Biden administration to raise refugee cap to 125,000 for 2022
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is planning to raise the refugee cap for fiscal year 2022 to 125,000, according to a source…
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Supreme Court to hear restrictive Mississippi abortion law on December 1
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning a Mississippi abortion law on December 1, the court…
Continue Reading Democrats set up showdown with GOP by attaching debt limit to bill to avert government shutdown
By Clare Foran, Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer, CNN When the House of Representatives comes back into session this week, averting a government…
Continue Reading House Democrats face critical decision as government funding and debt limit deadlines loom
House Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that if it’s necessary for Democrats to vote along party lines to raise the debt…
Continue Reading Indicted Trump Org. ex-CFO Weisselberg expects more indictments, his lawyer says
By Tierney Sneed, Kara Scannell and Yon Pomrenze, CNN Allen Weisselberg — the former Trump Organization CFO who has been charged by Manhattan…
Continue Reading Biden is mobilizing the federal government to deal with the effects of extreme heat
By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden is mobilizing an interagency effort to deal with the effects of extreme heat across the country, the White…
Continue Reading US to ease travel restrictions on fully vaccinated foreign visitors
By Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN The United States plans to ease travel restrictions on all fully vaccinated foreign visitors…
Continue Reading Pelosi faces internal Democratic strife as key deadline could sink Biden agenda
By Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a major dilemma: September 27 — the day she promised a vote on a…
Continue Reading Mississippi GOP governor defends Covid response despite highest number of deaths per capita in US
CNN’s Jake Tapper pushes back on Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, who defends his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic despite having…
Continue Reading Democrats unlikely to get immigration measure in $3.5 trillion budget proposal after Senate parliamentarian ruling
By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Democrats likely will not be able to include a pathway to legalization for millions of immigrants in…
Continue Reading Homeland Security chief to travel to US Southern border as thousands crowd in makeshift camp
CNN’s Jim Acosta presses Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about plans to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti to deter…
Continue Reading Homeland Security chief to travel to US Southern border as thousands crowd in makeshift camp
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday he will travel to the US southern border as the Biden administration…
Continue Reading Clyburn says there is a ‘possibility’ infrastructure vote could be delayed
House Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that delaying the Sept. 27 infrastructure vote deadline is “always a…
Continue Reading Clyburn says there is a ‘possibility’ infrastructure vote could be delayed
By Daniella Diaz, Aaron Pellish and Devan Cole, CNN House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Sunday that there is a “possibility” the vote on…
Continue Reading Mississippi GOP governor defends Covid response despite highest number of deaths per capita in US
CNN’s Jake Tapper presses Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic as Mississippi reports the highest…
Continue Reading Mississippi GOP governor defends Covid response despite highest number of deaths per capita in US
By Chandelis Duster, CNN Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Sunday stood by his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, despite having the…
Continue Reading The spike in gun violence continues, with 2021 on pace to be the worst year in decades
By Holmes Lybrand, CNN So far, 2021 is on pace to be the worst year for gun violence in decades, surpassing even the high levels last year. According…
Continue Reading Democrats want to tax the very rich. Here’s who they are
By Tami Luhby, CNN President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats want to raise taxes on the rich to pay for their $3.5 trillion plan to expand the…
Continue Reading Breyer defends state of Supreme Court in interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter As the Supreme Court finds itself in an unwelcome political spotlight at the start of a new term,…
Continue Reading Texas doctor says he violated the state’s strict new abortion law
By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN A Texas doctor is publicly revealing that he violated a state law that bans abortions after six weeks and says…
Continue Reading Fact check: Are Biden’s vaccine mandates ‘unlawful’?
By Tara Subramaniam, CNN President Joe Biden’s new vaccine requirements could apply to as many as 100 million Americans, or almost two-thirds…
Continue Reading Biden administration has made little progress towards goal of closing notorious Guantanamo Bay prison
By Ellie Kaufman, CNN President Joe Biden has said he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, where 39 detainees still reside, by the…
Continue Reading DHS to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti as migrants overwhelm US southern border
CNN’s Rosa Flores reports from Del Rio, Texas, where thousands of migrants are practically living under a bridge awaiting processing into the…
Continue Reading Rep. Lee Zeldin announces he was diagnosed with leukemia last fall and is in remission
By Daniella Diaz and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is running for governor of New York, said in a statement Saturday he was…
Continue Reading CIA warned children were possibly present seconds before US missile killed 10
By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Just after the US military launched a Hellfire missile to stop a white Toyota Corolla it…
Continue Reading FBI ramps up investigations of threats against election officials
By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The FBI has stepped up investigations of threats against election officials — in some cases, reaching out for the…
Continue Reading RBG’s legacy one year after the liberal icon’s death
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer One year after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, schools…
Continue Reading DHS to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti as migrants overwhelm US southern border
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security plans to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti to deter Haitians who are overwhelming…
Continue Reading Maricopa County and Arizona GOP-led Senate reach agreement after months of partisan sparring over 2020 ballots
By Andy Rose and Stephanie Becker, CNN Arizona’s Maricopa County and the Republican-controlled state Senate have reached an agreement after a…
Continue Reading Why we’re talking about the debt limit again
By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Republicans and Democrats in Washington are gearing up for their occasional fight over raising the US debt limit. Also known…
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