Month: November 2025

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A senior Justice Department official has told Congress that the Trump administration can continue lethal military strikes on alleged drug traffickers without congressional approval and that the administration is not bound by a decades-old war powers law, two congressional sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The head of

By Michael Rios, Avery Schmitz, Matt Stiles, CNN (CNN) — The US military has killed 83 people in 21 strikes that have destroyed 22 boats as part of a campaign that Washington says is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States. There had been three survivors of those strikes, two of

By Gloria Pazmino, Arit John, CNN New York (CNN) — Rama Duwaji isn’t playing the traditional role of a first lady in waiting. She hasn’t stumped for Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee and front-runner she married earlier this year. She hasn’t done a joint television appearance or agreed to a splashy

By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — Native American leaders warned senators last week that mass layoffs and potential benefit lapses are making this government shutdown more painful for their communities and insisted that the federal government fulfill its treaty obligations with tribal nations. “The shutdown reductions in force have crept into our classrooms, our early

By Eric Levenson, CNN New York (CNN) — As a Jew and a New Yorker, Norman Needleman said he finds the city’s mayoral election “painful.” Waiting in line Friday to vote on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the 77-year-old Needleman thought Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist, would be good for the city’s social needs. But