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President Joe Biden spoke over the phone with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the lead Republican negotiator on infrastructure legislation, for five minutes on Tuesday afternoon, as prospects appear to be dimming for a bipartisan agreement. The West Virginia Republican’s senator’s office confirmed the brief discussion but did not provide additional details about the call. Tuesday’s

Vice President Kamala Harris has invited every female senator to the Naval Observatory for dinner next Tuesday, according to a Harris aide and Senate aide, in a show of bipartisanship among a deeply divided Congress. If everyone invited attends, the guest list would consist of 24 female senators — 16 Democrats and eight Republicans. It

US Capitol Police’s main intelligence unit “was aware of the potential for violence” ahead of the January 6 US Capitol attack but failed to share critical threat information with the department’s own officers and other law enforcement partners, a new Senate report says. Specifically, the report notes that the lead USCP intelligence division began gathering

Never-before-heard audio, obtained exclusively by CNN, shows how former President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Rudy Giuliani relentlessly pressured and coaxed the Ukrainian government in 2019 to investigate baseless conspiracies about then-candidate Joe Biden. The audio is of a July 2019 phone call between Giuliani, US diplomat Kurt Volker, and Andriy Yermak, a senior adviser to

Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount defended his decision to shut down his company’s operations and to pay a ransom last month to criminals who locked up its IT systems, telling lawmakers Tuesday his priority was to restore service as quickly as possible. The company did not have a dedicated ransomware response plan despite spending an

President Joe Biden on Tuesday will speak with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the lead Republican negotiator on infrastructure, as prospects appear to be dimming for a bipartisan agreement. The call, originally scheduled for Monday, between the President and the West Virginia GOP senator is now set to take place later Tuesday afternoon, an official told

President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda faces a critical month ahead as he and congressional Democrats work to secure agreements with Republicans on several key items — including a far-reaching infrastructure bill and a policing overhaul — and gear up for action on voting legislation they believe must pass to overcome efforts in GOP-led states to

They both fidget while they talk, like any teenager would when being questioned in front of multiple cameras. One jokes about her imperfect manicure. The other adjusts her necklace that says “Misery.” “Prom is on my birthday,” Lauren Hogg says. “I think it’s going to be great. On my 18th birthday — how much fun!”

A new Senate report reveals previously unknown details about the stunning security breakdowns ahead of the January 6 US Capitol attack, including a finding that the US Capitol Police’s main intelligence unit “was aware of the potential for violence” beforehand. The report adds an authoritative emphasis to previous evidence that there were massive intelligence failures,

A sweeping piece of legislation countering China’s growing economic influence is expected to pass the Senate this week with bipartisan support — a rarity in Washington at the moment. President Joe Biden has expressed support for the bill, which would invest more than $200 billion into American manufacturing, technology, research and development. If the bill

Virginia Democrats will help answer a key question about the power of progressives am this timeid a Joe Biden administration on Tuesday when they select their nominee for November’s gubernatorial election against Republican Glenn Youngkin. The governor’s race features five candidates, including former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is vying to be the first person

Republicans in New Jersey will choose Tuesday between an establishment-backed candidate for governor who would prefer to avoid the topic of former President Donald Trump and contenders who have forcefully embraced Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. Four candidates are competing in a primary to take on Gov. Phil Murphy, who is unopposed in the

Vice President Kamala Harris is facing the first major diplomatic test of her vice presidency as she looks to tackle the root causes of migration toward the US in her full day of meetings in Guatemala. Harris has been eager to burnish her foreign policy credentials after entering office with little experience in that realm.

The Justice Department argued in a brief filed Monday that it should be permitted to substitute itself for former President Donald Trump as defendant in a defamation lawsuit brought by a longtime magazine columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of rape, continuing the argument it had initiated under the previous administration even as the

President Joe Biden has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the White House this summer, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday. Sullivan said Biden discussed the visit during a call with Zelensky earlier Monday afternoon as part of a planned discussion ahead of Biden’s upcoming trip to Europe. Zelensky confirmed the invitation,

Senate Democrats are openly frustrated with the immovable man in their caucus — Sen. Joe Manchin — and are now resigned to the likelihood that a bulk of their party’s agenda stands little chance of passing the evenly divided Senate unless 10 Republicans break ranks. Manchin, who for years has defended the right of the

Former President Barack Obama said his struggles early in life were “similar” to those of the young men he mentors in Chicago while reflecting on his path to the presidency in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that aired Monday. Obama’s interview with Cooper comes after his latest memoir, “A Promised Land,” was published

New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Monday compared fellow Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and said he is trying to thwart President Joe Biden’s agenda after the West Virginia lawmaker stood by his decision to vote against a sweeping voting rights bill and opposition to gutting the filibuster. “Joe Manchin

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the Biden administration is looking “at every possible contingency” to help thousands of Afghans who may be at risk of retaliation from the Taliban after US forces withdraw but his answers left lawmakers and advocates frustrated. The top US diplomat told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that

The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva next week, saying it’s “vital” to protecting America’s interests. “At the end of the day, what we are looking to do is for the two Presidents to be able to send a clear signal … to their teams

A classified report drafted last year warning that the CovId-19 pandemic might have leaked from a lab in Wuhan has reemerged as a focal point with lawmakers seeking to revive the search for answers. The report, which was issued by researchers at the government-backed Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in May 2020, found that it was