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CNN By Sarah Fortinsky A member of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack told CNN Saturday many of the more than 200 witnesses they have interviewed are former officials from the Trump administration who came forward voluntarily. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said some others have also volunteered testimony, but needed

By Sarah Fortinsky A member of the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack told CNN Saturday many of the more than 200 witnesses they have interviewed are former officials from the Trump administration who came forward voluntarily. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, said some others have also volunteered testimony, but needed a

By Daniel Dale and Tara Subramaniam, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave the longest House floor speech in US history on Thursday night and Friday morning — an 8-hour, 32-minute address that delayed the passage of a $1.9 trillion Democratic bill to expand the social safety net and fight the climate crisis. The House

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The US Senate unanimously approved Charles “Chuck” Sams III this week to be National Park Service’s 19th director, which will end a nearly five-year lapse in leadership at the agency. The Senate confirmed Sams by voice vote on Thursday to lead the agency charged with preserving America’s national parks, monuments and

By Daniella Diaz, CNN Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas announced her retirement Saturday afternoon after serving nearly 30 years in Congress, according to a statement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi said in a statement Saturday that Johnson is “a dedicated and highly effective leader on behalf of Dallas area families and the

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN With less than one year until the 2022 midterm elections, young voters — who turned out in high numbers for President Joe Biden in 2020 — warn that if the Biden administration and congressional Democrats don’t act now on issues important to young progressives, they could risk alienating the demographic. Citing

By Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN A senior Pentagon official warned the US military is “not ready” to handle climate change, a national security issue that touches nearly every aspect of Defense Department planning. “We are not where we should be, and now is beyond the time when we need to get in front

By Tami Luhby, CNN While Senate Democrats negotiate what to include in the party’s sweeping $1.9 trillion budget reconciliation package, the price of almost everything is on the rise — or at least feels like it is. The legislation seeks to upgrade the nation’s social safety net by extending several coronavirus relief programs and by

By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden marked Transgender Day of Remembrance in a statement Saturday, paying tribute to “those we lost in the deadliest year on record for transgender Americans.” In a statement shared with CNN, Biden also remembered “the countless other transgender people — disproportionately Black and brown transgender women and girls —

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Sirius XM radio host Joe Madison, who is engaged in a hunger strike over what he has called a “politically and morally wrong” attack on voting rights, told CNN on Friday that he wants lawmakers to put voting rights “on the front burner” when they return from their Thanksgiving recess. Madison’s

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, President Joe Biden and other Democrats in Washington celebrated two hard-won legislative achievements: Biden signing the infrastructure bill into law and the House passing his social safety net package. Plus, Biden participated in a classic pre-Thanksgiving White House tradition for the first time as president: the turkey pardon.  Monday

By Eva McKend, CNN Ohio’s crowded Republican Senate primary has become a battle over who most can align themselves with former President Donald Trump. The field of more than a dozen candidates includes former Ohio state Treasurer Josh Mandel, former Republican state party Chair Jane Timken, businessman Bernie Moreno, state Sen. Matt Dolan, businessman Mike

CNN, SPECTRUM NEWS COLUMBUS, WLWT, WFMJ By Eva McKend, CNN Ohio’s crowded Republican Senate primary has become a battle over who most can align themselves with former President Donald Trump. The field of more than a dozen candidates includes former Ohio state Treasurer Josh Mandel, former Republican state party Chair Jane Timken, businessman Bernie Moreno,

By Hannah Rabinowitz A federal judge suggested Friday that former President Donald Trump had some responsibility for the January 6 attack on the Capitol and that rioters were pawns provoked into action. Speaking at sentencing hearing for rioter John Lolos, the judge said rallygoers like him were “called to Washington, DC, by an elected official,

By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN Construction has been halted on a secret development inside of a Chinese shipping port near Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates after intense US pressure, at least for now, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN — but multiple officials cautioned that the

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Republicans in Wisconsin are engaging in a multi-pronged attack on the state’s bipartisan election commission — in one of the latest efforts to relitigate the 2020 election in a key presidential battleground state. Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson has publicly urged fellow Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature to take over the

By Maegan Vazquez and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden pardoned two turkeys, named Peanut Butter and Jelly, on Friday during the first traditional turkey pardon ceremony of his presidency. In a joke-filled ceremony on the White House’s Rose Garden, Biden pardoned the two birds, sparing them both from becoming a presidential meal this holiday