Politics

By Geneva Sands, CNN President Joe Biden plans to nominate attorney and former Bush administration appointee Kenneth Wainstein to lead the Department…

By Gregory Krieg, Mirna Alsharif and Paul P. Murphy, CNN Ed Durr, a Republican who has never held elective office and is coming under fire for…

By Tara Subramaniam and Daniel Dale, CNN Democrat Terry McAuliffe’s hopes of returning as governor of Virginia were dashed Tuesday when Glenn…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Climate groups and COP26 attendees are expressing frustration that US climate action is limited at the summit, in part because…

By Annie Grayer, Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN Congress has passed a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, delivering on a major pillar of…

By Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday ratcheted up pressure on Democrats to quickly approve his sweeping domestic…

By Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on Friday stonewalled the House select committee…

By Betsy Klein, CNN First lady Jill Biden plans to embark on a “nationwide effort” to encourage Covid-19 vaccinations for children 5 to…

By Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN In the wake of jarring election results in several states on Tuesday, the one thing Democrats appeared to agree…

By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates Brandon Steele, a second-term Republican in West Virginia’s House, worked hard this year to get his colleagues…

By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden was asked by a Fox News reporter on Wednesday about a Wall Street Journal article last week that had reported…

By Devan Cole and Tierney Sneed, CNN Allies of former President Donald Trump testified under oath that they had done little to verify debunked claims…

By Devan Cole, CNN LGBTQ advocates filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking to overturn Tennessee’s anti-trans sports ban, which they say…

By Kelly Mena, CNN North Carolina’s GOP-controlled state legislature on Thursday approved the state’s new congressional maps, which have…

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN A White House official tested positive for Covid-19 during President Joe Biden’s foreign trip and is now quarantining…

By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has embraced…

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The State Department notified Congress of a new $650 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia today, according to a State Department…

By Christopher Hickey and Nicki Camberg, CNN Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin notably improved the GOP’s standing with younger voters,…

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent The Justice Department is suing Texas over new voting restrictions that the federal government says will…

The Justice Department is suing Texas over its voting overhaul bill, SB1. Read the lawsuit here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News…

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of senior…

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN Regina LaBelle, the former acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, is leaving her job at…

By Annie Grayer and Ryan Nobles, CNN Rep. Bennie Thompson, who chairs the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US…

By Priscilla Alvarez and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden is OK with the Justice Department settling with families separated at the US-Mexico…

By Daniella Diaz and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Democrats are still trying to include protections for undocumented immigrants in the massive economic…

By Sonia Moghe, CNN Alvin Bragg, a former New York state and federal prosecutor, has been elected Manhattan’s first Black district attorney in…

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Texas real estate agent who previously claimed she was “definitely not going to jail” for…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Federal workers will be granted paid time off to take their children to get vaccinated, the government announced Wednesday.…

By Zachary Cohen, Evan Perez and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst who was a source for the 2016 dossier of allegations about…

By Clare Foran and Daniella Diaz, CNN The House will vote on both President Joe Biden’s sweeping social safety net plan and the bipartisan…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Justice Department told attorneys representing families separated at the US southern border under the Trump…

By Gregory Krieg and MJ Lee, CNN New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has become the first Democratic governor in more than four decades to win reelection in…

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Attorneys are still trying to reach the parents of 270 migrant children who were separated at the US-Mexico border under…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN After a year of contentious debates over mask mandates, social distancing rules and curriculums regarding race, new candidates…

By Jason Hoffman, CNN President Joe Biden said Wednesday that families separated at the border under the Trump administration’s so-called…

By Marshall Cohen A New Jersey gym owner deserves more than 3.5 years in prison for punching a police officer while storming the US Capitol, the…

By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN US Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley will lead US participation in the next round of Iran nuclear talks,…

By Ellie Kaufman and Oren Liebermann, CNN A US Air Force investigation into a US drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians at the end of August…

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden called the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s authorization of the Covid-19 vaccine for…