Politics

By Chandelis Duster and Janie Boschma, CNN Photos by Nitashia Johnson for CNN Texas cattle rancher Deydra Steans quit her teaching job three years ago to help save her family’s farming operations. She was prepared for the strenuous task of herding animals. Steans, 41, usually begins her day at 7 a.m. with her 68-year-old father,

By Daniella Diaz, CNN Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin is introducing legislation on Wednesday that would require the safe storage of firearms in the wake of the Oxford school shooting in her district that left four students dead last month. Slotkin’s legislation, called the “Safe Guns, Safe Kids Act,” would require gun owners to secure

By Maeve Reston, CNN As the 14 commissioners of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission drew the state’s new congressional districts over the past week, they pored over maps on Zoom sessions that often stretched late into the night, scooping up census tracts as building blocks to create districts of roughly equal size with a keen

By Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced his latest wave of nine judicial nominees, capping a year where the selections — and an effort to establish an imprint on the federal courts — served as a focal point for his administration. Biden announced his intent to nominate nine district court nominees, bringing

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Frustrated JFK researchers say there is little new to learn in Wednesday’s release of previously classified documents collected as part of the government review into the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The vast majority of the almost 1,500 documents released by the National Archives as new appear to

By Maegan Vazquez, Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein and Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden traveled to Kentucky on Wednesday in the wake of deadly tornadoes and severe storms that devastated the area, announcing that the federal government would cover 100% of costs of emergency work for the first 30 days after the extreme weather event.

By Kara Scannell and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A key accountant to Donald Trump appeared before a Manhattan grand jury investigating the former President’s business practices earlier this year, two people familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN on Tuesday. The Washington Post reported earlier Tuesday that the accountant, Donald Bender from the accounting firm Mazers

By Ryan Nobles, Kristin Wilson and Paul LeBlanc, CNN In a rare moment of bipartisanship, the House and Senate have passed by unanimous consent a bill that would give the chief of the US Capitol Police unilateral control to ask for support from the National Guard or federal law enforcement in the event of an

By Lauren Fox and Ella Nilsen, CNN As Democrats race to finish the President’s Build Back Better legislation before the Christmas recess and convince a skeptical West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, there are other obstacles piling up that could prevent them from meeting their self-imposed deadline. With fewer than two weeks to go until the

By Michael Warren, CNN Televisions and phone screens lit up Monday night with the face of Rep. Liz Cheney as she slowly read text messages sent on January 6 to former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff. Her methodical recounting of a series of texts to Mark Meadows from lawmakers, reporters, Fox News hosts and

By Kara Scannell, CNN The Trump Organization has formally notified the General Service Administration about its proposed sale of the lease for its hotel in Washington, DC, moving a step closer to offloading the property. “GSA has been formally notified of the proposed transfer and is committed to conducting a thorough review to ensure compliance

By Jeremy Herb and Ryan Nobles, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol released new text messages obtained from former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that were sent to him in the days leading up to the insurrection and while the Capitol was under siege.

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge on Tuesday dealt a blow to former President Donald Trump‘s bid to keep his tax returns from Congress, ruling that the Treasury Department could disclose them to the House committee that requested them more than two years ago. Overnight, Trump’s attorneys told the court they would appeal. The

By Kate Bennett, CNN The White House will dramatically scale back holiday party festivities this year, due to ongoing Covid-19 concerns, opting instead for smaller open house-style events. “In the coming days, we will host a limited number of Holiday Open Houses, inviting guests to see the Christmas decorations in person at the White House,”