Politics

By Kate Sullivan and Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN President Joe Biden received his Covid-19 vaccine booster shot on Monday afternoon at the White House just days after booster doses were approved by federal health officials. “We know that to beat this pandemic and to save lives … we need to get folks vaccinated,” Biden said during

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The Justice Department reached a deal with John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981, to free him from the strict conditions of release that he’s been living with for several years. Hinckley was released from a mental hospital in 2016 and has lived in Williamsburg, Virginia,

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court justices, on the verge of a new term, will meet behind closed doors on Monday to discuss petitions that have accumulated over the summer and decide which cases should be added to the court’s docket. The private conference comes a week before the new term

By Priya Krishnakumar, CNN The FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020 on Monday, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s. The report, which is on par with preliminary numbers that were

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration Monday morning took steps to save the Obama-era DACA program that shields hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children from deportation. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been the subject of ongoing litigation since it was established in 2012. President Donald

By Lauren Fox and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden enters the most seismic week of his legislative agenda explicitly set to miss one deadline and implicitly knowing he’ll soon have to bow to a Republican blockade on another. Feverish talks over the course of the weekend led to a rhetorical intraparty pressure release, but

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Rep. Liz Cheney said she had been “wrong” to oppose same-sex marriage as she reflected on the stance that sparked an open rift with her sister during her unsuccessful Senate bid in 2013. “I was wrong. I was wrong. I love my sister very much. I love her family very much.

By Jeffrey Toobin, CNN Dr. Aaron Kesselheim had been on an advisory committee for the US Food and Drug Administration for a half-dozen years, but he had never been to a meeting like this one. The FDA establishes advisory committees to assist the federal agency with one of its most important duties: deciding whether to

By Manveena Suri and Olga Pavlova, CNN Russian fighter jets were scrambled to escort a US Air Force plane that reportedly approached Russian airspace over the Pacific Ocean, Russian state news agency TASS said Sunday. There were no violations of Russia’s state border during the episode, according to TASS, which, citing Russia’s National Defense Command

By Devan Cole, CNN Republican Sen. Pat Toomey said Sunday that he opposes a Democratic plan to combine a temporary government funding bill with a suspension of the debt ceiling. “So I will certainly be voting no if the Democrats insist on combining the debt ceiling increase or suspension with the continuing operations of the

By Michael Warren Herschel Walker flashed his megawatt smile and shook hands with adoring Georgia Bulldog football fans before the team’s recent home game, and then did what he is most famous for: he ran like hell. The legendary running back who won the 1982 Heisman Trophy is avoiding public events and questions from the