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By Tami Luhby and Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN President Joe Biden and House Republicans may have as little as a month to prevent the US from defaulting on its debt, which would impact millions of Americans and unleash economic and fiscal chaos here and around the world. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Monday that the government

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Pentagon is set to implement a law that requires them to provide mental health services for troops after a delay of more than a year, according to a defense official with knowledge of the matter. The law is named the Brandon Act after Brandon Caserta, a 21-year-old sailor who took

By Celina Tebor and Shawna Mizelle, CNN New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed two bills into law aimed at increasing access to medication abortion and over-the-counter contraceptives for New Yorkers. The bills, which passed the New York state legislature earlier this year, “will make the difference between an unwanted pregnancy and a future

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Some Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that they want to see more transparency around the Supreme Court, though they railed against the Democratic push for Congress to impose a code of conduct on the justices who exempt themselves from many of the ethics rules that lower courts follow. The debate — coming

By Annie Grayer, CNN House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has announced that House Democrats have taken a key procedural step that could be used to bypass House Republican leadership and enable Democrats to attempt to force a vote to raise the debt ceiling, according to a new letter obtained by CNN. The move is the

By Lauren del Valle, CNN A friend of E. Jean Carroll testified Tuesday that the former magazine columnist called her within minutes after being allegedly raped by Donald Trump in a New York department store in 1996, as the rape and defamation trial against the former president continues. Lisa Birnbach recounted how Carroll called her

By Natasha Bertrand, Priscilla Alvarez and Haley Britzky, CNN The Biden administration is making plans to send an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border in anticipation of an influx of migrants when the Title 42 public health authority expires next week, sources familiar with the planning told CNN. The US military has long

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns said Tuesday the United States is “ready to talk” to China, and expressed hope that Beijing would “meet us halfway on this.” Burns, however, did not give a clear answer about when Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trip to China — which was postponed in

Haley Talbot, CNN Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is calling on Sen. Dianne Feinstein to resign, the latest sign of pressure the California Democrat faces from her own party to step down amid her extended absence from the Senate. The 89-year-old Feinstein “should retire. I think criticisms of that stance as ‘anti-feminist’ are

By Fredreka Schouten and Shania Shelton, CNN Republican-controlled legislatures around the country have moved to erect new barriers to voting for high school and college students in what state lawmakers describe as an effort to clamp down on potential voter fraud. Critics call it a blatant attempt to suppress the youth vote as young people

By Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Tierney Sneed, CNN In a carefully worded, but blunt statement, conservative former federal judge J. Michael Luttig sent a warning shot to the Supreme Court, calling on the Court to enact a code of conduct that would “subject itself to the highest professional and ethical standards that would render

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN When the slim House Republican majority came into power this year, White House officials said they saw opportunities to work with Biden district Republicans — GOP lawmakers whose districts President Joe Biden carried in 2020. But nearly four months into the new Congress — and with the debt ceiling showdown now

CNN, POOL, TREASURY DEPARTMENT By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has accepted an invitation to meet with President Joe Biden on May 9 about the debt ceiling, according to a source familiar, setting the stage for a high-stakes moment in the debt ceiling standoff. Biden invited all four Congressional leaders to the meeting.

By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has accepted an invitation to meet with President Joe Biden on May 9 about the debt ceiling, according to a source familiar, setting the stage for a high-stakes moment in the debt ceiling standoff. Biden invited all four Congressional leaders to the meeting. Biden’s calls came after

By Jack Forrest and Joe Sutton, CNN Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law Monday banning gender-affirming care for minors with the possibility of a felony charge for health care professionals who provide it. Senate Bill 613 bars health care professionals from providing gender-affirming care to those under the age of 18 in

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US Marshals Service is still recovering from a February ransomware attack on a computer system holding sensitive law enforcement data and will soon bring a new version of the system online with better security, an agency spokesperson told CNN on Monday. “Most critical tools” related to the affected computer network

By Kit Maher, CNN Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday signed three “anti-crime” bills into law, one of which would make child rapists eligible for the death penalty with the minimum sentence of life in prison without parole. “We think that in the worst of the worst cases, the only appropriate punishment is the ultimate