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By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN Americans are no longer protected from evictions or receiving beefed-up unemployment payments, but they are…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act still finds new ways to scramble the Justice Department’s…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Daniella Diaz, CNN A group of economists urged congressional leadership to add a pathway to citizenship for undocumented…

By Melanie Zanona, CNN The House Democrats’ campaign arm is amplifying their warnings that the GOP’s dangerous rhetoric and…

By Kate Bennett, CNN Stephanie Grisham, whose career with the Trump administration included stints as East Wing communications director, White House…

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent In the Senate, all roads lead to Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat and his staff have been…

By Dan Merica, CNN Former President Barack Obama urges Californians to reject the recall effort targeting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a…

By Devan Cole, CNN Donald Trump is planning to endorse a lawyer and former Republican Party official in Wyoming in an effort to primary GOP Rep. Liz…

By Phil Mattingly, CNN As the President Joe Biden enters a make-or-break moment for his legislative agenda, the White House has moved toward a clear…

By Dan Merica, CNN Republican candidate Larry Elder told reporters on Wednesday that he believes “there might very well be shenanigans”…

By Maeve Reston, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been doing everything he can to persuade women to vote “no” on the Republican…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Two prominent election lawyers have joined forces to launch a network that will provide free legal assistance to election…

By Christina Carrega, CNN The FBI has released new video footage of a suspect accused of planting two pipe bombs near the Republican National…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday acknowledged “a fair amount of confusion” around charter flights…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice John Pierce, the defense attorney who represents nearly 20 Capitol riot defendants but…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court granted a request Wednesday from a Texas death row inmate who sought to block his…

By Maeve Reston, CNN California’s homelessness crisis is a top-of-mind issue for many voters who are still weighing whether to return their…

By Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN A US destroyer sailed near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Wednesday, the US Navy’s 7th…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Saudi embassy in Washington, DC, said Wednesday it “welcomes the release of” classified documents related to…

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Pennsylvania man who told the FBI and local news media that he organized buses for 200 people to…

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The Biden administration has told 11 officials appointed to military service academy advisory boards by former…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden held a belated Labor Day celebration at the White House on Wednesday as he made the case for his…

By Melanie Zanona and Whitney Wild, CNN Law enforcement officials are bracing for potential clashes and unrest during an upcoming right-wing rally in…

By Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Democrats are moving “full speed ahead” on the $3.5…

By Kristin Wilson, CNN Democratic Rep. Darren Soto of Florida, who is fully vaccinated, announced on Twitter Wednesday that he tested positive for…

By Morgan Rimmer and Jessica Dean, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Wednesday that Congress would raise the debt ceiling, though she added it…

By Zachary Cohen, CNN A pro-Chinese government online influence operation is targeting Americans in an effort to exploit divisions over the Covid-19…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will hold oral arguments in its courtroom beginning next…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A new blueprint from the Biden administration shows how solar energy could play a massive role in transitioning the United…

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden, entering autumn with coronavirus still wreaking havoc on the nation’s health and…

By Lauren Fox, CNN Divisions over what should be included in Democrats’ massive reconciliation package are spilling into the open ahead of…

By Liz Stark, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed more people away from the profession of driving, signaling a bumpy road ahead for key industries…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Abortion clinics and their allies are engaged in a game of Whac-A-Mole as they’ve obtained state court orders blocking…

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Virginia on Wednesday took down a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the last Confederate statue remaining…

By Dana Bash, CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier, CNN Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — the only person in California history to win a…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday slammed Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s “deep ignorance” on…

By Daniel Dale, CNN A story went viral last week about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug some Americans are taking to treat…

By Rodrigo Pedroso, Michael Warren and Samantha Beech, CNN Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, said he was briefly detained and…

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Five alleged 9/11 plotters, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who has been called the mastermind behind the September 11…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is adjusting guidance for Afghan children who arrived in the US without a parent to allow them to…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Democrats, following the lead of President Joe Biden, are planning to include free community college in a massive spending plan…

By Lauren Fox and Melanie Zanona, CNN House Republicans could face increased pressure to vote against a bipartisan infrastructure package when they…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, said Tuesday that her husband’s assassin “should not have the…

By Maeve Reston, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies have spent the past few weeks ahead of Tuesday’s recall making one direct…

By Betsy Klein, Ella Nilsen, Priscilla Alvarez, Nikki Carvajal and Manu Raju, CNN The Biden administration is asking for billions of dollars for…

By Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday rebuffed a demand from Sen. Joe Manchin to take a “strategic…

By Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The communications director for a senior Democratic senator pushed back on comments from…

By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill that bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, imposes new hurdles…

By Zachary Cohen, CNN Howard University canceled classes Tuesday as it continues to investigate a ransomware attack on the school’s network,…

By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden will travel to California “early next week” to campaign for Democratic Gov.…

By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Tuesday a bill that imposes a raft of new restrictions on voting in one of the…

By Joe Sutton and Rob Frehse, CNN The Human Rights Campaign has terminated its president Alphonso David following an investigation last month over…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN As Democratic lawmakers begin crafting a massive $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package this week, a coalition of prominent…

By Kaitlan Collins and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN President Joe Biden is set to deliver a major address on the next phase of his pandemic response…

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Not since the 1930s and the “Nine Old Men” era have liberal Supreme…

By Maegan Vazquez, Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday pledged his administration’s full support in Hurricane Ida…

By Maeve Reston, CNN With about a week before the California recall election, everyone is looking for clues about the fate of Democratic Gov. Gavin…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Still reeling from a Supreme Court order that effectively blocked most abortions in Texas, providers…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Monday evening that law enforcement needs to take the upcoming right-wing rally in…

By Dan Merica and Kyung Lah, CNN It was approaching a sweltering 100 degrees when California Gov. Gavin Newsom jumped into the back of a flatbed…

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Pretrial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been accused of being the lead plotter behind the September 11…

By Christina Carrega and Tierney Sneed, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged Monday to protect abortion clinics in Texas by enforcing a…

By Alex Marquardt, Chandelis Duster and Brianna Keilar, CNN The United States facilitated the departure of four American citizens from Afghanistan…

By Tami Luhby, CNN April Stokes wants to go back to work. An optician by trade, Stokes was employed at Henry Ford OptimEyes until the coronavirus…

By Daniella Diaz, Jennifer Hansler, Nicky Robertson and Sonnet Swire, CNN Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Nearly 10 days after a deadly suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that left them injured and tore their family apart,…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Congress authorized more than $190 billion to help America’s schools reopen and stay open during the pandemic — and…

By Devan Cole, CNN Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger urged his party to refrain from pushing lies, conspiracies and division on Sunday, saying if its…

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar called for immediate action from Democrats in the wake of the US Supreme Court allowing…

By Jason Hoffman and Devan Cole, CNN White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Sunday that the US will find ways to get any remaining Americans in…

By Jason Hoffman, CNN White House chief of staff Ron Klain would not give a specific date as to when Covid-19 booster shots would be available to the…

By Kate Bennett, CNN As Donald Trump publicly mulls his political future, playing a game of “will he-won’t he” in a potential bid…

By Dan Merica, CNN Matt Cartwright and Brian Fitzpatrick are political anomalies. The two Eastern Pennsylvania congressmen come from different…

By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, CNN As the Biden administration grapples with the challenge of carrying out…