Politics

By Maeve Reston, CNN A few days before Karen Bass was sworn in on Sunday as the first female mayor of Los Angeles, term-limited Democratic Mayor Eric…

Sam Fossum and Jack Forrest, CNN President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on Sunday to discuss Russia’s invasion…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The top US hostage affairs official on Sunday reflected on conducting the prisoner swap that led to Brittney Griner’s…

By Oren Liebermann and Barbara Starr, CNN The US killed two ISIS officials in a helicopter raid early Sunday morning in eastern Syria, US Central…

By Tami Luhby, CNN Buoyed by the steep drop in child poverty last year, a group of Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocates are pushing hard to…

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Los Angeles city council member Kevin de León is facing renewed scrutiny after a video surfaced online Friday night of him…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The strong turnout in Georgia’s runoff election that cemented Democrats’ control of the US Senate is sparking…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the CIA. Personal Birth date:…

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, Sean Lyngaas and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Russia refused to release Paul Whelan alongside Brittney Griner unless a…

By Katelyn Polantz, Casey Gannon, Hannah Rabinowitz, Lauren Koenig and Kristen Holmes, CNN A federal judge declined to hold former President Donald…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program remains blocked by federal courts for now. But for some borrowers,…

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as a political independent, she told CNN’s Jake…

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN As a right-wing faction threatens to tank his speakership ambitions, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a…

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans’ views of the state of the nation have bounced back slightly since earlier this year,…

By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is considering…

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen, CNN The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to hold Donald Trump in…

By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden had already personally informed Cherelle Griner that her wife was being released from…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Biden administration awarded $36 billion Thursday to prevent cuts to the pensions of roughly 357,000 union workers and…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Detained American Paul Whelan expressed his frustration that more has not been done to secure his release in an exclusive…

By Clare Foran, CNN The House voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and…

By Ali Zaslav, Ted Barrett and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was reelected by his caucus Thursday to lead Democrats for a…

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Jeremy Herb, MJ Lee and Kevin Liptak, CNN WNBA star Brittney Griner has been released from Russian detention,…

By Tami Luhby, CNN Even though the Internal Revenue Service has been steadily chipping away at its major backlog of tax filings, millions of…

By MJ Lee and Phil Mattingly, CNN With the midterm elections in the rearview mirror, President Joe Biden and top White House officials now face a…

By Daniella Diaz, Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House voted to pass legislation on Thursday to protect same-sex and interracial marriage,…

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Senior Supreme Court Analyst Since the 2020 presidential election, Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and…

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Jack Forrest, CNN Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against a Florida state representative who allegedly…

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Jaylen Smith graduated from high school in May. Less than a year later, the 18-year-old will be tasked with governing Earle,…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The Biden administration’s first-ever offshore wind energy lease sale for federal waters off the West Coast generated more…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration has decided to appeal a federal court decision that blocked the use of a controversial Trump-era…

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN Arguments in the Supreme Court‘s blockbuster election rules case played out for more than three hours…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a report on Wednesday outlining how a series of…

By Kaitlan Collins and Sara Murray, CNN Two documents with classified markings were found in a Florida storage unit during a search by a team hired…

By Annie Grayer, CNN The final report from the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, will include information about Republican…

By Devan Cole, CNN A federal court of appeals in DC spent nearly two hours on Wednesday grappling with whether former President Donald Trump should…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court is taking on the future of federal elections Wednesday, discussing a case that could…

By Gregory Krieg and Eric Bradner, CNN Sen. Raphael Warnock remains undefeated. After being pushed to another runoff in November, the Democrat asked…

By Haley Britzky, CNN It was a crisp December afternoon as three small planes circled above their objective, making 12 total passes overhead as they…

By Brian Fung, CNN House Republicans say they will seek congressional testimony from top Twitter employees who oversaw the company’s handling…

By Haley Britzky, CNN Americans still strongly back the US providing aid for Ukraine’s fight against Russia, but there has been a decline in…

By Zachary Cohen, CNN Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed local officials in Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona for any and all communications…

By Mark Morales, CNN Republican lawmakers in New York state are calling for an investigation into Democratic Attorney General Letitia James days…

By Morgan Rimmer and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized former President Donald Trump’s comments in a post on…

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s bid for the speakership grew more complicated on Tuesday after a…

By Gabby Orr and Kristen Holmes, CNN Donald Trump’s Save America PAC has been footing the legal bills for additional Trump aides and allies…