Schumer does not rule out including debt limit in Democrats’ economic package
By Jessica Dean, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did not rule out including raising the nation’s borrowing…
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Man caught with machete near DNC is charged as new details of White supremacist views emerge
By Marshall Cohen, CNN The man who was caught with a machete and bayonet-style knife near the Democratic Party headquarters was formally charged…
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By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced federal computer fraud charges against three men who allegedly helped build a…
Continue Reading Woodward/Costa book details GOP infighting over how to handle Trump after election loss
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN In their new book “Peril,” Bob Woodward and Robert Costa document how top…
Continue Reading Biden to call on world leaders to commit to vaccinating 70% of world by next year
By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will urge world leaders to collectively commit to vaccinating 70% of the world’s population against…
Continue Reading US military branches set deadline for members to be vaccinated against Covid-19
By Ellie Kaufman and Oren Liebermann, CNN Four US military branches have set deadlines for when active-duty, reserve and National Guard service…
Continue Reading New Woodward/Costa book: Trump secret memo ordering withdrawal from Afghanistan blindsided national security team
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Just eight days after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump was so determined to end…
Continue Reading Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could ‘go rogue,’ Milley took top-secret action to protect nuclear weapons
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book “Peril” takes a look into the White House under Trump’s presidency and reveals a private phone call between…
Continue Reading Biden administration expected to release aid to Egypt despite human rights concerns
By Alex Marquardt, CNN The Biden administration plans to release most of a controversial $300 million tranche of aid for Egypt, with less than half…
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Continue Reading How to watch the California recall
By Rachel Janfaza, CNN It’s Election Day in California, where voters are deciding the recall fate of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The ballot…
Continue Reading Senators seeking answers on Afghanistan express frustration with Biden administration
Rep. Kinzinger: “Completely unsatisfied” with Blinken’s testimony on Afghanistan before House…
Continue Reading Senators seeking answers on Afghanistan express frustration with Biden administration
By Nicole Gaouette, CNN Senate Republicans and Democrats expressed deep frustration with the Biden administration Tuesday, complaining that Secretary…
Continue Reading Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could ‘go rogue,’ Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons
By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump’s top…
Continue Reading Second official departs DHS as agency grapples with border surge and Afghanistan refugee influx
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN David Shahoulian, a senior Biden official at the Department of Homeland Security and influential figure on border issues,…
Continue Reading Biden’s spending bill could be Democrats’ last hope of achieving meaningful climate action as crisis worsens
By Ella Nilsen, CNN After decades of inaction from the United States on climate, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats face a reckoning.…
Continue Reading Justice Department limits use of chokeholds and ‘no-knock’ warrants
By Christina Carrega Federal law enforcement officers will be prohibited from using chokeholds and “carotid restraints” unless deadly…
Continue Reading Poverty rose in 2020 amid pandemic even as stimulus payments helped some 11.7 million Americans avoid it
By Tami Luhby, CNN The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7…
Continue Reading Democrats cut deal with Manchin to get party behind long-shot voting overhaul bill
By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Democrats are proposing new legislation to overhaul voting laws after months of discussions to…
Continue Reading 6 things to watch Tuesday in California’s recall election
By Dan Merica and Eric Bradner, CNN The attempted recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom will reach its crescendo on Tuesday, with polls and ballot…
Continue Reading Memo shows how Homeland Security restricted flow of ‘election-related’ intelligence ahead of 1/6
By Zachary Cohen, CNN A few months before rioters stormed the US Capitol, the Department of Homeland Security restricted the flow of open-source…
Continue Reading Boston to vote in first leg of historic mayoral campaign
By Gregory Krieg, CNN The city of Boston will select the two finalists for its November mayoral election on Tuesday in a preliminary contest that…
Continue Reading Obamas, Bushes and Clintons teaming up in effort to aid Afghan refugees
By Betsy Klein, CNN The Presidents’ club is teaming up to aid in a massive, bipartisan effort to welcome and support Afghan refugees that is…
Continue Reading California Gov. Gavin Newsom was facing a tight race. Then Larry Elder came along.
How many candidates are running in the California gubernatorial recall election? And could a Republican really win such a Democrat-leaning state?…
Continue Reading California Gov. Gavin Newsom was facing a tight race. Then Larry Elder came along.
By Maeve Reston, CNN Earlier this year, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom was searching for the right message to convince disengaged Democrats to…
Continue Reading Biden links Elder to Trump on eve of California recall
By Dan Merica, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday offered his full-throated support of California Gov. Gavin Newsom as the pair attempted to thwart…
Continue Reading Democratic divisions threaten to bog down Biden’s economic package
By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Senate Democrats returned to Washington on Monday suggesting they were far away from reaching a deal on a $3.5…
Continue Reading Top US spy says Somalia, Yemen, Syria and Iraq represent greater terrorist threat than Afghanistan
By Katie Bo Williams, CNN Afghanistan is no longer the US’ top concern among international terrorist threats to the American homeland, the…
Continue Reading Ocasio-Cortez calls out Manchin for referring to her as ‘young lady’
By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out fellow Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Sunday after the West Virginia senator referred…
Continue Reading Administration to start clemency process for some federal inmates on home confinement due to Covid conditions
As Kentucky’s Covid-19 hospitalization rate soars, the governor has deployed National Guard members to help hospitals nearing their breaking point.…
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