President Donald Trump has thrust the country into a significant new phase in his showdown with Venezuela with a CIA strike on a port facility.

Trump’s lying has always been characterized by dogged repetition. It became especially repetitive in 2025. While he continued to regularly sprinkle in new lies, he relied on a core set of go-to ...

Most presidents profess not to interfere in other countries’ domestic politics and elections — despite decades of nefarious US political game-playing abroad.

The Justice Department is denying accusations of a cover-up and of flouting a new law following its partial and extensively redacted releases of files on Jeffrey Epstein in an ever-deepening political ...

Documents released from Jeffrey Epstein, including entirely redacted pages, are seen in this handout released by the DOJ and printed and arranged for a photograph by Reuters in Washington, DC, on ...

In his second term, pop music aficionado Donald Trump looks like he’s actually doing it. And if his shimmy with a Malaysian dance troupe on Sunday is anything to go by, the president is having a ball.

Trump’s Yuletide message lacked such poetry. Instead, he shouted out a seasonal dose of his most dystopian rhetoric. The only crisis is the one that has pulled his approval rating down to 39%, ...

CNN's Audie Cornish expressed surprise at a former White House official's analysis of President Donald Trump's economic ...

At about 4:20 p.m. on a cold Rhode Island Saturday, a message from Brown University flashed up on cellphones all over campus — everyone should run or take cover from an active shooter.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Sen. Tim Kaine, who helped finalize the deal, defended it on CNN Monday. Kaine noted ...

President Donald Trump could do worse than stick to JD Vance’s script in his primetime national address on Wednesday night.