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By Nikki Carvajal and Donald Judd, CNN The fraught politics of tax season have been met by the White House with a perhaps surprising response: a welcoming embrace. The Biden administration has moved this week to elevate the moment, making the case that President Joe Biden’s law that surged $80 billion to the Internal Revenue

By Arlette Saenz and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden earned $579,514 in 2022, slightly lower than their previous year’s earnings, according to new tax returns released Tuesday by the White House. The release comes on the deadline for Americans to file their taxes with the Internal Revenue Service. The

By Hadas Gold and Richard Allen Greene, CNN US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will visit Israel on his first trip abroad as speaker, and address its parliament, the Knesset, he announced on Tuesday. He’ll be only the second US speaker in history to address the Knesset, and the first one to do so this millennium,

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department has established a special taskforce to deal with the crisis in Sudan, a spokesperson told CNN Tuesday. “The State Department has established a Sudan Military Conflict Task Force to oversee the Department’s planning, management, and logistics related to events in Sudan,” the spokesperson said. A notice about

By Tierney Sneed Senate Democrats railed against Justice Clarence Thomas on Tuesday amid reports that the Supreme Court conservative failed to disclose luxury travel, gifts and a real estate transaction involving a GOP megadonor, but their plan to investigate the conservative jurist remains unclear. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin has promised that his committee will

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis met behind closed doors with a select group of congressional Republicans on Tuesday evening in Washington as he seeks support from within his party to challenge Donald Trump for the GOP nomination in 2024. He was coy about his future presidential ambitions and did not divulge details

By Sara Murray, CNN The Fulton County District Attorney’s office said some fake electors for Donald Trump have implicated each other in potential criminal activity and is seeking to disqualify their lawyer, according to a new court filing. The district attorney’s office is requesting that attorney Kimberly Bourroughs Debrow be disqualified from representing a group

By Melanie Zanona and Haley Talbot, CNN Speaker Kevin McCarthy made a plea to House Republicans during a closed-door meeting Tuesday morning to back his debt ceiling plan, telling them that although it doesn’t have to include everything they want, it will help get him to the negotiating table with President Joe Biden. McCarthy also

By Tami Luhby, CNN Just how much longer the federal government can keep paying its bills on time and in full depends greatly on this year’s tax collections. With tax season coming to a close for many filers on Tuesday, the Treasury Department will soon know the amount of tax revenue it has received for

By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed an executive order in the Rose Garden that issues more than 50 directives across nearly every Cabinet-level agency in an effort to expand access to long-term care and child care. Biden, flanked by child care and family care advocates and providers, called the executive order

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court seemed to side with a former mail carrier, an evangelical Christian, who says the US Postal Service failed to accommodate his request to not work on Sundays. A lower court had ruled against the worker, Gerald Groff, holding that his request would cause an

By Jack Forrest and Brian Rokus, CNN Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan had surgery Monday to remove a small cancerous tumor in his tonsil, his office said. Kildee, who announced last month that he’d been diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, will stay at George Washington University Hospital “for the next several days as part

By Sean Lyngaas, Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Officials from the FBI and Navy are investigating the role a pro-Russia social media account had in spreading photos of classified US documents online — and have contacted a former Navy noncommissioned officer who was affiliated with the account, multiple people familiar with the matter told

By Jack Forrest, CNN Embattled GOP Rep. George Santos announced Monday he will seek reelection in 2024 to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District, defying the calls from some Republicans on Capitol Hill and in his district to step aside. “I’m proud to announce my candidacy to run for re-election and continue to serve the

CNN’s Nicky Robertson Sen. John Fetterman has returned to the Senate after receiving treatment for clinical depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The Pennsylvania Democrat began inpatient treatment in February and was discharged at the end of March. “It’s great to be back,” he told reporters as he arrived at the Capitol Monday

By Sean Lyngaas and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN A member of the private online chatroom where a major leak of US classified documents surfaced has defended 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who was charged in connection to the leak on Friday, telling CNN that Teixeira shared the classified material to keep other members informed, “so we won’t be

By Annie Grayer and Sara Murray, CNN House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are exemplifying the lengths they are willing to go to discredit Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against former President Donald Trump with a Monday New York field hearing on Bragg’s home turf. House Republicans are seeking to make the case

By Daniel Dale As former President Donald Trump and his allies attack Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is prosecuting Trump on felony charges of falsifying business records, the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Monday in Manhattan to castigate Bragg for his handling of violent crime. But Trump and other Republicans, including

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Clarence Thomas intends to amend his financial disclosure forms to reflect a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor — an acknowledgment that the transaction should have been disclosed almost a decade ago, a source close to Thomas tells CNN. The deal between

By Oren Liebermann, CNN A US helicopter raid in northeast Syria targeted a senior ISIS leader and planner early Monday morning, according to a spokesman for US Central Command. “We believe the raid killed a senior ISIS Syria leader and operational planner responsible for planning terror attacks in the Middle East and Europe,” said Col.

By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent House Republican leaders are moving behind the scenes to get their conference behind a plan that would raise the debt ceiling for one year with a slew of cuts and revenue raisers, a move intended to strengthen their negotiating position with the White House in the high-stakes standoff. The

By Jasmine Wright, Shawna Mizelle and Aileen Graef, CNN Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York said Sunday she has “a lot of questions” for the Biden administration about the circumstances around the leak of highly classified Pentagon documents. “I have a lot of questions about: Why were these documents lying around? Why did this

By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN The Kennedys have been through a lot. They don’t want to go through this. No name has appeared on more ballots or lawn signs. Even across branches of the family that have grown distant and divided since the first generation rose to power in the 1960s, they celebrate each cousin’s achievement

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins and Kristen Holmes, CNN Attorney Evan Corcoran recused himself from representing former President Donald Trump in the special counsel investigation related to the Mar-a-Lago documents given that he testified for investigators, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Corcoran’s exit, which was first reported by The Washington Post, was

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Democratic Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado signed a trio of bills Friday that further protect the rights to abortion and gender-affirming services in the state, as access to the so-called abortion pill across the country remains in limbo and some neighboring conservative states have moved to restrict such procedures. Polis’ signature

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on Saturday urged his fellow Republicans to move on from the 2020 presidential election, offering a thinly veiled dig at former President Donald Trump and his continued election grievances. Without naming Trump, Kemp’ said at a private Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville that “not a

By Tami Luhby, CNN Though millions of Americans are expected to be kicked off of Medicaid in coming months, they don’t all have to be left uninsured. But it could take some work to regain health coverage. “For a lot of people, this can be a very disruptive period of time,” said Sabrina Corlette, co-director

By Jeremy Herb and Sean Lyngaas, CNN Jack Teixeira, wearing a green t-shirt and bright red gym shorts with his hands above his head, walked slowly backward toward the armed federal agents outside his home in North Dighton, Massachusetts, who took him into custody on charges of leaking classified documents. The carefully choreographed arrest of

By Casey Gannon, CNN A Connecticut man who assaulted a Washington, DC, police officer during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was sentenced on Friday to seven and a half years in prison. Patrick McCaughey III, 25, was found guilty on nine charges during a bench trial in September 2022, including seven

By Steve Contorno, CNN Floridians woke up Friday morning to discover Gov. Ron DeSantis had signed into law a six-week abortion ban overnight, meeting behind closed doors with a select group of invited guests to give final approval to a bill that had just passed the state legislature earlier in the day. In backing a

By Holmes Lybrand, Maegan Vazquez and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration announced a significant series of actions on Friday intended to target those involved with the deadly influx of illegal fentanyl into the United States stemming from Mexico and chemicals supplied from China. The actions include criminal charges announced by the Department of Justice

By Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray, CNN Federal prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents are pressing multiple witnesses for details about their attorneys, including whether any of them have attempted to influence testimony in order to protect the former president, multiple sources tell CNN. Investigators have focused these questions toward a

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The sister of Paul Whelan, a US citizen who is wrongfully detained in Russia, on Thursday expressed frustration at her brother’s continued imprisonment in Russia and called on the White House to bring him home. “Paul Whelan deserves better than he is getting for results. He has the White House attention

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court held Friday that a party involved in a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission or the Securities and Exchange Commission does not have to wait until a final determination in the proceeding has been issued before bringing a constitutional challenge to the agency’s structure

By Blake Ellis, Scott Glover, Jeff Winter and Melanie Hicken, CNN Three years ago, before he was granted top secret clearance by the US government and entrusted with highly sensitive eyes-only information intended for officials in the Pentagon, graduating high school senior Jack Teixeira chose the following motto for his yearbook: “Actions speak louder than

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Jeremy Herb, CNN The suspect in the leak of classified Pentagon documents posted on social media has been charged under the Espionage Act with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal of classified information and defense materials. Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old airman with the Massachusetts Air National

By Eric Bradner, Steve Contorno and Kristen Holmes, CNN A slew of 2024 GOP presidential hopefuls courted gun rights activists Friday at a National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis that took place in the wake of mass shootings in Kentucky and Tennessee in recent days. Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence

By Betsy Klein, CNN The nation’s largest employer says it’s time for employees to return to the office more regularly, offering the latest salvo in America’s work from home battle. The Biden administration on Thursday detailed new guidance for a return to work for federal employees, making clear that they must “substantially” increase in-office work.

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe testified before a federal grand jury Thursday in Washington, DC, as part of the special counsel’s criminal probe into the aftermath of the 2020 election. Former President Donald Trump had sought to block testimony from Ratcliffe and other top officials from his administration, but

By Morgan Rimmer and David Wright, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will return to the Senate on Monday following an absence as he recovered from a fall, the Kentucky Republican said Thursday. “I am looking forward to returning to the Senate on Monday. We’ve got important business to tackle and big fights to win

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A US citizen died while volunteering in the fighting in Ukraine Friday, his family told CNN. Edward Wilton, 22, of Florida, had been in Ukraine for nearly a year at the time of his death, his half-brother Parker Cummings told CNN by phone Wednesday. The US Embassy told the family of