Politics

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The US Justice Department on Wednesday filed what it is describing as a first-of-its-kind settlement in a racial discrimination…

By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Daniella Diaz, CNN The House voted Wednesday evening to pass a stopgap bill to avert a government shutdown at the…

By Devan Cole, CNN A nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in Texas sued the department Tuesday over its decision to offer…

By Katelyn Polantz and Annie Grayer, CNN The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot is dropping several of its pursuits for January…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A bill that allows federal judges — who have increasingly become targets of threats, violence and even assassination…

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director There’s little appetite for a 2020 rematch in the coming presidential election, according to a new…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Phil Mattingly, CNN As administration officials considered a border proposal reminiscent of the Trump era this month, Senate…

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN A Manhattan criminal court judge held entities of the Trump Organization in criminal contempt for not…

By Zachary Cohen and Jason Morris, CNN Local officials in Nevada, New Mexico and Georgia have received federal subpoenas for records related to the…

By Shania Shelton, CNN A recount reconfirmed that GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert defeated Democrat Adam Frisch in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Department of Justice is advising a federal judge in Mississippi that he does not need to hire a…

By MJ Lee, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden signed into law Tuesday landmark new federal protections for same-sex and…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The US Supreme Court announced Monday that it will resume announcing its opinions in person from the…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request from tobacco company R.J. Reynolds to challenge a…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Prosecutors on Monday presented opening arguments in a second trial against members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday on whether the Justice Department can use a felony obstruction charge typically…

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US Air Force carried out the first successful test of its complete air launched hypersonic missile, the Air Force said in…

By Jason Morris and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Special counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as part of the Justice…

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN After a years-long fight, House Democrats finally have access to six years of former President Donald…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Biden administration officials met virtually on Monday with Elizabeth Whelan, whose brother Paul Whelan remains detained in…

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans divide almost evenly over whether they have more confidence in the newly empowered…

By Ella Nilsen and René Marsh, CNN For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National…

By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and MJ Lee, CNN The House and Senate are expected to pass a short-term extension to avert a government shutdown at the…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office will announce Monday that it is issuing a $2.5 billion loan to help…

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…