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CNN By Eric Bradner, CNN A growing roster of ambitious Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, joined the legal battle against President Joe Biden’s workplace vaccine mandates. The holiday-season legal battle ahead of the January 4 start date for the vaccinate-or-test requirement for large businesses underscores the partisan and cultural

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, President Biden returned from his foreign trip to a party in crisis after losing the Virginia gubernatorial race — and nearly losing the assumed-to-be-safe New Jersey governor’s race. Meanwhile, Democrats turned the screws on one another in an effort to pass Biden’s social spending bill and the infrastructure bill,

CNN By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The State Department has established a new task force to oversee its “planning, management and logistics related to events in Ethiopia,” a spokesperson confirmed Friday. The creation of the Ethiopia Conflict Task Force suggests the department is growing increasingly concerned about the situation in the country. It comes as the

CNN By Annie Grayer, Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plan to pass one of the two key pillars that comprise President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda appeared back on track late Friday evening as key groups of lawmakers agreed to vote on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, though it was still

By Geneva Sands, CNN President Joe Biden plans to nominate attorney and former Bush administration appointee Kenneth Wainstein to lead the Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence division, according to a department official, a step towards permanent leadership at an office plagued by Trump-era controversies. Wainstein served in federal government for years, including as a former

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 indicating support for QAnon and expressing Islamophobia in old tweets, will oust a powerful Democrat from New Jersey’s state Senate District 3. CNN projected Friday that Durr, who spent

CNN By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Gen. Colin Powell was remembered Friday as a patriotic statesman who served his country in peace and war at a funeral service that was marked not only by its reverence for the former secretary of state but by a bipartisan attendance of former presidents and dignitaries who paid tribute to

CNN By Jeremy Herb, Jake Tapper and Michelle Rozsa, CNN Retiring Rep. Anthony Gonzalez has a warning for his fellow Republicans: former President Donald Trump will try to steal the next election. Gonzalez was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in the wake of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Climate groups and COP26 attendees are expressing frustration that US climate action is limited at the summit, in part because the country’s action ultimately depends on Congress — and, more specifically, that it depends on Sen. Joe Manchin, who opposes climate legislation that would rapidly reduce the use of fossil fuel.

CNN By Edward-Isaac Dovere and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former President Barack Obama went to the international climate conference in Glasgow on Monday because climate envoy John Kerry knew the Biden administration needed help convincing the world America was actually serious about combatting climate change. But as much as Obama is expected to express regret for

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 President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda after months of internal deliberations and painstaking divisions among Democrats. The final vote was 228-206. Thirteen Republicans voted with the majority of Democrats in support of

By Kevin Liptak and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday ratcheted up pressure on Democrats to quickly approve his sweeping domestic spending bills as the two critical components of the Democratic agenda appeared on the brink of passage. Using a strong monthly jobs report to encourage members of his party to further bolster