
During a Cabinet meeting at the White House, President Trump announced plans to rebuild Dulles International Airport.

During a Cabinet meeting at the White House, President Trump announced plans to rebuild Dulles International Airport.

The Department of Homeland Security announced the start of a new immigration enforcement operation in New Orleans. CNN's Ryan Young reports.

Despite escalating rhetoric from President Trump that he may strike targets on land in Venezuela "soon,” Caracas’ aviation agency says it’s still receiving communications from Washington about accepting deportation flights. CNN's Stefano Pozzebon explains why Trump is unlikely to strike Venezuela while US planes are in Caracas.

Republican Matt Van Epps will win the special US House election for Tennessee’s 7th District, CNN’s Decision Desk projects, preventing an upset but emboldening Democrats as they were on track to over-perform in a normally deep-red district.

President Trump appeared to doze off during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday. As members of his cabinet heaped praise on the president, his eyes appeared to close multiple times as they spoke.

New scrutiny is emerging over how much Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew about a second strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean in September. While President Trump and the White House have largely confirmed the incident, they continue to distance Hegseth from the order for the controversial ‘double-tap’ attack. CNN’s Natasha Bertrand reports.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he "did not personally see survivors" before the second strike on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean in September.

CNN's Dana Bash breaks down why Tennessee's 7th Congressional District special election is the focus of a lot of attention from both Democrats and Republicans, including a special phone-in by President Trump at a rally on the eve of election day.

CNN's Erin Burnett talks to Republican Congressman Mike Turner of the House Armed Services Committee about the US strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and whether the strikes were illegal.

Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly says he is not intimidated by President Trump suggesting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should open an investigation into Kelly for urging service members to disobey illegal orders.

The White House released a memo from President Donald Trump’s doctor saying that his MRI in October were for his cardiovascular and abdominal systems and that both showed "perfectly normal" results.

A federal appeals court ruled Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, is serving unlawfully as US attorney for New Jersey.

Two top military officials have recently announced they will be stepping down from their posts, the timing of which CNN’s Jake Tapper notes follows scrutiny around the legal justification around lethal strikes against alleged drug boats in the Caribbean, and a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered to "kill everybody" on one of the strikes.

As President Donald Trump ramps up his pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — which the administration says is aimed at cutting off the flow of migrants and drugs from South America — CNN's Dana Bash pressed Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin about Trump potentially pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández sentenced to 45 years in prison for major US drug trafficking charges.



