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Jul 14, 2025 · CNN is tracking the evolving firings and layoffs at federal offices in Washington and across the United States.

Mar 8, 2025 · President Donald Trump said there was “no clash” between Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio after The New York Times reported the pair had it out in a …

Aug 13, 2025 · The National Guard began to appear in Washington, DC, tonight, a day after President Donald Trump placed the nation’s capital’s police department “under direct federal …

Feb 3, 2025 · President Donald Trump signed stiff new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China on Saturday, fulfilling a campaign promise to impose significant new taxes on imports from the …

Politics Analysis: How the White House is using misleading comparisons to make inflation sound better Almost eight years later, Trump confirms he used the phrase ‘shithole countries’

Jul 17, 2025 · He has been very low-profile in terms of national politics over the course of these first six months of the Trump term.

Since the Supreme Court protected transgender people from discrimination, ‘The backlash has been brutal ...

Mar 20, 2018 · Today in politics By Meg Wagner, CNN Updated 12:40 PM EDT, Tue March 20, 2018 Subtitles Off