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By Ellie Kaufman, CNN The Veterans Affairs Department issued guidance stating military service members who were discharged because of their sexual…

By Kate Sullivan, Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden will speak with French President Emmanuel Macron “in the coming…

By Whitney Wild, CNN Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters has written Facebook, Twitter and YouTube,…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is planning to raise the refugee cap for fiscal year 2022 to 125,000, in line with the goal…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning a Mississippi abortion law on December 1, the court…

By Clare Foran, Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer, CNN Congressional Democratic leaders announced on Monday that they will attach a suspension of the…

By Tierney Sneed, Kara Scannell, Yon Pomrenze and Paula Reid, CNN Allen Weisselberg — the former Trump Organization CFO who has been charged by…

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden is mobilizing an interagency effort to deal with the effects of extreme heat across the country, the White…

By Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN The United States plans to ease travel restrictions on all fully vaccinated foreign visitors…

By Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a major dilemma: September 27 — the day she promised a vote on a…

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Democrats likely will not be able to include a pathway to legalization for millions of immigrants in…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday he will travel to the US southern border as the Biden administration…

By Daniella Diaz, Aaron Pellish and Devan Cole, CNN House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Sunday that there is a “possibility” the vote on…

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Sunday stood by his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, despite having the…

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN So far, 2021 is on pace to be the worst year for gun violence in decades, surpassing even the high levels last year. According…

By Tami Luhby, CNN President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats want to raise taxes on the rich to pay for their $3.5 trillion plan to expand the…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter As the Supreme Court finds itself in an unwelcome political spotlight at the start of a new term,…

By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN A Texas doctor is publicly revealing that he violated a state law that bans abortions after six weeks and says…

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN President Joe Biden’s new vaccine requirements could apply to as many as 100 million Americans, or almost two-thirds…

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN President Joe Biden has said he wants to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, where 39 detainees still reside, by the…

By Daniella Diaz and Rachel Janfaza, CNN Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, who is running for governor of New York, said in a statement Saturday he was…

By Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen and Natasha Bertrand, CNN Just after the US military launched a Hellfire missile to stop a white Toyota Corolla it…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The FBI has stepped up investigations of threats against election officials — in some cases, reaching out for the…

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer One year after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, schools…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Rosa Flores, CNN The Department of Homeland Security plans to ramp up deportation flights to Haiti to deter Haitians who are…

By Andy Rose and Stephanie Becker, CNN Arizona’s Maricopa County and the Republican-controlled state Senate have reached an agreement after a…

By Zachary B. Wolf, CNN Republicans and Democrats in Washington are gearing up for their occasional fight over raising the US debt limit. Also known…

By Dan Merica, CNN Photographs by Damon Casarez for CNN The changing climate is everywhere Gustavo Carranza looks when he walks through his…

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Phil Mattingly, CNN A politically weakened President Joe Biden, hoping to spark a turnaround with a renewed focus on…

By Alexandra Meeks, CNN Two of California Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s four children have tested positive for Covid-19, his office said in a statement…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN American and Australian officials have been in highly secret talks for months over a plan to share technology for…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The Biden administration is planning to impose new sanctions to disrupt the source of revenue of ransomware groups that have…

By Katie Bo Williams, CNN A deputy to then-President Donald Trump’s acting secretary of defense held a call with his Chinese counterpart two…

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom held on to his job in a recall election, which President Joe Biden touted as a…

By Tierney Sneed, Dianne Gallagher and Rachel Janfaza, CNN A North Carolina state court panel on Friday blocked a voter identification law, citing…

By Liz Stark, CNN Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced her plans Friday to return the Bureau of Land Management national headquarters to…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN The Biden administration on Friday appealed a federal judge’s ruling to block border authorities…

By Clare Foran and Alex Rogers, CNN GOP Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio announced on Thursday that he will not seek reelection, becoming the first of…

By Tierney Sneed Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing more pressure to reconsider the Justice Department’s decision not to bring any…

By Jim Acosta, Kylie Atwood and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The French government has immediately recalled its ambassadors to the US and Australia for…

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Lauren Fox, CNN A House Republican on Friday publicly pushed back against the Biden administration’s plan to…

By Sam Fossum and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order adding measles to the list of quarantinable diseases…

By Anna Coren, Julia Hollingsworth, Sandi Sidhu and Zachary Cohen, CNN A United States military investigation into a deadly Kabul drone strike on a…

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The French government says it was betrayed when Australia pulled out of their existing multi-billion dollar defense deal,…

By Jessica Schneider, CNN A high-ranking Capitol Police officer, who was also a vocal Donald Trump supporter, told those under his command not to…

By Michael Warren, CNN Mike Pence is adding staffers for his brand-new office in downtown Washington — inching closer to a possible White House…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the line of succession for the president and vice president of the United States. Presidential Succession…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of former US Representative Beto O’Rourke, a former 2020 Democratic presidential…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN More than 50 Democratic lawmakers urged the Biden administration Friday to halt deportations to Haiti as nearly 10,000…

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Gen. Mark Milley on Friday defended the calls he placed to his Chinese counterpart during Donald Trump’s final…

By Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN The White House is warning states that a default caused by failing to raise the federal debt limit could result…

A federal grand jury has indicted cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann as part of a special counsel’s probe into the origins of the…

By Jennifer Hansler, Nima Elbagir and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden signed a new executive order Friday authorizing broad sanctions against…

By Sara Murray and Jason Morris, CNN As Donald Trump returns to Georgia later this month, criminal investigators in the state have been quietly…

By Geneva Sands and Zachary Cohen, CNN A new fence, an information-sharing alert and ramped-up airport security are just a few of the ways law…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter On the verge of a new term in which the Supreme Court will wade back into the culture wars, Justice…

By Dan Merica and Michael Warren, CNN Virginia gubernatorial candidates Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin sparred on Thursday over what each would…

By Dan Merica and Simone Pathe, CNN Rep. Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump…

By Nicole Gaouette, CNN Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to address long-standing complaints that the State Department places…

By Alex Marquardt, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN Amid a rift over a new security agreement between the United States, Australia and the…

By Maegan Vazquez and Arlette Saenz, CNN American officials are defending a new deal to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines after…

By Tierney Sneed Listeners of the St. Louis talk radio show “Tomorrow’s News Today” were treated Wednesday to live audio of Roger…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The White House has informed governors about the number of Afghan refugees they can expect to be resettled in their states…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN In a blog post shared first with CNN, White House economists argue that President Joe Biden’s climate agenda will not only…

By Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN A federal grand jury has indicted cybersecurity lawyer Michael Sussmann as part of a special counsel’s…

By Geneva Sands, CNN The Department of Homeland Security warned Thursday about the potential for violence from people involved in or opposed to the…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Hackers breached the Republican Governors Association in February, potentially exposing the personal data of nearly 500 people…

By Eric Bradner and Dan Merica, CNN Immediately after Gavin Newsom beat back a recall effort, Democratic officials in California called for reforms…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A federal judge blocked the Biden administration from expelling migrant families with children apprehended at the US-Mexico…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The House Oversight and Reform Committee announced Thursday it is launching an investigation into fossil fuel industry…

By Rosa Flores, Kacey Cherry, Rosalina Nieves and Melissa Alonso, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday he has directed the Texas Department of…

By Daniel Dale Swing state by swing state, former President Donald Trump is trying to get people who tried to overturn the 2020 election chosen to be…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Infighting within the Biden administration over the onslaught of challenges facing officials has, at times, stalled…

By Zachary Cohen, CNN New satellite images obtained by CNN reveal North Korea is expanding a key facility capable of enriching uranium for nuclear…

By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent John Thune, the No. 2 Senate Republican, is struggling with a crucial decision: Whether to ask South…

By Jeff Zeleny, Don Lemon and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House offered to connect rapper Nicki Minaj with one of the Biden administration’s…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday defended his administration’s new vaccine mandates and said Republican governors…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A gun-control group that helped turn Virginia blue two years ago plans to spend more than $1.8 million in a bid to shape…

By Melanie Zanona, CNN Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Saturday’s right-wing rally on Capitol Hill, an event that could…