House passes $715 billion transportation and water infrastructure bill
By Clare Foran, CNN The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to approve a $715 billion transportation and water infrastructure bill focused on…
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Trump Organization CFO surrenders after grand jury indictments
Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney’s office ahead of expected criminal…
Continue Reading SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS: BIDEN TO VISIT SURFSIDE (6aET)
Rescue crews pull in more resources as children are identified among the 18 killed in a Florida condo…
Continue Reading ‘Never give up hope’: Biden reprises role as consoler-in-chief during South Florida visit
By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden, whose empathy amid loss is his chief political characteristic, traveled Thursday to console families in…
Continue Reading Republican trip to the border highlights how proxy voting has changed Congress
By Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Sarah Fortinsky, CNN Rep. Madison Cawthorn once opposed the special Covid-era rule that lets House members vote…
Continue Reading Surgeon General on Delta variant: If you are not vaccinated, you are in trouble
US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says he is concerned that the Detla variant of Covid-19 is behind the rise in cases of coronavirus in the US and…
Continue Reading Prosecutors charge Trump Organization with a 15-year tax scheme
By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg is appearing in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday…
Continue Reading Trump Organization indicted by grand jury for ex-president’s business deals
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s company and his longtime finance chief have been indicted on charges stemming from a New York investigation into the…
Continue Reading Concern at collapsed building’s twin
Falling debris hinders rescuers at the Surfside high rise collapse; Miami-Dade’s mayor supports a grand jury probe; sister building seems in better…
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Trump visits Texas to tour ‘unfinished’ border wall with Gov. Abbott
(Editor’s note: In the video players above, first is Trump and Abbott’s appearance together at the border, in the second player is their complete…
Continue Reading State Department unveils new LGBTQ-inclusive policies for passports applicants
By Devan Cole, CNN Transgender Americans can now more easily change the sex marker on their US passports, the State Department announced Wednesday,…
Continue Reading Trump visits the South Texas border amid a shift in the region toward Republicans
By Daniella Diaz, CNN Former President Donald Trump still wants a wall on the southern border. And he said it’s Democrats’ fault it…
Continue Reading Friends and family of Capitol rioter caught on video dragging a cop tell judge he was ‘helping’ the officer
By Marshall Cohen, CNN Friends and family members of a US Capitol rioter charged with dragging a police officer into the violent mob told a federal…
Continue Reading Concern at collapsed building’s twin
Falling debris hinders rescuers at the Surfside high rise collapse; Miami-Dade’s mayor supports a grand jury probe; sister building seems in better…
Continue Reading Federal agency to investigate Florida building collapse
By Kristen Holmes and Kaitlan Collins, CNN A federal agency announced Wednesday evening that it will launch an investigation into what caused the…
Continue Reading Parents of 368 migrant children separated at border under Trump have still not been found, court filing says
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Attorneys are still trying to reach the parents of 368 migrant children who had been separated at the US-Mexico border…
Continue Reading Biden signs bill repealing Trump-era EPA rule on methane emissions
By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a bill repealing a Trump-era rule that rolled back regulations on methane emissions…
Continue Reading DHS raises alarms over potential for summer violence pegged to August conspiracy theory
By Zachary Cohen and Geneva Sands, CNN Department of Homeland Security officials are warning that the same sort of rhetoric and false narratives that…
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A day after vote count debacle, revised numbers show Democrat Eric Adams has thin lead in NYC mayoral primary
NEW YORK (AP) – Revised vote counts in New York City’s mayoral primary show Democrat Eric Adams has maintained a thin lead. Elections…
Continue Reading States are so flush with funds, many are cutting taxes
By Tami Luhby, CNN While states feared the coronavirus pandemic would wreak havoc on their budgets and force them to slash services, it turns out…
Continue Reading Huge backlogs and broken printers plague IRS, taxpayer advocate reports
By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service still had more than 35 million tax returns to process at the end of this year’s filing…
Continue Reading Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88
Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense under Republican Presidents George W. Bush and Gerald Ford, has died, according to a statement from his family.…
Continue Reading Only two House Republicans vote for the January 6 select committee
By Kristin Wilson and Clare Foran, CNN Only two House Republicans — Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois — voted…
Continue Reading U.S. House votes to launch new probe of Jan. 6 insurrection
WASHINGTON, DC — Split along party lines, the U.S. House launched a new investigation of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection on Wednesday, approving a…
Continue Reading Cheney calls select committee ‘our only remaining option’ and attacks GOP leaders for appeasing Trump
By Jamie Gangel and Alex Rogers, CNN Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney sharply criticized Republican leaders ahead of a vote Wednesday to create a select…
Continue Reading Donald Rumsfeld, former secretary of defense, dies at 88
By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has died at the age of 88, according to a…
Continue Reading Ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dies at 88 in New Mexico
TAOS, New Mexico — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled…
Continue Reading Pelosi stands by infrastructure strategy despite pushback
By Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated on Wednesday that she stands by her assertion that the House won’t take up a…
Continue Reading Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoes GOP-backed election overhaul bill
By Dianne Gallagher and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Wednesday vetoed a Republican-backed election overhaul bill that…
Continue Reading Fact check: Biden keeps repeating a false story about an Amtrak conductor he knew
By Daniel Dale, CNN On Tuesday, President Joe Biden repeated a vivid story he has been telling since at least his 2020 presidential campaign.…
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