Politics

President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats are racing to prove a counterintuitive lesson: with congressional majorities, sometimes less can be more. The new President holds a slim House advantage and even slimmer Senate edge — 51-50, and then only if he holds every Democrat and allows Vice President Kamala Harris to break ties. Yet passage

A third female former staffer has come forward with accusations of inappropriate conduct by embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday night. The Democratic governor already stands accused of sexual harassment by two women and unwanted advances against him by a third. A former aide for

Voting rights groups led bus tours, knocked on 1 million doors and gave out food at community events to achieve an unprecedented Black voter turnout in Georgia. The organizations have been credited with helping Democrats win both the White House and control of the US Senate in the last election cycle. Their efforts, however, could

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump sent out cease-and-desist letters Friday to the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee for using his name and likeness on fundraising emails and merchandise, a Trump adviser tells CNN. The three entities are the largest fundraising organizations within the GOP that

Former President Barack Obama on Saturday congratulated President Joe Biden on the successful passage of the Covid-19 relief bill through the Senate, the administration’s top legislative priority as millions of Americans continue to struggle financially amid the coronavirus pandemic. In series of tweets following the Senate’s approval of the bill, Obama said that Biden’s $1.9

The Senate passed President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief plan on Saturday, after an all-night “vote-a-rama” and a 12-hour struggle to get one Democrat to support the party’s plan on a critical issue. The vote was 50 to 49 on a party-line vote. The House will vote Tuesday on the bill to approve changes

President Joe Biden is on the cusp of a major legislative victory. If all goes according to plan and the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is signed into law, Biden will have scored an early triumph in his presidency. The Covid-19 relief bill will provide a wide range of benefits, from direct payments to American

The Biden administration is increasingly sounding the alarm over a series of newly discovered cyber intrusions that Microsoft said this week were linked to China. “This is an active threat,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday. “Everyone running these servers — government, private sector, academia — needs to act now to patch them.”

The honeymoon is over for President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, whose unified front was thrown into doubt during the final stages of negotiations ahead of Saturday’s vote to pass the White House’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill. The party’s fragile internal peace, which Biden and his team have tended to with great care since

The honeymoon is over for President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats, whose unified front has been thrown into doubt during the final stages of negotiations on the White House’s $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief bill. The party’s fragile internal peace, which Biden and his team have tended to with great care since he won the Democratic

Millions of Americans will start running out of pandemic unemployment benefits in just two weeks, putting increased pressure on the House to quickly pass a final version of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. The jobless payments are among the first federal lifelines from December’s $900 billion stimulus package set to expire, with