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By Jeremy Herb, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack at the Capitol held its first hearing on Tuesday with harrowing…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen, CNN A married couple who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 and later downplayed the level of violence…

By Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN President Joe Biden met with Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema on Tuesday at the White House as his administration…

By CNN Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of two Republicans on the new select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, on Tuesday called out members…

By Devan Cole, CNN A star-studded concert featuring a variety of artists spanning the musical and entertainment worlds will take place in New…

By Jamie Gangel and Chandelis Duster, CNN Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his bid for re-election,…

By Brad Lendon, CNN US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that China’s claims and actions in the Indo-Pacific threaten the…

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Justice Department formally declined to assert executive privilege for potential testimony of at least…

By Holmes Lybrand, Tara Subramaniam and Janie Boschma, CNN When the House Select Committee investigating the events of January 6 convenes for the…

By Ryan Nobles and Melanie Zanona, CNN In what could be a preview of what is to come, House Republicans have planned a number of events on Tuesday…

By Katie Bo Williams and Maegan Vazquez, CNN Six months into Joe Biden‘s presidency, the intelligence community still can’t quite escape…

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Former President Donald Trump‘s influence with Texas Republicans faces a stern test on Tuesday as voters in the…

By Clare Foran, Jeremy Herb, Lauren Fox and Annie Grayer, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol kicked off…

By Devan Cole, CNN The mayor of the Florida county that’s home to Disney World and Universal Studios is sounding the alarm on a spike of…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is planning to speed up deportations for some migrant families who cross the US-Mexico border, the…

By Melanie Zanona, Ryan Nobles and Lauren Fox, CNN Republicans looking to undermine an investigation into January 6 are returning to a familiar…

By Jeremy Herb and Phil Mattingly, CNN The Biden administration has informed lawmakers it will need roughly $1 billion in emergency funds as it moves…

By Manu Raju, Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN The White House and Democratic Senate leaders are trying to salvage President Joe Biden’s…

By Nicole Gaouette and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US and China fought a war of words Monday as each side worked to set the narrative after their latest…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Celina Baez Sotomayor, the mother of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, died on Sunday at 94 of…

By Evan Perez and Tierney Sneed, CNN Justice Department lawyers have determined that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private…

By Christina Carrega The Justice Department has stepped into a legal dispute on behalf of two Texas male students who say their school district…

By Zachary Cohen and Marshall Cohen, CNN The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack will hear testimony Tuesday from four police…

By Liz Stark The Biden administration’s human resources agency expects some federal workers will continue teleworking regularly in the future,…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it intends to set more stringent standards on water pollution from coal…

By Tierney Sneed and Sonia Moghe, CNN Tom Barrack, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and chairman of the Trump 2016 Inaugural…

By Kevin Liptak and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden agreed on Monday to formally conclude the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration on Monday released guidance and resources to support people experiencing long-term effects of…

By Lauren Fox, CNN After spending the weekend negotiating, lawmakers have yet to clinch a bipartisan infrastructure deal, a precarious sign for…

By Melanie Zanona and Manu Raju, CNN The relationship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was never very warm. Now…

By Clare Foran and Manu Raju, CNN President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure deal is in a perilous state with Republicans and Democrats…

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The three appointees of former President Donald Trump have together sealed the…

By Ryan Nobles and Melanie Zanona, CNN A growing group of rank-and-file House Republicans wants House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and GOP…

By Morgan Rimmer and Daniella Diaz, CNN GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana posted on Facebook Sunday evening that he, his wife and his son all have…

By Samantha Beech, CNN The US will continue airstrikes in support of Afghan forces fighting the Taliban, a top US general said Sunday. Violence has…

By Kate Bennett, CNN At a very not-normal Olympic Games kick-off, first lady Jill Biden was, outside of the athletes themselves, perhaps the only…

By Eric Bradner, CNN A congressional primary in Ohio is revealing the generational and ideological fissures in the Democratic Party that have been…

By Chandelis Duster, Kaitlan Collins and Lauren Fox, CNN Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey on Sunday warned against treating federal funding as…

By Devan Cole, CNN Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Sunday defended his decision to approve a statewide ban on face mask mandates earlier this year,…

By Daniella Diaz, Melanie Zanona and Aaron Pellish, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Sunday she has appointed GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger to the…

By Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen, CNN When Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president in 2016, a little-known businessperson…

By Jeremy Herb, CNN A National Security Agency review of its intercepts did not find any evidence that Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s…

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Deployed to Iraq in 2003, US Marine Corps field radio operator Joanna Sweatt took cover in tight-spaced bunkers for…

By Sunlen Serfaty and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Department of Justice will not open a civil investigation into the Covid-19 response in state…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration is debating a series of steps to further contain the Covid-19 pandemic, which, after 18 months, is…

By Ryan Nobles and Natasha Bertrand, CNN David Buckley, the newly named staff director for the House Select Committee investigating the January 6…

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN In his first day on the job, Tom Manger — the new chief of the US Capitol Police — said Friday that he would be…

By Marshall Cohen Yet another US Capitol suspect was caught this week, all thanks to his Bumble match. Prosecutors say Andrew Taake of Texas used the…

By Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN The Department of Defense has experienced about 2,000 breakthrough Covid-19 cases among its more than 2…

By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, Senate Republicans blocked a key vote to start debate on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill long sought by President…

By Oren Liebermann, Ellie Kaufman and Jeremy Herb, CNN The Nebraska National Guard has begun canceling training events as other Guard units across…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Florida’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Friday to step in on an emergency basis to…

By Erica Orden, CNN A federal magistrate judge on Friday ordered Tom Barrack, a longtime associate of former President Donald Trump who was indicted…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN US Customs and Border Protection is terminating two border wall contracts in the Laredo sector that cover approximately 31…

By Nicole Gaouette and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy to serve as ambassador to Australia, three people…

By Dan Merica, CNN President Joe Biden made a forceful return to the campaign trail on Friday night in Virginia, stumping for gubernatorial candidate…

By Betsy Klein and Naomi Thomas, CNN The Biden administration purchased an additional 200 million doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine…

By Erica Orden Two Democratic members of Congress are asking the Justice Department’s inspector general to open an investigation into whether…

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Alabama Republican Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday called out “the unvaccinated folks” for the rise in Covid-19…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US State Department on Wednesday evening temporarily suspended an online booking system used for urgent appointments…

By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates Oklahoma pastor Jackson Lahmeyer’s quest to win a seat in the US Senate in his home state recently led him to…

By Katie Bo Williams and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The CIA inspector general is carrying out a review into the agency’s handling of officers…

By Pete Muntean and Chandelis Duster, CNN America’s infrastructure has taken a beating from extreme weather events in recent weeks spurred by…

By Arlette Saenz and Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris is making voting rights her top public focus, elevating a long-shot battle as…

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden’s drug czar pick, Dr. Rahul Gupta, spent nine months last year working as an adviser to a…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US Capitol Police Board announced Thursday the selection of Tom Manger as chief of the United States Capitol Police…

By Tami Luhby, CNN Missouri must expand Medicaid to low-income residents, the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday, finding that a state…

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Biden administration officials acknowledged Thursday the pandemic that appeared to be waning a month ago has…

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN House GOP leaders are strongly signaling that they are unlikely to punish Rep. Liz Cheney for accepting Speaker…

By Daniel Dale On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell did what he has been doing for seven months: he called on Americans to get…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The FBI disclosed that it received more than 4,500 tips on a phone line in 2018 as part of a…

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US military carried out two strikes against the Taliban overnight in support of Afghan forces in the Kandahar province,…

By CNN Mississippi’s attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Roe v. Wade was “egregiously wrong” and urged the…

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN While the Texas Legislature remains embroiled in a battle over election laws, Republican senators have advanced a bill that…