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By Nicole Gaouette and Ellie Kaufman, CNN Senate Republicans and Democrats expressed deep frustration with the Biden administration Tuesday, complaining that Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the only official to testify on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as both sides tried to lay blame for the chaotic exit. Blinken, appearing a day after testifying

By Maeve Reston, CNN Earlier this year, when California Gov. Gavin Newsom was searching for the right message to convince disengaged Democrats to vote against the effort to oust him in Tuesday’s recall election, it would have been impossible to imagine a more perfect foil than conservative talk radio host Larry Elder. In this deep

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The man who was caught with a machete and bayonet-style knife near the Democratic Party headquarters was formally charged Tuesday, as more details emerge of his White supremacist ideology. US Capitol Police said they found Donald Craighead with the two weapons in his truck on Monday, and that the vehicle was

By Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Senate Democrats returned to Washington on Monday suggesting they were far away from reaching a deal on a $3.5 trillion economic package, raising fresh questions about whether all 50 members of their caucus can quickly unite behind the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s agenda amid sharp divisions over

By Lauren Fox, CNN Democrats’ ability to reimagine the social safety net and cement their and President Joe Biden’s domestic policy legacy for decades to come is about to be tested like never before. This September, senators return to Capitol Hill with a crushing set of deadlines, a looming debt ceiling crisis, oversight to conduct

By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Americans have grown more supportive of coronavirus vaccine mandates for workers, students, and in everyday public life, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. The shift comes amid renewed worries about the pandemic and a continued partisan divide over the efforts to combat it. The public

By Kate Sullivan, Jasmine Wright and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden surveyed wildfire damage in the Western US on Monday, using nearly every stop on his trip to illustrate how recent extreme weather events underscore the urgency of his economic agenda and its investments in the nation’s infrastructure. The President started his tour in

By Rob Kuznia, Bob Ortega and Casey Tolan, CNN When the election office led by Lisa Deeley first came under attack from then-President Donald Trump last year, it was more than a month before Election Day. Deeley, the chair of Philadelphia’s three-member election commission and a Democrat, watched from home as Trump falsely claimed during

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Rep. Ro Khanna had a suggestion for President Joe Biden on a private conference call earlier this week: Have Sens. Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders sit in the same room and try to cut a deal on the Democratic Party’s massive social safety net expansion. Because once they

By Tami Luhby, CNN The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. The payments, a key part of the unprecedented federal response to the economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus

By Tami Luhby, CNN Some 11.4% of Americans were in poverty last year, as the coronavirus pandemic raged across the nation, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. That compares to 10.5% in 2019, the lowest since records started in 1959. About 37.2 million people fell below the poverty line in 2020, up 3.3 million

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN Democrats in Congress are pushing ahead with a sweeping multi-trillion-dollar 10-year spending plan that marks the latest step in their drive to expand education, health care and childcare support, tackle the climate crisis and make further investments in infrastructure. Thirteen House committees are crafting the legislation that will

By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Most Republicans want former President Donald Trump to remain their party’s leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But differing views about Trump’s role in the party — and his strength as a future presidential nominee — highlight divides within the GOP. Republicans and Republican-leaning

By Gregory Lemos and Devan Cole, CNN Arkansas’ Republican governor said Sunday that he thinks President Joe Biden’s newly announced Covid-19 vaccine mandate “hardens the resistance” some people have to getting one. “We have to overcome resistance,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson told NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “This is a very serious, deadly virus and we’re all

By Clare Foran and Manu Raju, CNN House and Senate Democratic leaders are scrambling to unite their party behind a massive economic package to implement much of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, but substantial disagreements remain and could threaten to derail the effort. Top Democrats have set a Wednesday deadline to finalize a deal and

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday released the first of what is expected to be several documents related to its investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and suspected Saudi government support for the hijackers, following an executive order by President Joe Biden. The newly declassified document, which is

By Nicole Gaouette, Jake Tapper and Jessica Small, CNN US commanders who led the war in Afghanistan are wrestling with the country’s collapse to the Taliban, with some ruing the “pretty horrible mistakes” the US military made along the way and one of them flatly declaring America’s longest war was not worth the price. “The

By Nicole Gaouette, Jake Tapper and Jessica Small, CNN US commanders who led the war in Afghanistan are wrestling with the country’s collapse to the Taliban, with some ruing the “pretty horrible mistakes” the US military made along the way and one of them flatly declaring America’s longest war was not worth the price. “The

By Ariel Edwards-Levy and Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Most Republicans want former President Donald Trump to remain their party’s leader, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. But differing views about Trump’s role in the party — and his strength as a future presidential nominee — highlight divides within the GOP. Republicans and Republican-leaning

Thank you very much. Laura and I are honored to be with you. Madam Vice President, Vice President Cheney. Governor Wolf, Secretary Haaland, and distinguished guests: Twenty years ago, we all found — in different ways, in different places, but all at the same moment — that our lives would be changed forever. The world

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Former President George W. Bush called on Americans Saturday to confront domestic violent extremists, comparing them to violent extremists abroad and warning that they are “children of the same foul spirit.” In a speech marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Bush said the US has seen “growing evidence that

By Daniel Dale, CNN False claims went viral on Friday about Air Force pilots and the Pentagon’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate for members of the military. In a video monologue that has been viewed more than 1.1 million times on Twitter, a bodybuilder named Justin Y. O’Donnell claimed that “my dad just let me know” that

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday released the first of what is expected to be several documents related to its investigation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and suspected Saudi government support for the hijackers, following an executive order by President Joe Biden. The newly declassified document, which is

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN In the middle of chaos 20 years ago, Sen. Joe Biden wanted to get inside the US Capitol. That was the safest place to be on September 11, he argued when his daughter Ashley called him, pleading that he leave Washington as the terror attacks were unfolding. Blocked