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By Kara Scannell and Erica Orden, CNN A Mercedes-Benz for his wife, an apartment for his son and school tuition for his grandchildren. Prosecutors…

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN With Congress on recess, all eyes were on President Joe Biden in Washington this week. Biden defended the US troop departure…

By Geneva Sands, CNN Homeland Security official John Cohen will take over leadership of the department’s intelligence branch, an office that is…

By Jeff Zeleny and Rachel Janfaza, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul after he refused to submit his…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN White House officials have begun laying out the contents of President Joe Biden’s sweeping plan to expand the social…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen, CNN The Justice Department released new police body camera footage Friday showing one of the most disturbing…

By Natasha Bertrand The Biden administration scored a key diplomatic victory Friday after Russia agreed to keep a crucial border crossing open in…

By Daniel Dale He keeps saying it. It’s still wrong. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday about his new lawsuits against Facebook,…

By Dan Merica and Michael Warren, CNN Glenn Youngkin is doing everything he can to run as a Republican outsider in Virginia’s gubernatorial…

By Kaitlan Collins and Rachel Janfaza, CNN President Joe Biden is set to announce he’s selecting Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as his…

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden is set to give an anticipated major speech on voting rights Tuesday in Philadelphia, the White House…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Four state attorneys general are examining the fundraising practices of the main online platforms used by the Republican…

By Betsy Klein and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The United States is sending officials to Haiti at the request of that country’s government in…

By Christina Carrega, CNN The Federal Bureau of Prisons has agreed to make five recommended changes to their religious services program after the…

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to take action to disrupt criminal ransomware groups in Russia on a…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN While some major climate provisions have been stripped out of a bipartisan infrastructure deal between the White House and a…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued a new policy that states women known to be pregnant or nursing should not be…

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN More than six months after the deadly Capitol insurrection, the final temporary security structure…

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The Justice Department said this week that former President Donald Trump’s delusional claims that he’ll be…

By Kate Sullivan, Brian Fung, Betsy Klein and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday signed a sweeping executive order to promote competition…

By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden is back on the road, heading to parts of the country disenchanted, disaffected and — perhaps —…

By Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN The US is sending 3 million Moderna Covid-19 vaccines to Indonesia on Friday in what will amount to one of…

By Melanie Zanona, CNN A key adviser to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was involved in a behind-the-scenes effort last month to help…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Department of Education has canceled a total of $1.5 billion in student loan debt for nearly 92,000 students, who were…

By Maegan Vazquez and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN Hunter Biden’s artistic debut is sparking ethics concerns for the White House as some critics raise…

By Tami Luhby and Daniella Diaz, CNN Low-income people should register for the expanded child tax credit with the Internal Revenue Service so they…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN About 9 million people with federal student loans will start getting their bills from a new agency after one of the…

By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The number of guns found at airport checkpoints nationwide this year is fast approaching the number caught…

By Kyung Lah, CNN Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs wants the state attorney general to investigate whether allies of former President Donald…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Joe Beare, CNN A federal judge blasted the DC jail Thursday for failing to get evidence to a Capitol riot defendant who has…

By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN A federal judge on Thursday sentenced celebrity lawyer turned criminal defendant Michael Avenatti to 30 months…

By Dan Merica, CNN A series of Democratic Senate candidates announced substantial fundraising hauls this week, putting each campaign in strong…

By Kate Sullivan and Jeremy Diamond, CNN The White House is doubling down on vaccinations as the main focus of its strategy to fight Covid-19 as the…

By Maegan Vazquez, Betsy Klein and Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden’s team is still assessing whether it’s feasible for her to…

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The Justice Department unveiled a major indictment Thursday against five Floridians accused of attacking at least seven police…

By Oren Liebermann, Jennifer Hansler, Nicole Gaouette and Barbara Starr, CNN With the Taliban advancing across rural parts of Afghanistan, and…

By Dan Merica, CNN Loretta Smith and Wesley Hunt are members of different parties, separated by both distance and policy. And yet, Smith, an Oregon…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Leaders of eight civil rights organizations warned President Joe Biden on Thursday that time is running short to enact new…

By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Republicans are set to mount another push for restrictive new voting laws in their state as lawmakers on Thursday begin a…

By Lauren Fox and Jeremy Herb, CNN As they start the process of standing up a select committee to investigate security failings and circumstances…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden delivered a vehement defense Thursday of his decision to end the war in Afghanistan, insisting no amount of…

By Phil Mattingly, CNN Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo won’t hesitate to make the hard ask. She wants to make that clear. There may be, after…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Rudy Giuliani’s law license has been suspended in Washington, DC, after he temporarily lost his license in New York for…

By Nicole Gaouette and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration hosted the most senior Saudi official to arrive in Washington since the White House…

By Sara Murray and Dianne Gallagher, CNN Audit fever is catching on as a Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that he is pushing…

By Ryan Nobles and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The remaining fencing around the US Capitol that was erected in the wake of the January 6 insurrection…

By Christina Carrega, CNN John Jerome White was 19 years old when a Georgia judge sentenced him to life plus 40 years in prison for breaking into a…

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Hillary Clinton called out the Republican-led crackdown on voting rights and urged Americans to fight for access to the ballot…

By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN Violent crime in the United States shot up last year as the pandemic raged. Major cities across the…

By Marshall Cohen and Devan Cole, CNN The Justice Department has charged a Pennsylvania man who allegedly attacked an Associated Press photographer…

By Annie Grayer and Daniella Diaz, CNN Republican Rep. Jim Hagedorn announced a reoccurrence of his kidney cancer on Wednesday. The Minnesota…

By Ashley Killough and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the negligence of the United States government was mostly responsible…

By Pamela Kirkland and Sara Murray, CNN A federal court judge on Wednesday denied a motion to stop the implementation of parts of Georgia’s new…

By Chandelis Duster and Catherine Valentine, CNN Then-President Donald Trump allegedly praised Adolf Hitler during a discussion with his White House…

By Kristen Holmes and Liz Stark, CNN The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday an additional $50 million in funding to enhance air…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Tuesday compared officials carrying out President Joe Biden’s latest Covid-19 vaccination…

By Daniella Diaz and Ryan Nobles, CNN Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas revealed in a video circulating online that he wants to jam Democrats’…

By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday pushed for generational investments in human infrastructure to expand the…

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Two US service members were injured Wednesday in a rocket attack targeting the al-Asad airbase in Iraq which hosts US,…

By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is finalizing a House GOP roster for a Democratic-led investigation into the deadly…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A group of mayors recently pressed US immigration officials on Covid-19-related travel restrictions that remain in effect…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter mark 75 years of marriage on Wednesday, a union that spans…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The FBI has infiltrated a “Bible study” group in Virginia that after the January 6 riot had…

By Daniel Dale, CNN A 98-year-old World War II veteran, Pete DuPré, played the Star-Spangled Banner on the harmonica before the US women’s…

By Omar Jimenez and Ashley Killough, CNN When Zalmay Niazy was a 9-year-old boy in Afghanistan, he said, he was playing with some friends one day…

By Gregory Wallace, CNN The way airlines handle extra, optional fees — such as the charges to check a bag or reserve a specific seat —…

By Ethan Cohen and Gregory Krieg, CNN Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams will be the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, CNN projects,…

By Eric Bradner, Sara Murray and Ben Krolowitz, CNN Republican candidates in a spate of 2021 races and in the 2022 midterms are increasingly focusing…

By Jessica Campisi, CNN Republican Gov. Jim Justice issued a stark warning to West Virginians on Tuesday as he urged more of his state’s…

By Dan Merica, CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will hold separate events Thursday to focus attention on Democratic efforts…

By Natasha Bertrand, CNN The White House is racing to finalize a government-wide strategy on how to respond to ransomware attacks that will deter…

By Devan Cole and Oren Liebermann, CNN The captain of the US Navy football team will be allowed to try to play in the National Football League after…

By Tami Luhby, CNN Maryland is paying its jobless residents pandemic unemployment benefits — including the $300 federal supplement — for…

By Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski and Drew Myers, CNN Sen. Ron Johnson insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier, but CNN’s…

By Michael Warren, Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist and best-selling author who last week entered the Republican…

By Annie Grayer, CNN Around 11 p.m. ET on January 6, Rep. Andy Kim was walking around the US Capitol with a trash bag in hand, trying to clean up…