National Politics

By Maegan Vazquez and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN Hunter Biden’s artistic debut is sparking ethics concerns for the White House as some critics raise eyebrows over the high-priced pieces and whether they pose a conflict of interest. Sources told CNN the White House was involved in forming an agreement between a SoHo New York Gallery owner,

By Tami Luhby and Daniella Diaz, CNN Low-income people should register for the expanded child tax credit with the Internal Revenue Service so they can receive up to $300 in monthly payments, which start July 15, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday. “It does great things for families who have had to struggle with

By Katie Lobosco, CNN About 9 million people with federal student loans will start getting their bills from a new agency after one of the government’s biggest servicers said Thursday that it will end its contract with the Department of Education in December. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), which is better known as

By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The number of guns found at airport checkpoints nationwide this year is fast approaching the number caught in all of 2020, officials say, and the uptick is slowing down screening lines as masses of passengers return to air travel. In the first six months of this year, Transportation

By Kyung Lah, CNN Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs wants the state attorney general to investigate whether allies of former President Donald Trump violated state laws by conducting a pressure campaign against county officials in the wake of the November 2020 election. In a Wednesday letter to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, she wrote

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Joe Beare, CNN A federal judge blasted the DC jail Thursday for failing to get evidence to a Capitol riot defendant who has been in jail since January. “I can’t allow someone to sit in prison for this long without access to material,” Judge Randolph Moss said at a hearing, calling

By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN A federal judge on Thursday sentenced celebrity lawyer turned criminal defendant Michael Avenatti to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike. Avenatti, who rose to fame as Stormy Daniels‘ lawyer, was convicted in February 2020 of three counts for threatening to publicly

By Dan Merica, CNN A series of Democratic Senate candidates announced substantial fundraising hauls this week, putting each campaign in strong financial positions ahead of races that will be critical to the Biden administration’s goals. Sen. Raphael Warnock will report raising $7 million in the second quarter of 2021, his campaign told CNN on Friday,

By Kate Sullivan and Jeremy Diamond, CNN The White House is doubling down on vaccinations as the main focus of its strategy to fight Covid-19 as the Delta variant and undervaccinated clusters of Americans threaten the nation. “We’re going to stay at it and continue to make progress,” White House Covid-19 response coordinator Jeff Zients

By Maegan Vazquez, Betsy Klein and Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden’s team is still assessing whether it’s feasible for her to attend the Olympics in Tokyo after Japan’s Olympics Committee announced all spectators will be banned from the venues of the Games in the host city and the nation declared a state of

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The Justice Department unveiled a major indictment Thursday against five Floridians accused of attacking at least seven police officers during the US Capitol insurrection. Prosecutors say the defendants, all from the Tampa Bay area, repeatedly attacked members of Washington, DC’s police force. They allegedly used stolen riot shields and flagpoles to

By Dan Merica, CNN Loretta Smith and Wesley Hunt are members of different parties, separated by both distance and policy. And yet, Smith, an Oregon Democrat, and Hunt, a Texas Republican, find themselves in similar positions headed into the 2022 midterms: Both have announced plans to run for Congress, but neither know what the district

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Leaders of eight civil rights organizations warned President Joe Biden on Thursday that time is running short to enact new voting rules protecting Americans’ right to cast ballots. The dire message, delivered during a candid session in the White House Roosevelt Room, came as Democrats clamor for the President to do

By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Republicans are set to mount another push for restrictive new voting laws in their state as lawmakers on Thursday begin a 30-day special legislative session that Gov. Greg Abbott says he wants to see focused in part on “election integrity.” Abbott released an 11-item agenda for the special session that