(CNN) Republicans looking to undermine an investigation into January 6 are returning to a familiar playbook for the GOP: invoking Speaker Nancy Pelosi. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy even debuted a new label on Monday, tagging Kinzinger and Cheney as...
New York City and the state of California issued a form of vaccine mandate for city or state workers or else they must submit to masking and testing. The answer to the Covid problem, almost everyone -- from doctors and health experts to Republican governors...
(CNN) The Biden administration has informed lawmakers it will need roughly $1 billion in emergency funds as it moves to quickly evacuate Afghan translators and other personnel who worked with the US military and are trying to leave the country, according to...
(CNN) For the past year or so, Ron DeSantis has been on a roll. The Florida Republican governor's laissez-faire approach to Covid-19 -- and the relatively low number of cases and deaths in such a large and elderly state -- turned him into a celebrity in the...
(CNN) The White House and Democratic Senate leaders are trying to salvage President Joe Biden's pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, but it's not clear whether enough senators will get behind a nominee who has faced intense...
Washington (CNN) The US and China fought a war of words Monday as each side worked to set the narrative after their latest testy senior-level meetings . A US delegation led by the Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and...
(CNN) Celina Baez Sotomayor, the mother of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, died on Sunday at 94 of complications from cancer, according to a family friend. "I have often said that I am all I am because of her, and I am only half the woman she is," So...
(CNN) Justice Department lawyers have determined that federal law doesn't prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring Covid-19 vaccines -- even if the vaccines have only emergency use authorization, according to an opinion posted online M...
(CNN) The Justice Department has stepped into a legal dispute on behalf of two Texas male students who say their school district discriminated against them when they were not allowed to attend classes because they refused to cut the length of their hair tha...
(CNN) The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack will hear testimony Tuesday from four police officers who were on the front lines that day as rioters supporting then-President Donald Trump violently stormed the US Capitol in an attempt t...
(CNN) The Biden administration's human resources agency expects some federal workers will continue teleworking regularly in the future, as government agencies finalize their offices' reentry and post reentry plans. The Office of Personnel Management is enco...
A coal-fired power plant in Utah in 2019. The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it plans to strengthen limits on coal-fired power plant pollution. CNN —The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday it intends to set more stringent stan...
Tom Barrack Jr., founder of Colony Capital Inc., right, arrives at criminal court in New York, on July 26, 2021. CNN —Tom Barrack, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump and chairman of the Trump 2016 Inaugural Committee, pleaded not guilty throug...
(CNN) The Department of Veterans Affairs will require many of its frontline health workers to be vaccinated, the agency announced on Monday, making it the first area of the federal government to require shots among some of its workers. It was a major step f...
Washington CNN —President Joe Biden will agree Monday to formally conclude the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, another step toward winding down the two prolonged military engagements that began in the years following the September 11 terro...
(CNN) The Biden administration on Monday released guidance and resources to support people experiencing long-term effects of Covid-19, known as "long Covid," as the condition shapes up to be a major, long-term public health issue. The announcement comes as...
Pool/Getty Images North America/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON, DC - JULY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters with Vice President Mike Pence in the Oval Office at the White House July 20, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump hosted Republican Congressional...
(CNN) After spending the weekend negotiating, lawmakers have yet to clinch a bipartisan infrastructure deal , a precarious sign for senators who have months trying to cement a massive, bipartisan win for President Joe Biden. The talks are "inching along" an...
(CNN) The White House has decided to maintain existing coronavirus travel restrictions amid surging cases triggered by the Delta variant, a White House official told CNN Monday. "Given where we are today with the Delta variant, the United States will mainta...
(CNN) The relationship between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was never very warm. In a heated phone call last week, Pelosi informed McCarthy that she would reject two of his selections to the special House committee investiga...