ICE terminates Trump-era office that focused on victims of immigrant crime
By Geneva Sands, CNN Immigration and Customs Enforcement has terminated the Trump-era office that focused on victims of crimes linked to undocumented…
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Erdoğan and Biden hold bilateral meeting following NATO summit
By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a bilateral meeting on Monday following a…
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By Clare Foran, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday that if his party regains the majority in 2022 it’s “highly…
Continue Reading Justice Department can keep the Barr memo on not charging Trump secret for now, judge rules
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Judge Amy Berman Jackson is allowing the Justice Department to keep secret part of a key memo to then-Attorney General…
Continue Reading Supreme Court declines to take up challenge to California electoral vote process
By Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a case challenging California’s electoral process in another instance of the high…
Continue Reading How Democrats are laying the groundwork now for a potential reconciliation bill
By Lauren Fox, CNN As the bipartisan group continues to educate their respective members on their $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal, Democratic…
Continue Reading Trump-appointed head of DOJ’s national security division to leave at end of June
By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent John Demers, the Trump-appointed head of the Justice Department’s national security division, is…
Continue Reading Justice Department to ‘strengthen’ rules regarding seeking congressional records, Garland says
The Justice Department will “strenghten” rules regarding seeking congressional records, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a…
Continue Reading Trump-era sentencing reform law doesn’t apply to low-level crack cocaine offenders, Supreme Court says
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court held Monday that a low-level crack-cocaine offender is ineligible to seek a reduced…
Continue Reading Supreme Court effectively delays challenge to Harvard affirmative action policies for several months
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The Supreme Court on Monday effectively postponed action on a major challenge to…
Continue Reading Senate votes to confirm key Biden judicial nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson
By Clare Foran, Ariane de Vogue and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate voted Monday evening to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe…
Continue Reading Biden preparing intensely for Putin’s tactics with aides and allies
By Kevin Liptak, Phil Mattingly, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Natasha Bertrand, CNN President Joe Biden is using time away from summit meetings…
Continue Reading ‘Very offensive’: Mom of US Marine jailed in Russia reacts to Putin’s comment
The parents of former United States Marine Trevor Reed, who is imprisoned in Russia, are pleading with Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin to…
Continue Reading Education Secretary tells White House reopening schools is ‘challenging for all’
By Elizabeth Stuart, CNN US Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona says there “is much work to be done” to continue the progress being…
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By Paul LeBlanc, CNN As President Joe Biden makes the case for democracy overseas, his agenda back home is facing major obstacles in Washington,…
Continue Reading They say he once protected Biden. Now jailed American’s parents want President to stand up for their son
By Zahra Ullah and Matthew Chance, CNN The parents of a former US Marine imprisoned in Russia are pleading with Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir…
Continue Reading ‘Her instinct is to dig in’: Kamala Harris’ struggles to answer border question seen as part of a pattern
By Jeremy Diamond and Jasmine Wright, CNN Several allies and former aides to Vice President Kamala Harris had “flashbacks” last week as…
Continue Reading G7 calls for new study into origins of Covid and voices concern on China
By Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN World leaders attending the Group of Seven summit on Sunday issued a call for a new study into the origins of…
Continue Reading Concerns over possible leak at nuclear plant in southern China
CNN has learned that the US government is assessing reports of a possible leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after the French company that part…
Continue Reading NATO leaders at summit back Biden’s decision to pull troops out of Afghanistan
By Kevin Liptak and Kate Sullivan, CNN NATO leaders meeting in Brussels on Monday have largely backed President Joe Biden’s decision to…
Continue Reading Exclusive: US assessing reported leak at Chinese nuclear power facility
By Zachary Cohen, CNN The US government has spent the past week assessing a report of a leak at a Chinese nuclear power plant, after a French company…
Continue Reading President Biden and the first lady meet Queen Elizabeth II after his first G7 summit
By Kevin Liptak, CNN When Joe Biden was preparing for his first audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a young senator, his mother…
Continue Reading Pelosi says House leadership ‘did not rebuke’ Omar over comments about US, Israel, Hamas and Taliban
By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said House leadership “did not rebuke” Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar…
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on infrastructure negotiations, subpoenas by the Trump DOJ…
Continue Reading Apple informed former White House counsel Don McGahn and wife that their records were sought by DOJ in 2018
Former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn and his wife received disclosures from Apple last month that their account records were sought by the…
Continue Reading Biden: Putin is right, US-Russia relations are at a low point
President Joe Biden says he agrees with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s assessment that US-Russia relations are at a low point ahead of the two…
Continue Reading 3 takeaways from President Joe Biden’s first G7 summit
When President Joe Biden and his aides were planning his visit to the Cornish coast this weekend, many — including the President — viewed…
Continue Reading ‘Beyond belief’: Pelosi on Trump’s DOJ saying they were unaware of data breach
The Trump-era Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize data of Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee went even beyond the nefarious…
Continue Reading Pelosi says Trump DOJ’s targeting of political enemies ‘goes even beyond Richard Nixon’
The Trump-era Justice Department’s decision to secretly seize data of Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee went even beyond the…
Continue Reading Queen Elizabeth II greets the Bidens at Windsor Castle
Queen Elizabeth II greeted President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at Windsor Castle ahead of their meeting. CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield…
Continue Reading President Biden and the first lady meet Queen Elizabeth II after his first G7 summit
When Joe Biden was preparing for his first audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a young senator, his mother — an Irish American…
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Pelosi says Senate bipartisan infrastructure package may be a tough sell to caucus unless ‘more to come’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday said she’s “very pleased” that a deal on a new bipartisan Senate infrastructure package was…
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In an exclusive interview, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells CNN’s Dana Bash that she’s not giving up on Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s vote for HR1…
Continue Reading Ocasio-Cortez ‘inclined’ to agree that Justice Breyer should retire
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says that she’s ‘inclined’ to agree with colleague Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) that 82-year-old Associate Supreme…
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AOC says she is ‘inclined to say yes’ as to whether Justice Breyer should retire
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is “inclined to say yes” as to whether Justice Stephen Breyer should retire from the Supreme…
Continue Reading Biden says Putin is right about US-Russia relations being at ‘a low point’ ahead of summit
President Joe Biden said Sunday he agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin that relations between the US and Russia are at a “low…
Continue Reading G7 calls for new study into origins of Covid and voices concern on China
World leaders attending the Group of Seven summit on Sunday issued a call for a new study into the origins of Covid-19, including in China, after an…
Continue Reading READ: G7 communiqué calls for new study into origins of Covid and voices concern on China
World leaders attending the Group of Seven summit on Sunday issued a call for a new study into the origins of Covid-19 after an initial report was…
Continue Reading Biden leaves his first G7 summit for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II
When Joe Biden was preparing for his first audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a young senator, his mother — an Irish American…
Continue Reading Fact check: Breaking down Mitch McConnell’s spin on the John Lewis voting rights bill
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was asked Tuesday where he stands on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a Democratic bill that aims…
Continue Reading ‘New York is back!’ The NYC Democratic mayoral primary captivates a reanimated city
When New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the stage at a rally for New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley on Saturday night, the…
Continue Reading ‘Asserting power when they don’t have any’: GOP governors move to ban mask mandates in schools
As a school year filled with challenges from the Covid-19 pandemic comes to a close, the focus is on summer school and planning for the fall, when…
Continue Reading Biden set to cap off first G7 summit with an audience with Queen Elizabeth II
When Joe Biden was preparing for his first audience with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II as a young senator, his mother — an Irish American…
Continue Reading Former Deputy AG Rosenstein has said he was not aware of subpoena for lawmakers’ data, source says
Ex-top Trump Justice Department official Rod Rosenstein has told people in recent days he was not aware of a subpoena that targeted the data of…
Continue Reading YouTube suspends Sen. Ron Johnson’s account for posting video about dubious Covid-19 treatments
YouTube suspended GOP Sen. Ron Johnson’s account on Friday after he posted comments regarding dubious treatments for Covid-19. “We…
Continue Reading ‘I’m a partner on this journey’: Jill Biden on how she sees her role as first lady during debut foreign trip
On her third full day in the United Kingdom to accompany President Joe Biden on his first G7 Summit, Jill Biden peeled off from her husband, and the…
Continue Reading New book suggests Birx wanted Trump to lose presidential election
A new book written by one of President Joe Biden’s top coronavirus advisers suggests Dr. Deborah Birx hoped former President Donald Trump would…
Continue Reading Biden causes sighs of relief among world leaders even as G7 divisions linger
When President Donald Trump used his elbows at international summits, it was to throw them — on trade, on Russia and, once, to help remove the…
Continue Reading Macron says Biden is ‘part of the club’ at the G7 in leaders’ first formal meeting
US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first formal in-person meeting on Saturday. The two leaders discussed a number…
Continue Reading Biden aims to counter China’s global infrastructure project with new G7 initiative
The United States says it will be a lead partner in a new global, climate-friendly infrastructure program with its Group of 7 partners, part of…
Continue Reading How Trump’s tariffs haunt Kentucky’s whiskey distillers: ‘We’re still on death row’
Dozens of cases of whiskey sit on the ground floor of the James E. Pepper Distillery in Lexington, Kentucky, ready to be shipped — but, because…
Continue Reading On this day in 1967: Loving v. Virginia and interracial marriage
Editor’s note: This story was originally published for CNN on April 13, 2017. A century after the end of the Civil War, more than a dozen…
Continue Reading Infrastructure in America needs an upgrade. Here’s how Biden’s plans would impact key areas of American life.
The nation’s infrastructure is sorely in need of repair. It recently earned a C- score from the American Society of Civil Engineers, which said…
Continue Reading Biden and Putin not currently expected to hold joint news conference following meeting next week
President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin are not currently expected to hold a joint press conference following their high-stakes…
Continue Reading Biden’s preaching the benefits of democracy in Europe, but new concerns rise back home
President Joe Biden’s attempts to talk up democracy in Europe this week are facing headwinds from back home, where revelations about the…
Continue Reading Chicago police officer charged in connection to January 6 Capitol riot
A Chicago police officer was arrested at his home Friday morning and is facing five federal misdemeanor charges in connection to the January 6 riot…
Continue Reading FDA authorizes two batches of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses from Baltimore plant
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it was authorizing for use two batches of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines —…
Continue Reading Family of Georgia’s secretary of state was still getting death threats months after election, report says
Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, his wife, Tricia, and their family received threats of violence months after the election…
Continue Reading Justice Department requested data on 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses from Apple
The Department of Justice sent a broad request in February 2018 to Apple as part of its investigation that collected data on members of Congress,…
Continue Reading Barr pushed investigators to finish leak probes
The Justice Department’s leak investigation that targeted lawmakers was more than a year old when Attorney General William Barr took office in…
Continue Reading Meet the internet sleuths tracking down the January 6 insurrectionists
From the mob, a seemingly unidentifiable hand reaches out with a Taser, in an attack that would leave DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone…
Continue Reading Justice Department watchdog to investigate data seizure as House Democrats discuss impacts of leak probe
The Justice Department’s inspector general will investigate the department’s handling of a leak investigation into former President…
Continue Reading Nevada changes from caucus to primary for presidential elections
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed a sweeping law Friday that moves its party presidential selection contest up to the first Tuesday in February in…
Continue Reading Senators introduce bill to improve visa program to protect Afghan interpreters who helped US
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced legislation aimed at improving the Afghan special immigrant visa (SIV) program amid a growing push from…
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This week, Vice President Kamala Harris returned from her first foreign trip as President Biden departed for his first as commander-in-chief.…
Continue Reading Attorney General Garland vows to fight GOP efforts to curb voting access
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Justice Department will aggressively fight efforts to restrict voting rights nationwide following a…
Continue Reading Ransomware legislation under consideration as key senators request input from Biden team
The top two senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee called on the Biden administration on Friday to provide input on…
Continue Reading Face masks no longer mandated on House floor for those fully vaccinated
Facial coverings will no longer be necessary on the US House floor for those fully vaccinated against Covid-19. House members, staff and visitors can…
Continue Reading Pete Buttigieg delivers infrastructure message from a bridge with a cracked steel beam
Truck driver Clifton Hughey heard talk all his life about a potential third highway bridge to cross the Mississippi River near Memphis. But with one…
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Stimulus payment adjustments are still going out to people whose 2020 taxes show they lost income
The Internal Revenue Service reports it has distributed additional stimulus cash to millions of people who lost income during 2020 and qualified for…
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Idaho’s newest federal magistrate judge sworn in to office
Idaho’s newest federal magistrate judge, Raymond Patricco Jr., has been sworn in during a brief ceremony at the federal courthouse in Boise.…
Continue Reading Biden administration will return $2 billion to military projects that had been set aside for border wall construction
The Biden administration is returning more than $2 billion to military projects that had previously been set aside for the construction of former…
Continue Reading Biden joins the world leaders club at G7 with call for wartime effort against Covid-19
The leaders of the world’s advanced economies gathered Friday on the Cornish coast for the first time since the global coronavirus pandemic…
Continue Reading Justice Department watchdog asked to investigate data seizure as House Democrats discuss impacts of leak probe
Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate the department’s handling of a…
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President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad since taking office includes a G7 summit where he’ll look to reestablish US leadership on the…
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Donald Trump‘s plans to play GOP kingmaker are being disrupted by one of his most loyal supporters in Georgia. In early May at Mar-a-Lago,…
Continue Reading FDA preparing to clear roughly 10 million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine doses
The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to clear two batches of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines that were produced at the troubled…
Continue Reading Swalwell says Trump ‘weaponized’ Justice Department against enemies
California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, whose data was seized by the Trump administration as part of a leak probe, on Friday said former President…
Continue Reading ‘Jill from Philly’ meets the Queen
Almost five months into her new job, Jill Biden is still revealing what kind of first lady she wants to be, but one thing is already clear: you can…
Continue Reading The G7 summit: Here’s what you need to know
President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad since taking office includes a G7 summit where he’ll look to reestablish US leadership on the…
Continue Reading Oregon House of Representatives expels lawmaker after video shows him appearing to tell protesters how to breach the state Capitol
The Oregon state representative who faced backlash after a video surfaced of him appearing to tell protesters how to get access to the closed state…
Continue Reading Jill Biden meets and tours school with the Duchess of Cambridge
First lady Jill Biden met Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge on Friday, touring a school in Cornwall, England, near the G7 summit where President…
Continue Reading Here’s what we know about the bipartisan infrastructure deal
A bipartisan group of 10 senators announced Thursday they have reached a deal on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, the most significant…
Continue Reading German Chancellor Angela Merkel to visit White House on July 15
President Joe Biden will welcome German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House next month, the White House says. It will be her first visit to…
Continue Reading Jill Biden will meet with the Duchess of Cambridge in England this week
First lady Jill Biden will meet with Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge this week while she is in England, Kensington Palace told CNN on Thursday,…
Continue Reading Biden is at the G7 meeting of world leaders. Here’s what to know about it
President Joe Biden’s first trip abroad since taking office includes a G7 summit where he’ll look to reestablish US leadership on the…
Continue Reading Jill Biden will meet with Kate Middleton in England this week
First lady Jill Biden will meet with Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, this week while she is in England, Kensington Palace told CNN on…
Continue Reading Trump Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from House Intelligence Committee Democrats, sources say
Prosecutors in the Trump administration Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for data from the accounts of House Intelligence Committee Democrats…
Continue Reading Omar seeks to clarify comments after Jewish House Democrats accuse her of comparing US and Israel with Hamas and Taliban
Rep. Ilhan Omar said Thursday that she was “in no way equating terrorist organizations with democratic countries” after a group of Jewish…
Continue Reading DOJ charges six connected to pro-Trump rallies and right-wing revolutionary group in new Capitol riot conspiracy case
Six men from California who allegedly organized themselves as a “DC Brigade,” including one man who spoke at a right-wing rally in…
Continue Reading No shipments of J&J’s Covid-19 vaccine have gone out from the government in weeks, official tells CNN
No shipments of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine have gone out from the federal government in several weeks, CNN has learned,…
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In their final debate before New Yorkers begin early voting on Saturday, five of the leading candidates in the Democratic mayoral primary on Thursday…
Continue Reading Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announces plan to build border wall and arrest migrants
Texas will begin building its own border wall and next week will start arresting migrants who trespass on private property, Republican Gov. Greg…
Continue Reading FBI Director Chris Wray says he’s ‘not aware of any investigation’ against Trump related to the insurrection
FBI Director Chris Wray said Thursday that he is “not aware of any investigation” against former President Donald Trump in connection…
Continue Reading Sinema faces Arizona blowback over becoming the Senate’s new unmovable roadblock
Alejandra Gomez worked tirelessly to get Democrats, including Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, elected in 2018. But now she feels betrayed. The 39-year-old…
Continue Reading New infrastructure deal faces Democratic resistance as liberals call for an end to bipartisan talks
Liberal Senate Democrats are unloading on a bipartisan group of senators working on an infrastructure deal, warning that the effort to win GOP…
Continue Reading Arizona attorney general, slammed by Trump, announces Senate bid
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich officially announced a Senate campaign on Thursday, eying a general election matchup with incumbent Democratic…
Continue Reading ‘Time to pull the plug’: Democratic criticism grows of bipartisan infrastructure talks
Liberal Senate Democrats are unloading on a bipartisan group of senators working on an infrastructure deal, warning that any pared-back measure to…
Continue Reading Jewish House Democrats condemn Omar for comparing US and Israel with Hamas and Taliban
A group of a dozen Jewish House Democratic members is calling on fellow Rep. Ilhan Omar to “clarify her words,” after accusing her of…
Continue Reading US lifts sanctions on 3 former Iranian officials and two companies
The Biden administration lifted a handful of Iran-related sanctions Thursday in what the State Department described as a “normal…
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