The captain of the US Navy football team will be allowed to try to play in the National Football League after the US military reversed course on Tuesday and approved his request to delay his service."Today, I have approved a…
Maryland is paying its jobless residents pandemic unemployment benefits -- including the $300 federal supplement -- for another 10 days after the state lost several court battles to end the programs on Saturday.Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, announced last month…
Sen. Ron Johnson insisted again last week that he is not a climate change denier, but CNN's KFile found video of him from just weeks earlier telling a Republican group that it is "bullsh*t.""I don't know about you guys, but…
J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist and best-selling author who last week entered the Republican primary for Ohio's open Senate seat in 2022, apologized for criticizing former President Donald Trump in now-deleted tweets.In deleted tweets first discovered by CNN's KFile, Vance…
Around 11 p.m. ET on January 6, Rep. Andy Kim was walking around the US Capitol with a trash bag in hand, trying to clean up after insurrectionists ransacked the building just hours earlier, when the New Jersey Democrat came…
President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the United States is projected to reach the mark of 160 million fully vaccinated Americans by the end of this week and that his administration will engage in targeted outreach to get more…
The House Problem Solvers Caucus, a group of Democratic and Republican lawmakers, on Tuesday officially endorsed the deal on an infrastructure framework reached between the White House and a bipartisan group of senators and called for "an expeditious, stand-alone vote…
Amid mounting concern about a fresh wave of pro-Trump violence in August, more than a dozen current and former Capitol Police officers, Capitol security officials, lawmakers and aides tell CNN that not nearly enough has been done to address the…
California Republicans have been struggling in the political wilderness, failing to capture a single statewide office since 2006 in a state where Democrats outnumber them two-to-one. But longtime GOP policy adviser Lanhee Chen is hoping to change that at a…
Rep. Jim Cooper has represented Nashville in the House for nearly 20 years, and a nearby district before that for another dozen, serving in Congress longer than anyone else in Tennessee. In the deep red state, he and his brother…
Paul Whelan, an American detained in Russia, returned to his labor camp last Wednesday after spending nearly three weeks in a medical facility at a different camp, his brother said Monday.During his time at the facility, Paul Whelan was not…
President Joe Biden wants to raise money for his ambitious economic agenda by ramping up enforcement at the Internal Revenue Service -- a way for the federal government to spend more money without raising taxes or adding to the deficit,…
Congress is out of session with lawmakers back home for the holiday recess -- a traditional time for fireworks, parades, and yes, politicking.The fight for control of the evenly divided Senate will be the most dramatic showdown of 2022, and…
As President Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion, his administration still hasn't finalized its policy for pursuing terrorists in the country once US troops have departed.While the US military will retain authority to carry out strikes against the Taliban…
Army Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the top US military official overseeing the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, said that there should be concern about the Taliban advances on the ground there."We should be concerned. The loss of terrain and the…
A pair of governors on Sunday called on the federal government for help and pushed for solutions as their states grapple with recording-breaking temperatures, drought and wildfires that officials have said is being driven by climate change."We need resources and…
Former President Donald Trump appeared to acknowledge the core facts in New York prosecutors' case against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer even as he characterized the charges as a political attack aimed at him.Trump told a crowd…
Legendary investigative journalist Bob Woodward has already covered fear and rage within the Trump White House, and soon, he will release a third book on Donald Trump's final days in office.The title of the book has not yet been announced,…
James Clyburn, a member of House Democratic leadership, said Sunday he was "absolutely" open to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's proposed changes to election law reform that include a voter ID requirement -- as long as it's equitable."We are always…
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn said Sunday he doesn't want to see a former president testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection but that Donald Trump should do so "if it comes to that.""They should go…
