Bipartisan infrastructure talks sputtering along with little time left
By Lauren Fox, CNN After spending the weekend negotiating, lawmakers have yet to clinch a bipartisan infrastructure deal, a precarious sign for…
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US to keep existing Covid-related travel restrictions
By Jeremy Diamond and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House has decided to maintain existing coronavirus travel restrictions amid surging cases…
Continue Reading Bipartisan infrastructure talks sputtering along with little time left
On CNN’s State of the Union, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania joins Jake Tapper to discuss the ongoing infrastructure negotiations in…
Continue Reading ‘What you’re doing is unprecedented’: McCarthy-Pelosi feud boils over
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is pulling his five Republican members selected to join the House committee that’s investigating the January 6…
Continue Reading ‘What you’re doing is unprecedented’: McCarthy-Pelosi feud boils over
By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN The relationship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was never very warm. Now…
Continue Reading Biden’s infrastructure deal on shaky ground as blame game begins
By Clare Foran and Manu Raju, CNN President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal is in a perilous state with Republicans and Democrats…
Continue Reading Trump’s appointees are turning the Supreme Court to the right with different tactics
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The three appointees of former President Donald Trump have together sealed the…
Continue Reading Growing group of GOP members wants McCarthy to punish Kinzinger and Cheney for joining January 6 committee
By Ryan Nobles and Melanie Zanona, CNN A growing group of rank-and-file House Republicans wants House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP…
Continue Reading GOP Rep. Clay Higgins says he has Covid
By Morgan Rimmer and Daniella Diaz, CNN GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana posted on Facebook Sunday evening that he, his wife and his son all have…
Continue Reading US general vows to continue airstrikes supporting Afghan troops fighting Taliban
By Samantha Beech, CNN The US will continue airstrikes in support of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, a top US general said Sunday. Violence has…
Continue Reading Fauci: ‘I’m very frustrated’ with vaccine holdouts
Chief Biden Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that the latest covid surge “is an unnecessary predicament we’re putting…
Continue Reading Jill Biden brings a dose of normalcy to Olympic Games amid a pandemic
By Kate Bennett, CNN At a very not-normal Olympic Games kick-off, first lady Jill Biden was, outside of the athletes themselves, perhaps the only…
Continue Reading Ohio House primary reveals Democratic divides that could play out across the 2022 midterm map
By Eric Bradner, CNN A congressional primary in Ohio is revealing the generational and ideological fissures in the Democratic Party that have been…
Continue Reading GOP senator warns against treating funding as ‘Monopoly money’ as infrastructure negotiations come to a head
By Chandelis Duster, Kaitlan Collins and Lauren Fox, CNN Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday warned against treating federal funding as…
Continue Reading Arkansas’ governor defends decision to approve a statewide ban on mask mandates
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he doesn’t plan to impose a mask mandate nor a vaccine mandate in Arkansas at this time, despite the state’s…
Continue Reading Arkansas’ governor defends decision to approve a statewide ban on mask mandates
By Devan Cole, CNN Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Sunday defended his decision to approve a statewide ban on face mask mandates earlier this year,…
Continue Reading Fauci: ‘We’re going in the wrong direction’ on Covid-19 cases
By Chandelis Duster, CNN Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the US is “going in the wrong direction” as the number of Covid-19 cases…
Continue Reading Pelosi appoints Kinzinger to 1/6 House select committee
By Daniella Diaz, Melanie Zanona and Aaron Pellish, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday she has appointed GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger to the…
Continue Reading Tom Barrack and the influence he had in Trump’s world
By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN When Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president in 2016, a little-known businessperson…
Continue Reading US to keep existing Covid-related travel restrictions
The US is now averaging more than 43,000 cases of Covid-19 a day as the Delta variant fuels a 65% jump in cases. CNN’s Polo Sandoval…
Continue Reading NSA review finds no evidence supporting Tucker Carlson’s claims NSA was spying on him, sources say
By Jeremy Herb, CNN A National Security Agency review of its intercepts did not find any evidence that Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s…
Continue Reading What the For the People Act would mean for veterans with disabilities
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Deployed to Iraq in 2003, US Marine Corps field radio operator Joanna Sweatt took cover in tight-spaced bunkers for…
Continue Reading Bumble match turns in January 6 suspect who allegedly whipped police
CNN’s Marshall Cohen walks through how a match on the dating app Bumble led to a Capitol riot suspect being arrested by…
Continue Reading Justice Department says it will not investigate Covid-19 nursing home deaths in several states
By Sunlen Serfaty and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Department of Justice will not open a civil investigation into the Covid-19 response in state…
Continue Reading Boosters, masks and mandates: Biden’s team sorts through options for containing Covid surge among unvaccinated Americans
By Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration is debating a series of steps to further contain the Covid-19 pandemic, which, after 18 months, is…
Continue Reading Staff director for 1/6 committee accused of retaliating against whistleblower
By Ryan Nobles and Natasha Bertrand, CNN David Buckley, the newly named staff director for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6…
Continue Reading New Capitol Police chief says he’d be ‘a fool to not be concerned’ about ongoing threat
By Rachel Janfaza, CNN In his first day on the job, Tom Manger — the new chief of the US Capitol Police — said Friday that he would be…
Continue Reading Bumble match turns in January 6 suspect who allegedly whipped police
By Marshall Cohen Yet another US Capitol suspect was caught this week, all thanks to his Bumble match. Prosecutors say Andrew Taake of Texas used the…
Continue Reading Defense Department has had about 2,000 breakthrough Covid cases
By Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The Department of Defense has experienced about 2,000 breakthrough Covid-19 cases among its more than 2…
Continue Reading The week in 12 headlines
By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, Senate Republicans blocked a key vote to start debate on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill long sought by President…
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