National Politics

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN President Biden wrapped up his first trip abroad with a long-awaited meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. In Washington, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Affordable Care Act, meaning Obamacare remains the law of the land.  Monday Biden’s agenda hits roadblocks in Congress as he preaches democracy overseas Justice Department to

By Daniella Diaz, CNN On Capitol Hill at the height of the pandemic, Rep. Jim McGovern could always be spotted wearing a black mask with the words “end hunger now!” in thick, white block letters. That phrase means more to him than just words on a mask. It’s part of his lifelong fight to end

By Tom Foreman, CNN The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Friday proceeded with a plan that would deny communion to public figures who support abortion rights, setting up a potential public rebuke of President Joe Biden. By a vote of 168 to 55, with six abstentions, the bishops went forward with plans for

By Alex Rogers, CNN Former President Donald Trump endorsed Alaska GOP Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka on Friday, pledging to campaign against Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict him of inciting the deadly insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. “Lisa Murkowski is bad for Alaska,” Trump said in a statement. “Murkowski has got

Members of the crowd heckled former Vice President Mike Pence while he was speaking at a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Kissimmee, Florida.

By Gabby Orr, CNN Former vice president Mike Pence on Friday was heckled at a conference for religious conservatives, ahead of a speech that took aim at his successor. Shouts of “traitor” and “freedom” were heard coming from a small group within the audience as Pence took the stage. Wearing red “Make America Great Again”

By Kate Sullivan and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday marked the United States administering 300 million Covid-19 shots in 150 days, urging unvaccinated Americans to roll up their sleeves to protect themselves against emerging variants of the virus. In a speech at the White House on Friday, Biden called 300 million shots

College artists are being recognized internationally for stunning work created out of Covid masks

By Katelyn Polantz and Marshall Cohen, CNN Newly released footage from January 6 shows a supporter of former President Donald Trump taunting, stalking and punching law enforcement outside the US Capitol — the latest release of up-close video of rioters who have been charged with assaulting police. In the new video, Scott Fairlamb, a gym

By Christina Carrega and Joe Beare, CNN William R. Underwood was a 17-year-old father living in New York City when former President Richard Nixon declared a “war on drugs.” He admits he chose to sell drugs to earn a living — a move that at 34, landed him in federal prison to serve a life

By Scott Glover, CNN On a sunny morning in February, as a bagpipe rendition of “Amazing Grace” filled the salt air, Ashli Babbitt’s family and friends scattered her ashes into the Pacific Ocean off San Diego. The ceremony, aboard a chartered boat, was supposed to be a final goodbye for the 35-year-old Air Force veteran

Six months after Ashli Babbitt was killed in the Capitol riot, her memory is as polarizing and politicized as the day itself. Her brother, Roger Witthoeft, says he and his 35-year-old sister were very close.

CNN’s Kyung Lah looks into Cyber Ninjas, the company running Arizona Senate’s controversial election “audit.”

By Bob Ortega, Kyung Lah, Stephanie Becker and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN In recent weeks, GOP lawmakers from at least 16 states have flocked to Phoenix for a first-hand look at a controversial, partisan “audit” of the 2020 vote in Arizona’s largest county. The visits look to be a harbinger for similar exercises yet-to-come in those

By Paul LeBlanc and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Most federal government employees across the country will have Friday off after President Joe Biden signed legislation establishing Juneteenth as a US federal holiday. But the introduction of a new federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States has created a patchwork of responses

The Justice Department has released new police body camera footage from the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. The footage was used in the case against Thomas Webster, a former Marine and retired police officer from the New York City Police Department accused of participating in the Capitol attack. Webster has been charged with seven federal crimes and has pleaded not guilty to all charges. CNN’s Marshall Cohen has more.

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The US military’s Special Operations Command reinstated its head of diversity following an investigation that concluded there were no violations of laws or Defense Department regulations in controversial social media posts, including one comparing former President Donald Trump to Hitler. Richard Torres-Estrada was reassigned to a new job shortly after he

By Nicole Gaouette and Zahra Ullah, CNN Russian President Vladimir Putin praised US President Joe Biden Thursday, describing him as a “professional” who is “completely knowledgeable on all issues,” according to a Kremlin transcript of Putin’s televised remarks. “Mr. Biden is a professional, and you need to be very careful when working with him so

By Tami Luhby, CNN Another lawsuit challenging the Affordable Care Act is brewing in Texas. The effort to tear down a section of the landmark health reform law shows that although the Supreme Court preserved the act for the third time on Thursday, it remains at risk. The case centers only on the no-cost preventive

By Clare Foran and Jessica Dean, CNN Legislation moved quickly through Congress this week to establish June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day, a US federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The bill overwhelmingly passed the House on Wednesday after the Senate unanimously passed the legislation on Tuesday. But at