", a senior Taiwanese security official said on Friday, personally giving out copies of a new civil defence handbook the
November 21, 2025
Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Trump administration is undermining the nation's spy services
November 20, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited to Thursday's funeral service for former Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a White House official.
November 20, 2025
The chief of Russia's general staff told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Russian forces had taken control of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk, but Ukraine's
November 20, 2025
Russia's defence ministry released video on Thursday showing its soldiers moving freely through the southern part of the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, patrolling deserted streets lined
November 20, 2025
Democrats are debating how to approach the new Marjorie Taylor Greene
November 20, 2025
The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus
November 20, 2025
Trump says he’ll meet with NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani on Friday in the Oval Office
November 20, 2025
President Donald Trump says he will meet with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in Washington later this week
November 20, 2025
New Orleans may be next as immigration enforcement expands in North Carolina. Here’s what we know
November 19, 2025
Jessica Tisch accepts Zohran Mamdani’s offer to remain New York police commissioner
November 19, 2025
An Indiana lawmaker who who has yet to make a decision on whether to back President Donald Trump’s push to have Republicans redraw the state’s congressional boundaries was the victim of a swatting call that brought sheriff’s deputies to his home
November 17, 2025
Ro Khanna explains how he helped engineer the vote that ‘ripped MAGA apart’
November 19, 2025
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it regretted Warsaw's decision to close Russia's last operating consulate in Poland, in Gdansk, a move it said showed a lack of common sense.
November 19, 2025
President Donald Trump is finding that redistricting his way to a GOP House majority in next year's midterms is a lot harder than it sounds
November 19, 2025
Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was at the White House on Tuesday as President Donald Trump hosted a glitzy dinner to honor Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
November 18, 2025
The commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted to continue paying its contract with PBS
November 18, 2025
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers says he'll step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl
November 18, 2025
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November 18, 2025
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Ankara on Wednesday, a Turkish foreign ministry source said on Tuesday.
November 18, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to visit Turkey this week to revive talks on ending Russia's invasion, which began nearly four years ago
November 18, 2025
FBI and Justice Department struggle to beat back conspiracies their leaders once fanned
November 18, 2025
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he hopes to meet with President Donald Trump to find ways the political polar opposites can work together on the central focus of his winning campaign: affordability
November 17, 2025
A Bangladesh court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led
November 17, 2025
Several crude bombs exploded in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Sunday, police said, heightening tensions ahead of a verdict on Monday in a case against ousted former Prime Minister
November 16, 2025
CNN's KFILE unearths new and incredibly revealing details about Jeffrey Epstein and his opinions of Donald Trump.
November 14, 2025
Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene accused U.S.
November 15, 2025
President Donald Trump was
November 15, 2025
President Donald Trump has announced the removal of U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and other commodities
November 14, 2025
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to get rid of tariffs on a broad swath of commodities, including beef, coffee and tropical fruits
November 14, 2025
The U.S.
November 14, 2025
Israel has returned the bodies of 15 Palestinians to Gaza, according to officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis
November 14, 2025
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed a German general's comments about the possibility of conflict between Moscow and Germany as baseless fear-mongering.
November 14, 2025
The rush to redraw America's congressional maps has put a historically Black neighborhood in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and a mostly white farming community 100 miles away in the same district
November 14, 2025
Russia on Thursday proposed its own draft of a U.N. resolution on Gaza in a challenge to a U.S. effort to pass its own text at the Security
November 13, 2025
Families and staff who rely on the federal preschool program Head Start may have to wait even longer to return to their centers even though the 43-day government shutdown ended Wednesday night
November 13, 2025
Federal workers are expressing relief and frustration as the longest government shutdown has come to an end
November 13, 2025
Pakistan said on Thursday Afghan nationals carried out two deadly suicide bombings in its territory this week, amid sharpening tensions between the South Asian
November 13, 2025
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine would have to negotiate with Russia "sooner or later" and predicted that Kyiv's negotiating position would get worse by the day.
November 13, 2025
The longest government shutdown in history has come to an end, with almost no one happy with the final result
November 12, 2025
Epstein mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails, new release shows
November 12, 2025
The White House said on Wednesday that October jobs and inflation data reports might never be released as a consequence of the government shutdown.
November 12, 2025
The Senate voted 60-40 on Sunday on a key step toward reopening the government. CNN's Manu Raju reports on the latest move.
November 10, 2025
Prosecutors in the case of a man charged with killing a top Minnesota Democratic lawmaker and her husband say they've turned over a massive amount of evidence to the defense
November 12, 2025
Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday he planned to close publicly funded Army Radio in what he described as an attempt to preserve the military’s nonpartisan character, but the
November 12, 2025
How the Trump administration seeks to ‘weaponize’ the White House website to troll Democrats and amplify its message
November 12, 2025
South Korea will co-sponsor an annual U.N. resolution that raises concerns over North Korea's human rights situation, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday, defying
November 12, 2025
Trump floats $2,000 tariff rebate checks. What you need to know
November 10, 2025
Politicians get blamed for government shutdowns. But does the fault lie also with citizens, who are more invested in punishing partisan rivals than in demanding competent government?
November 10, 2025
After Spirit collapse, Duffy says no need for budget airline bailout
Berkshire CEO Abel says 'we're back to first base' in wildfire litigation
Airlines scramble to help stranded Spirit passengers after budget carrier collapses
Thousands flock to illegal French rave despite explosives risk