Trouble in the Arctic, an engineering marvel, why Democrats are frustrated: Catch up on the day’s stories
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Lucas Hunter loves to kitesurf, so along with his sister Sophie he planned a trip to Colombia to take advantage of the “good waves” in the north of the country in late December last year.
Americans are not impressed with President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the economy, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, putting him underwater on the nation’s top issue even as he sees ratings among the best of his presidential career on other key priorities.
Authorities have ramped up their efforts by air, sea and land to track down the 20-year-old University of Pittsburgh student who went missing six days ago while vacationing in the Dominican Republic resort town of Punta Cana.
Republicans are at a standstill over their investigation relitigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, with House Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republican leading the effort disagreeing on how to move forward.
When attorneys for Mahmoud Khalil enter a courthouse on Wednesday, they will have one mission in mind: to get their client, a Palestinian activist, released.
The Trump administration said it is using intelligence collected by the Department of Homeland Security to identify international students who participated in protests against the Israel-Hamas war across dozens of college campuses last year, days after a Palestinian activist was detained by federal agents over protests at Columbia University.
A Republican Maine state representative has filed a lawsuit alleging the state’s House speaker and other Democrats violated her First Amendment rights and disenfranchised her constituents by censuring her last month and barring from speaking or voting on the House floor.
The Ontario premier is now a ubiquitous presence on US cable news as he pushes back against US tariffs on Canadian goods while telling Americans that “Canada is not for sale” in the face of Trump’s threat to turn it into the 51st state.
Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday succeeded in a high-stakes House vote to pass President Donald Trump’s plan to fund the government into the fall, overcoming far-right opposition as the GOP scrambles to avert a government shutdown Friday at midnight.
The search for 20-year-old college student Sudiksha Konanki, who went missing while on vacation in the Dominican Republic last week, continues. Here is a timeline of developments that, according to officials, occurred before, during and after her disappearance.
The US Education Department will start sweeping layoffs beginning Tuesday evening, three sources familiar with the plan tell CNN, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminated the agency altogether.
All Department of Education offices will be closed Tuesday evening and Wednesday for “security reasons,” according to a memo sent to all employees and obtained by CNN.
President Donald Trump isn’t scheduled to appear in public on Tuesday until after markets close. But by midday, his words had already spooked investors. After threatening a new round of tariffs in a social media post, markets sank again.