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By Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden paid tribute to the victims of the September 11 terror attacks in a short video address…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A judge on Friday ordered a US Capitol riot defendant to remain jailed in part because of a previous incident in which the…

By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The House committee investigating the deadly riot at the US Capitol on January 6 issued a…

By Dan Merica, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom backed President Joe Biden’s newly announced coronavirus vaccine requirements during a news…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A Russian-speaking cybercriminal group responsible for a series of ransomware attacks on major US firms brought some of its…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration appealed on Friday a Texas court ruling that found the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood…

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Flights of Afghan refugees to the US were paused Friday after four cases of measles were discovered among Afghans who had…

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Democrats made their case Friday to include a path to legalization for millions of immigrants in their…

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Pau Mosquera, CNN Former Venezuelan intelligence official Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, also known as “El…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN A newly formed White House council to promote competition across the US economy and lower costs for American families is…

By Erica Orden, CNN Igor Fruman, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, pleaded guilty Friday in New York federal court to a charge stemming from a case…

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Twenty years after 9/11, the changes the attacks brought to American life still reverberate across…

By Ryan Nobles, CNN Hundreds of law enforcement officials were briefed on the potential for violence on January 6 from protesters planning to attempt…

By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden challenged Republicans to test his new vaccine requirements in court Friday as he stressed…

By Daniel Dale, CNN Polls suggest California voters are poised to defeat an effort to recall the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. The…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN Sen. Joe Biden was on the phone with his wife during his morning commute from Delaware to Washington, DC, when the second plane…

By Clare Foran, CNN John Fetterman thinks Senate Democrats are making a big mistake. The party has a rare opportunity with a majority in Congress and…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN In its lawsuit challenging Texas six-week abortion ban, the Justice Department is throwing a Hail Mary pass to get over the…

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN The tentatively positive public outlook that marked the first months of the Biden administration has…

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…

By Melanie Zanona, Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and his leadership team are quietly working to prop up some of…

By Maeve Reston and Dan Merica, CNN The effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom took off last year amid a backlash to his aggressive…

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director The landscape of political polling is changing, and so too is the way CNN carries out its polls. Beginning…

By Kylie Atwood, CNN President Joe Biden spoke with China’s President Xi Jinping on Thursday evening as relations between the two countries…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice Federal prosecutors cited seditious conspiracy as a crime under investigation in a recent search…

By Michael Warren and David Wright, CNN Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday urged Republicans “to face the realities of the 2020…

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Republican former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch announced her bid for governor in 2022 on Thursday, emphasizing her…

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer called the high court’s recent refusal to block a controversial Texas law that…

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has repeatedly spread anti-vaccine misinformation. But just last year, the Wisconsin senator…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice A pastor who felt called by God to pray on the US Capitol grounds on the 20th anniversary of the…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Amy Klobuchar, US senator from Minnesota and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate. Personal…

By Kate Sullivan and Gregory Wallace, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted travelers who harass flight attendants because they don’t…

By Dan Merica, Lucy Kafanov and Kim Berryman, CNN For Republicans in some of California’s reddest pockets, there is both hope and skepticism in…

By Sara Murray, CNN A Republican state senator who’s leading the Pennsylvania audit push offered little clarity on when he might seek subpoenas…

By Paul LeBlanc and Gregory Wallace, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday announced it’s taking new steps to protect the waters of Bristol…

By Lauren Fox and Annie Grayer, CNN Moderate Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida laid into Democrats on Thursday for rushing their efforts to…

By Sean Lyngaas and Richard Roth, CNN Unidentified hackers breached computer systems at the United Nations in April and the multinational body has…

By CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday will impose stringent new vaccine rules on federal workers, large employers and health care staff in a…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Lawmakers in the House released early details of a clean electricity program Thursday, which Democrats say would slash fossil…

By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN A wide range of telecommunications and social media companies are still grappling with how to…

By Zachary Cohen, Kylie Atwood and Oren Liebermann, CNN The White House has approved a plan for the State Department to take the lead in coordinating…

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday to challenge the restrictive Texas abortion law. Read the lawsuit here: The-CNN-Wire™ &…

By Michael Warren and Sara Murray, CNN Sen. Mitch McConnell is locked in a proxy war with former President Donald Trump this fall as both Republicans…

By Kristin Wilson, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is asking the Supreme Court to overturn the House proxy voting protocols that were put in…

By Tara Subramaniam During a press conference Tuesday, Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott defended his state’s controversial new abortion law…

By Kristin Fisher, CNN The Transportation Department’s inspector general says it is reviewing how officials prevent everyday flights and…

By Michael Warren, CNN Former President Donald Trump has endorsed a Republican primary challenger to Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a vocal critic of the…

By Tierney Sneed and Evan Perez, CNN The Biden Justice Department sued the state of Texas on Thursday over its new six-week abortion ban, saying the…

By Tami Luhby, CNN The Affordable Care Act’s upcoming open enrollment period is going to look very different this year. It will be the first…

By Tami Luhby, CNN The Biden administration is lending its weight to congressional Democrats’ controversial push to allow Medicare to negotiate…

By Manu Raju, Jeff Zeleny, John Harwood and Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House withdrew the nomination of David Chipman to lead the Bureau of…

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN US Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday that she had been diagnosed and was successfully treated for breast cancer this…

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden on Thursday imposed stringent new vaccine rules on federal workers, large employers and…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The lynchpin climate policy of congressional Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill would spur massive job…

By Tami Luhby and Katie Lobosco, CNN Americans are no longer protected from evictions or receiving beefed-up unemployment payments, but they are…

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The 2013 Supreme Court ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act still finds new ways to scramble the Justice Department’s…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Daniella Diaz, CNN A group of economists urged congressional leadership to add a pathway to citizenship for undocumented…

By Melanie Zanona, CNN The House Democrats’ campaign arm is amplifying their warnings that the GOP’s dangerous rhetoric and…

By Kate Bennett, CNN Stephanie Grisham, whose career with the Trump administration included stints as East Wing communications director, White House…

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent In the Senate, all roads lead to Joe Manchin. The West Virginia Democrat and his staff have been…

By Dan Merica, CNN Former President Barack Obama urges Californians to reject the recall effort targeting Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in a…

By Devan Cole, CNN Donald Trump is planning to endorse a lawyer and former Republican Party official in Wyoming in an effort to primary GOP Rep. Liz…

By Phil Mattingly, CNN As the President Joe Biden enters a make-or-break moment for his legislative agenda, the White House has moved toward a clear…

By Dan Merica, CNN Republican candidate Larry Elder told reporters on Wednesday that he believes “there might very well be shenanigans”…

By Maeve Reston, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been doing everything he can to persuade women to vote “no” on the Republican…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Two prominent election lawyers have joined forces to launch a network that will provide free legal assistance to election…

By Christina Carrega, CNN The FBI has released new video footage of a suspect accused of planting two pipe bombs near the Republican National…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday acknowledged “a fair amount of confusion” around charter flights…

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN Reporter, Crime and Justice John Pierce, the defense attorney who represents nearly 20 Capitol riot defendants but…

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court granted a request Wednesday from a Texas death row inmate who sought to block his…

By Maeve Reston, CNN California’s homelessness crisis is a top-of-mind issue for many voters who are still weighing whether to return their…

By Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN A US destroyer sailed near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Wednesday, the US Navy’s 7th…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Saudi embassy in Washington, DC, said Wednesday it “welcomes the release of” classified documents related to…

By Katelyn Polantz and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Pennsylvania man who told the FBI and local news media that he organized buses for 200 people to…

By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN The Biden administration has told 11 officials appointed to military service academy advisory boards by former…

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden held a belated Labor Day celebration at the White House on Wednesday as he made the case for his…

By Melanie Zanona and Whitney Wild, CNN Law enforcement officials are bracing for potential clashes and unrest during an upcoming right-wing rally in…

By Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that Democrats are moving “full speed ahead” on the $3.5…

By Kristin Wilson, CNN Democratic Rep. Darren Soto of Florida, who is fully vaccinated, announced on Twitter Wednesday that he tested positive for…

By Morgan Rimmer and Jessica Dean, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Wednesday that Congress would raise the debt ceiling, though she added it…