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By Manu Raju, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene broke sharply with her party leaders on Wednesday as they tried to project a united front in the deepening standoff with Democrats over health care and the government shutdown, calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to bring the House back into session and

CNN By Annie Grayer, Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — Arizona’s Democratic senators got into a hallway confrontation with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as the government shutdown’s eighth day dragged on. The clash between Johnson and Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego centered on the speaker’s decision not to swear in Democrats’ newest

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — Plenty of Americans have a gripe with the US Postal Service. Lebene Konan managed Wednesday to get hers in front of the Supreme Court. The Texas real estate agent and landlord claims that the USPS has for years intentionally declined to deliver her mail. She asked the nation’s highest

By Annie Grayer, Ellis Kim, CNN (CNN) — Arizona’s Democratic senators got into a hallway confrontation with Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday as the government shutdown’s eighth day dragged on. The clash between Johnson and Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego centered on the speaker’s decision not to swear in Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday if elected mayor he would cancel the closure of Rikers Island – New York City’s infamous jail complex – in favor of a plan to demolish and rebuild on the existing site. Cuomo, who is running as an independent, made the

CNN, POOL, TRUTH SOCIAL, FOX NEWS By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz, Betul Tuncer, Emily Condon, Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges at his arraignment Wednesday, where his lawyers said they plan to file several motions they hope will kill the

By David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Katie Porter became a national figure among Democrats for her sharp questioning of Trump administration figures, often holding a whiteboard, in House Oversight Committee hearings. The confrontations she sparked often went viral when she posted them online. That made her recent demand that a local CBS reporter have a

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — A majority of the Supreme Court on Wednesday indicated it will back a Republican congressman from Illinois who is challenging a state law that allows mail ballots to be received after Election Day, a decision that would let him proceed with a potentially explosive lawsuit that lower courts had

By Marshall Cohen, Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James Comey wasn’t always atop President Donald Trump’s enemies list. “You’ve had one heck of a year,” Trump, then the president-elect, said to Comey in January 2017, the first time they met face-to-face privately at Trump Tower in New York. Trump told Comey he

By Gloria Pazmino, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Cuomo is trying to prove to New York City Democrats that he’d represent them better than Zohran Mamdani. And he’s trying to prove to New York City Republicans that he’d represent them better than Curtis Sliwa, the GOP nominee. He’s going on Fox Business in the morning and

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — For the second time this year in a major controversy over treatment for LGBTQ youths, Supreme Court justices revealed their reluctance to accept a medical consensus. Conservatives on Tuesday challenged the view – at the core of two dozen state laws – that it is dangerous

By Zachary Cohen, Haley Britzky, CNN (CNN) — Canceled school events, growing lines at military food pantries, accumulating fears tied to missed paychecks and the potential need for loans to stay afloat — US military families are already feeling the impacts of the government shutdown that is stretching into its second week and are preparing

By Priscilla Alvarez, Michael Williams, CNN Chicago (CNN) — The heavily armed agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement push in Chicago are often masked. The man leading them is not. Nearly three decades into his career with the US Border Patrol, Gregory Bovino has become the on-the-ground face of Trump’s effort to

CNN, POOL, SEE PREFONTS By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz, Betul Tuncer, Emily Condon, Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges at his arraignment Wednesday, where his lawyers said they plan to file several motions they hope will kill the case before

By Holmes Lybrand, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devan Cole, Katelyn Polantz, Betul Tuncer, Emily Condon, Dalia Abdelwahab, CNN (CNN) — Former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty to two criminal charges at his arraignment Wednesday, where his lawyers said they plan to file several motions they hope will kill the case before it makes it to

CNN By Kaanita Iyer, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump called for Sen. Richard Blumenthal to be investigated in a Truth Social post late Tuesday night, hours after the Democratic senator sparred with Attorney General Pam Bondi during a contentious Senate hearing. Referencing decade-old allegations that Blumenthal “lied” about his military service in Vietnam, Trump