Inside Capitol Hill as Trump pushes Republicans to pass his ‘Big Bill'
President Donald Trump appealed to House Republicans Tuesday amid party infighting as hardliners resist Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'. Republican Speaker Mike Johnson dodged questions from CNN's Manu Raju and a gaggle of press in the House gallery, an uncharacteristic move he blamed on the 1:00 am deadline looming over his subcommittee, a decision that ultimately defines how and when this legislation moves forward.
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RFK Jr. and top Democrat spar over HHS cuts
US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into a tense exchange with Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) during a Senate Appropriations hearing. Kennedy accused the committee's top Democrat of standing by as chronic disease spiked in the country after Murray asked a question about childcare and development block grant funding.
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Sources contradict Trump's claim that Qatar jet was offered as a gift
The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN. That's contrary to the narrative from the president that Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a 'gift' to him.
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FDA tightens requirements for Covid-19 vaccine
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How Trump is learning that peace is hard this time around
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Collins asks Trump about meeting with Putin
CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked President Trump in the Oval Office today whether he thinks meeting with Russian President Putin is necessary for peace with Ukraine.
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What happened during Trump and Putin's call
Monday's phone call between Russian leader Vladimir Putin and President Trump marked a turning point in peace talks to end the war in Ukraine. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh lays out what might come next.
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Former President Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer
Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. Biden and his family are currently reviewing treatment options.
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James Comey heads to Secret Service interview amid social media controversy
Former FBI Director James Comey was escorted by US Secret Service agents to their Washington Field Office on Friday afternoon for an interview, according to law enforcement sources. Comey will be interviewed by agents investigating a social media post he posted Thursday showing shells in the sand on a beach spelling out '86 47,' which has become a popular social media code for removing Trump from the presidency, according to the law enforcement source.
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Here are the deals Trump signed during his Middle East trip
CNN's Betsy Klein breaks down the deals that President Donald Trump has brokered during his three-day trip to the Middle East.
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Watch Trump visit the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi as part of his overseas trip
During his first overseas trip of his second term, President Trump visited the Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. CNN's Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins was on the ground in the United Arab Emirates for a look inside.
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Did Comey threaten Trump?
Former Director of the FBI James Comey took down an Instagram post of seashells spelling out the numbers '86 47' after Republicans claimed that it was a threat against President Donald Trump. CNN's John Miller reports.
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The mind behind Trump's economic strategy
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a former Democratic donor and hedge-fund manager with no ties to MAGA. CNN's Phil Mattingly reports on how he rose to become the most important economic voice in the Trump administration.
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Springsteen criticizes Trump administration during show
Bruce Springsteen has criticized President Trump's administration on stage during a performance at the start of his UK tour in Manchester.
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Lawmakers fall asleep during hearing
Republican Rep. Blake Moore and Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell both appeared to fall asleep during what were at-times contentious debates over provisions in President Donald Trump's sweeping tax and spending cuts package.
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Trump's surgeon general pick: Magic mushrooms helped me
CNN's Erin Burnett and CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten look at how President Donald Trump's pick for surgeon general has endorsed therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs and how American attitudes toward the practice are shifting.
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Mistaken arrest leads to teen's ICE detention
A northwest Georgia community voted overwhelmingly for President Donald Trump. Now it's desperately trying to save its residents from being deported. CNN's Dianne Gallagher reports. See the full story on CNN tonight.
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What to expect from Russia and Ukraine peace talks
CNN's Clarissa Ward explains the significance of Russia and Ukraine meeting in Istanbul for peace talks, their first meeting in three years.
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Qatari PM defends offering plane to President Trump
In an interview with CNN's Becky Anderson, Qatari Prime Minister and minister of foreign affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani downplayed the significance of the luxury jet gifted to President Donald Trump, saying it was a "very simple government to government dealing."
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Lawmaker asks RFK Jr. if he'd vaccinate his kids
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See how Trump is being welcomed in Middle East
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Newsom calls for special November election to block Trump from 'rigging' 2026 midterms
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It's not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil and talk about the way the world should be. We have got to recognize the cards that have been dealt, and we have got to meet fire with fire." The governor was joined by Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff; Rep. Pete Aguilar, (D-San Bernardino), the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, and union leaders essential to providing the funding and volunteers to convince Californians to vote for the "Election Rigging Response Act." The proposed California ballot measure would temporarily toss out the congressional districts enacted by the state's voter-approved, independent redistricting commission. "Our union stands in full support of this ballot initiative. We are ready to do whatever it takes to stop this power grab and fight back against any and all attacks on our democracy, on our students and on public education," said Erica Jones, the secretary treasurer of the California Teachers Assn., which represents 310,000 public school teachers. She said school children have suffered because of the Trump administration's immigration raids, as well as cuts to healthcare funding, after school programs and teacher trainings. "Our students deserve better," she said. "The majority of Americans are not with him on these vicious attacks. So what does Trump want to do? Rig the next election and steal our right to fair representation? He wants to stack the deck to keep slashing public services to pad the pockets of his billionaire donors." Outside the political rally, Border Patrol agents gathered and arrested at least one person. Newsom told the crowd inside that he doubted it was a coincidence. Supporters of the independent commission that currently draws California's congressional maps criticized Democrats' efforts to conduct a highly unusual mid-decade redistricting plan. For Newsom's plant to work, the Democratic-led state Legislature must vote in favor of placing the measure on the ballot in a special election in November, and then the final decision will be up to California voters. "Two wrongs do not make a right, and California shouldn't stoop to the same tactics as Texas. Instead, we should push other states to adopt our independent, non-partisan commission model across the country," said Amy Thoma, spokesperson for the Voters First Coalition, which includes Charles Munger Jr., the son of a billionaire who bankrolled the ballot measure that created the independent commission. Munger will vigorously oppose any proposal to circumvent the independent commission, she said. Since voters approved independent congressional redistricting in 2010, California's districts have been drawn once per decade, following the U.S. Census, by a panel split between registered Democrats, registered Republicans and voters without a party preference. The commission is not allowed to consider the partisan makeup of the districts, nor protecting incumbents, but instead looks at "communities of interest," logical geographical boundaries and the Voting Rights Act. The current map was drawn in 2021 and went into effect for the 2022 election. Newsom is pushing to suspend those district lines and put a new map tailored to favor Democrats in front of voters on Nov. 4. That plan, he has said, would have a "trigger," meaning a redrawn map would not take effect unless Texas or another GOP-led state moved forward with its own. Sara Sadhwani, who served on the redistricting commission that approved the current congressional district boundaries, said that while she is deeply proud of the work she and her colleagues completed, she approved of Newsom's effort to temporarily put the commission's work aside because of the unprecedented threats to American democracy. "These are extraordinary times, and extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures," said Sadhwani, citing the immigration raids, the encouragement of political violence and the use of National Guard troops in American cities. "And if that wasn't enough, we are watching executive overreach that no doubt is making our founding fathers turn in their graves, and we have to take action. These are the hallmarks of a democracy in peril." If voters approved the ballot measure, the new maps would be in effect until the independent commission redraws the congressional boundaries in 2031. 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As Texas and California ramp up their redistricting fight, a new study finds gerrymandering erodes confidence in democracy
Researchers identified a connection between highly partisan congressional maps and lower confidence in the integrity of elections. The ongoing partisan battle over gerrymandering could further undermine the confidence of Americans in their democracy, the results of a new study suggest. 'We know that confidence in U.S. elections being conducted fairly has been dwindling — gerrymandering just adds gas to that fire,' Shaun Bowler, a professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside, who coauthored the study, told Yahoo. Right now, Texas Republicans are trying to redraw their state's congressional district map to make it more favorable to their party, potentially securing up to five additional seats for the GOP in the House of Representatives in next year's midterms. That effort is currently on hold, though, because Democratic state lawmakers have fled Texas in order to block the legislature from having enough members present to formally meet. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that he is moving forward with a plan to counter Texas's redistricting effort by asking voters to approve a measure that would allow Democrats to redraw the state's maps. Democrats in New York and Illinois have said they may follow California's lead. Meanwhile, the GOP has been looking at putting more favorable maps in place in other red states like Ohio and Missouri. While we can't know how the redistricting tit-for-tat will ultimately shake out, there is reason to believe that this high-profile fight over congressional maps could weaken voters' already-weakening faith in the U.S. political system, Bowler said. 'A lot of the time gerrymandering really doesn't make the news ... which means a lot of the time it's not very visible to voters,' he said via email. 'But this time ... the news is going national. Even international. So a lot more voters will hear about it. And a lot don't like it.' Americans as a whole have less confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections than they did two decades ago. The biggest cause of that decline is a sharp drop among Republicans tied to President Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. But polls show that faith in democracy was dipping well before Trump became the GOP's standard-bearer, indicating that other factors are playing a role as well. Bowler and his coauthor, Todd Donovan of Western Washington University, analyzed surveys from more than 30,000 voters to understand how gerrymandering impacts views about the integrity of our elections. They found that, while belief in Trump's claims about the election was the most important driver of low trust in democracy, gerrymandering does appear to have a noticeable effect on whether voters think the elections in their states are fair. Unsurprisingly, the biggest drop in confidence was among voters who were on the wrong side of partisan gerrymanders. Democrats in states with strong pro-Republican gerrymanders like Wisconsin and Ohio were more skeptical of the integrity of the elections in their states than Democrats in other states. The same was true for Republicans living in states with gerrymanders designed to benefit Democrats, like Illinois. But Bowler emphasized that this isn't purely about sour grapes. Voters who belong to the party that benefits from a gerrymander can also be affected by the perception that the electoral victories they had hoped for were earned illegitimately, he argued. 'To some extent it doesn't matter if it is 'your' side doing it or not,' he said. 'It's not really fair play.' Bowler expanded on that point in a press release about the study. 'If they didn't win fair and square, why should I believe what they say?' he said. 'Why should I pay my taxes? You get an erosion of civic behavior.' A separate poll released on Thursday added more evidence to support Bowler's argument. It found that Californians oppose Gov. Gavin Newsom's proposal to redistrict their state in response to Texas's potential gerrymander by a two-to-one margin. Other national polls have found that few Americans support the Texas GOP's redistricting plan. They have also found that strong majorities believe partisan gerrymandering is a major problem and that the practice should be illegal. Bowler told Yahoo that even lawmakers who might be indifferent to changes in voters' faith in democracy should be wary of going too far out of their own self-interest. 'Let's say you are a Republican voter in Texas and have voted GOP for years … because of gerrymandering, there is maybe less incentive to turn out and vote,' he said. The belief that results are all but decided well before Election Day could also undermine a party's fundraising, which could make a difference in races where the outcome is more in question, he added. In their study, Bowler and Donovan also looked at how corruption — or even perceptions of corruption — among a state's elected officials affected voters' faith in democracy. They found a similar decline in trust among respondents in states where lawmakers had been convicted of crimes like bribery and campaign finance violations or had faced highly publicized accusations of corruption.
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U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take stake in Intel
The Trump administration continues to meddle with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in discussions to take a a stake in Intel, according to reporting from Bloomberg. This deal would be structured to help the company expand its U.S. manufacturing efforts, including its much-delayed Ohio chip factory. This news comes less than a week after President Donald Trump insisted that Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan resign because of perceived conflicts of interest. While Trump didn't provide a reason, this came after Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton wrote to Intel's board asking about Tan's alleged ties to China. Tan met with the Trump administration on August 11 to quell the administration's fears and figure out ways for the company to work with the government. This meeting is what sparked discussions of the U.S. government taking a direct stake in the company, according to Bloomberg. TechCrunch reached out to Intel for more information. Sign in to access your portfolio
