National Politics

Days after the election, Mike Pence called a close friend for a 30-minute conversation to analyze what had just happened and what it all might mean for the future of the Republican Party. According to this person, the vice president was upbeat about the success of GOP candidates lower down the ballot, but Pence also

Joe Biden’s plan to remake America’s crumbling infrastructure as President is expected to increase the pressure on three key Cabinet picks to work together for results that Americans can see clearly and quickly in the early months of his presidency, sources told CNN. Biden sees a sweeping infrastructure package — a bipartisan issue that is

A more combative Ivanka Trump has emerged with little more than one month left in her role as adviser to President Donald Trump, as the first daughter makes a conscious effort to publicly push back on her critics. According to a source familiar with her thinking, Ivanka Trump recognizes there is a time stamp on

President-elect Joe Biden’s team is in the early stages of considering who to appoint as ambassadors around the world, with a handful of selections for high profile posts expected to come sometime in January, according to three sources familiar with the discussions. Biden’s team has keyed in on a few favorites for ambassador picks, two

Sixty miles west of Atlanta, Haralson County sits a world away from Georgia‘s largest and booming metro area. Here, in the small towns that sit in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains, Republican roots run generations deep. In November, the county voted for Donald Trump over Joe Biden, 87% to 13% — making it one

President Donald Trump raised staggering amounts after losing the White House. Casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson kept donating in the election’s waning days, and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham set a new fundraising high water mark for Senate incumbents. Here are five takeaways from this week’s campaign finance filings: Team Trump lost the White House but

The homeowner in Duluth, Georgia, opened her screen door and softly said, “I’m not good at English.” The two volunteers, clutching clipboards and political fliers, were on the Korean woman’s porch to talk about the January 5 Senate runoffs. “I speak some Korean,” said Grace Pai, in Korean. “It’s terrible,” Pai added in broken Korean.

President Donald Trump is increasingly isolated in his claims of election fraud as a growing number of senior administration officials are either directly contradicting his baseless allegations or refusing to echo them. As the President continues to deny the reality that he lost, his head of intelligence now says that Trump’s claims of voter fraud,

President-elect Joe Biden said Friday that the Trump administration had shared information with his transition team about distributing a vaccine to various states, but Biden said his team had not seen a “detailed plan.” “There is no detailed plan that we’ve seen, anyway, as to how you get the vaccine out of a container, into an injection syringe, into

White House staffers at all levels are plotting their departures as a growing number of aides to President Donald Trump are abandoning his quest to overturn the 2020 election results — some in frustration with the building they are leaving behind. Multiple sources inside and outside the White House cited a variety of reasons for

The Justice Department bribery-for-a-presidential-pardon investigation, which became public this week, involves the past efforts of well-connected Washington lawyer Abbe Lowell and Republican lobbyist and fundraiser Elliott Broidy in the early days of the Trump White House, sources tell CNN. The effort in 2017 — which appears to have begun before Lowell became a lawyer to

The Department of Health and Human Services on Friday launched a national ad campaign promoting awareness about the forthcoming coronavirus vaccines with a modest $150,000 ad buy on YouTube. The ads, which will stream across the video platform, include clips from a six-minute-and-30-second public service announcement video featuring Dr. Anthony Fauci, Food and Drug Administration

The House of Representatives has approved legislation that would decriminalize marijuana and seek to “address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs.” Friday’s vote in the Democratic-led House is the first time a chamber of Congress has voted on federal marijuana decriminalization. It has little chance of passing the Republican-led Senate, however. The

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill that would ban private ownership of big cats like lions and tigers, after the wildly popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” helped renew attention on the issue. The “Big Cat Public Safety Act” passed the House Thursday night on a 272-114 vote, with 48 Republicans voting

What a difference a week makes. On Monday, it looked like nothing was going to happen on stimulus. Now, it’s possible a deal is brokered in a matter of days. It’s crunch time. If a bipartisan group of lawmakers is actually going to unlock a stimulus agreement and present it in writing by Monday, there