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By Ella Nilsen, CNN Multiple independent analyses have found President Joe Biden simply can’t hit his goal of cutting greenhouse gases by 50% by the end of the decade without the clean energy provisions in Build Back Better, the President’s signature economic and climate legislation. After West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin torpedoed the bill, experts

By Kevin Liptak, Nikki Carvajal, Jeremy Diamond and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden aimed to reassure vaccinated Americans that they can still proceed with their holiday plans without fear of becoming seriously ill, announcing a number of new efforts to combat a surge of Covid-19 cases in the United States. “I know some Americans

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN After months of careful cultivation — and even a nickname — the most important relationship in Washington is narrowly weathering its stormiest moment to date. “The Two Joes” — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin — spoke by phone on Sunday evening after their tenuous alliance blew

CNN By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN After months of careful cultivation — and even a nickname — the most important relationship in Washington is narrowly weathering its stormiest moment to date. “The Two Joes” — President Joe Biden and Sen. Joe Manchin — spoke by phone on Sunday evening after their tenuous alliance

By Katelyn Polantz, CNN A federal judge has ruled against a notable attempt to throw out the felony charge that’s the backbone of January 6 criminal prosecutions, bolstering the government’s case against 17 Oath Keeper defendants accused of conspiring to overtake the US Capitol. “The court is persuaded by none of their contentions,” Judge Amit

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A group of Haitian migrants is suing the Biden administration over its treatment of migrants, recounting in detail squalid conditions at a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas, this year and confrontations with officers on horseback, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. In September, an influx of migrants — primarily Haitian

By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent It’s exactly the scenario Democrats had worked for months to avoid — but now find themselves confronting. Vulnerable members were forced to cast a tough vote in an already daunting election year. And now, they are left with nothing to show for it. With Sen. Joe Manchin effectively wielding

By Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot has asked GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania to voluntarily sit down for an interview — the first known effort by the panel to talk to a lawmaker about helping former President Donald Trump in his efforts to

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security plans to close small gaps in the border wall, make adjustments to prevent flooding and complete prior construction of access roads, the department announced Monday. In one of his first actions in office, President Joe Biden ordered a pause on wall construction and called for a

By Holmes Lybrand A Washington state man was sentenced to 46 months in jail for assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon in a tunnel at the US Capitol on January 6. During the Capitol riot, Devlyn Thompson helped move police shields up a line of rioters in the tunnel, attempted to throw a

By Kate Bennett, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden have added to their pet family, the first lady’s spokesperson told CNN. A new puppy, a pure-bred German Shepherd, was spotted Monday playing on the South Lawn of the White House. Michael LaRosa, Jill Biden’s press secretary, confirmed the news of a new

By Dan Merica, CNN There is a growing sense of gloom among Democrats in the House. And every week or so, when another Democratic member of Congress announces they won’t run for reelection in 2022, the mood inside the caucus worsens. Morale in the House is already markedly low, but as Democrats look ahead to

By Christina Carrega and Sean Lyngaas, CNN A Russian businessman was extradited to the US this weekend from Switzerland to face charges in an insider trading scheme worth tens of millions of dollars for allegedly hacking into US computer networks, the Justice Department announced on Monday. Vladislav Klyushin, owner of M-13, a Russian company that

By Oren Liebermann and Barbara Starr, CNN In an ongoing effort to tackle extremism within military ranks, the Pentagon is putting forward a clearer, sharper definition of extremist behavior, updating the older guidance that was considered too vague on what was and was not allowed. The results of the Countering Extremism Working Group, including a

By Annie Grayer, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi projected confidence Monday, vowing Democrats will not give up on passing the Build Back Better Act, despite Sen. Joe Manchin saying he will not vote for the package in its current form. At a news conference in San Francisco, the Democrat from California said she believes that