National Politics

By Morgan Rimmer and Jessica Dean, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Wednesday that Congress would raise the debt ceiling, though she added it would not be done through reconciliation. “We won’t be putting it in reconciliation, no,” Pelosi said during a news conference on Capitol Hill, when asked which options Democrats were pursuing to

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will hold oral arguments in its courtroom beginning next month, returning after more than a year of conference calls due to the Covid pandemic. Justices, lawyers, essential personnel and journalists will be allowed in the courtroom and the live audio

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A new blueprint from the Biden administration shows how solar energy could play a massive role in transitioning the United States’ power sector to clean energy, and achieve the President’s ambitious goals to decarbonize the US economy. The Solar Futures Study from the Department of Energy, released Wednesday, shows that by

By Zachary Cohen, CNN A pro-Chinese government online influence operation is targeting Americans in an effort to exploit divisions over the Covid-19 pandemic and “physically mobilize protestors in the US in response,” according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Mandiant and experts at Google. The operation, which initially attempted to discredit pro-democracy protests in

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden, entering autumn with coronavirus still wreaking havoc on the nation’s health and economy, will push for new vaccine mandates and testing programs as part of a revamped approach to ending the pandemic. The six-pronged plan Biden is set to unveil Thursday afternoon was still being

By Tami Luhby, CNN Food insecurity among families with children rose in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic upended the US economy, according to a US Department of Agriculture report released Wednesday. Some 7.6% of households with children, nearly 3 million families, were unable at times to provide adequate, nutritious food for their kids last year,

By Lauren Fox, CNN Divisions over what should be included in Democrats’ massive reconciliation package are spilling into the open ahead of lawmakers’ return to Capitol Hill, previewing the monumental fight and signaling just how fragile the execution of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda really is. For months, Democrats have largely been able to paper

By Liz Stark, CNN The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed more people away from the profession of driving, signaling a bumpy road ahead for key industries ranging from ride-hailing to delivery services. This issue is especially acute among school districts grappling with a shortage of school bus drivers as the new academic year begins this week

By Tierney Sneed, CNN Abortion clinics and their allies are engaged in a game of Whac-A-Mole as they’ve obtained state court orders blocking individual anti-abortion activists from enforcing Texas’ six-week abortion ban — for now. But the effort has a larger end game: securing a Texas Supreme Court ruling striking down the law. Those abortion

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Virginia on Wednesday took down a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, the last Confederate statue remaining along Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue. A pair of rulings from the state Supreme Court last week cleared the way for its removal after intense national debate over the 12-ton statue’s purpose and

By Dana Bash, CNN Illustration by Alberto Mier, CNN Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — the only person in California history to win a gubernatorial race in a recall election — is aggressively neutral on the one coming up on September 14. No endorsements, the former Republican governor says, because he has relationships with a lot

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday slammed Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s “deep ignorance” on abortion after he defended the state’s new six-week abortion ban earlier in the day. “He speaks from such a place of deep ignorance … and it’s not just ignorance, it’s ignorance that’s hurting people across this country,”

By Daniel Dale, CNN A story went viral last week about Oklahoma hospitals and ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug some Americans are taking to treat Covid-19 even though it is not approved or proven for that purpose. It was a poor piece of journalism — inadequate in its reporting, inaccurate in its depiction of what was