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By Arlette Saenz and Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Saturday tried to walk back remarks from earlier this week when he said he wouldn’t sign a bipartisan bill on infrastructure unless it came paired with a reconciliation proposal for “human infrastructure,” the latest in a series of cleanup efforts from the White House

CNN’s Jim Acosta talks with Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and tries to speak with Congressman Mo Brooks (R-AL) about the January 6th insurrection and conspiracy theories surrounding it.

By Ariane de Vogue and Chandelis Duster, CNN The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act on Thursday in a decision that will leave the law intact and save health care coverage for millions of Americans. The justices turned away a challenge from Republican-led states and the former Trump administration, which urged

By Jim Acosta and Alexander Hunter, CNN GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene would like to serve on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection, the Georgia freshman told CNN in an interview Thursday. “Sure. She should put me on the committee. That would be great,” Greene told CNN. Greene’s interest

By Daniel Dale, CNN Last Sunday, CNN “State of the Union” co-anchor Dana Bash pressed White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on the Biden administration’s approach to Nord Stream 2, a controversial and nearly completed pipeline that will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea. Bash said to Sullivan that

By Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins, Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN At first glance, the bipartisan infrastructure deal that emerged this week seemed like a ripe opportunity for President Joe Biden to take a dig at his predecessor, whose attempts at focusing on roads and bridges often went awry. “Welcome to infrastructure week!” read the

By Dan Merica, CNN Former President Donald Trump kicked off his revenge tour against Republicans who defied him in the aftermath of the 2020 election on Saturday, using a sizable event here in Lorain County to lambast Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez for voting to impeach him earlier this year. The effort to oust the Republicans

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter When Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared before cameras Friday to announce a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s new voting restrictions, it was the timing and the Justice Department’s strategy that intrigued voting rights experts. That’s because the lawsuit — triggering the latest dispute about the scope of Section 2

By Katie Bo Williams, CNN The US intelligence community on Friday released a hotly anticipated report on what it knows about a series of mysterious sightings of unidentified flying objects by Navy pilots and others. The report, which examined 144 reports of what the government terms “unexplained aerial phenomena” between 2004 and 2021, is among

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Video shot on January 6 captures a US Capitol rioter with a lengthy criminal history heckling police with a bullhorn and spraying an unknown substance toward them. Sean McHugh of Auburn, California, is accused of obstruction and assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon, among other charges. The video

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN White House aides prepared a draft proclamation last June to invoke the Insurrection Act as then-President Donald Trump debated deploying active-duty US soldiers in response to protests after the death of George Floyd, The New York Times reported Friday, citing two senior Trump administration officials. The aides put together the proposed

By Tami Luhby, CNN Indiana must continue paying pandemic unemployment benefits to roughly 230,000 Hoosiers until a lawsuit challenging the early termination of the compensation is decided, a state judge ruled Friday. Jobless workers filed a lawsuit earlier this month challenging Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb’s order to cease the payments — including the $300 weekly

By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, President Biden announced he and a bipartisan group of senators reached a long-sought deal on infrastructure, but there are caution signs ahead. Meanwhile, the spotlight remained on the Capitol riot as more January 6 videos were unveiled, the House announced an investigation and the first defendant was sentenced. Monday

By Eric Bradner and David Wright, CNN In the key battleground state of Arizona, Republican legislators this week moved to weaken the authority of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, by limiting her ability to defend election lawsuits. Late Thursday, the Arizona House passed a series of GOP-backed election measures, which were included in

By Donald Judd and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden said on Friday that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s 22-year sentence for the murder of George Floyd “seems to be appropriate” after being informed of the decision by reporters. “I don’t know all the circumstances that were considered, but it seems to me, under

By CNN The US intelligence community on Friday released its long-awaited report on what it knows about a series of mysterious flying objects that have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the last several decades. Read the full report below: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights

By Katie Bo Williams, Zachary Cohen and Jeremy Herb, CNN The US intelligence community on Friday released its long-awaited report on what it knows about a series of mysterious flying objects that have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the last several decades. In short, the answer, according to Friday’s report, is very

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent GOP opposition is hardening over a massive infrastructure plan and a revamp of policing laws, scrambling the prospects of two of President Joe Biden’s top domestic priorities at a crucial juncture on Capitol Hill. Republicans are pushing back at Biden’s efforts to tie a bipartisan Senate deal on

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Three whistleblowers are urging the Biden administration to do more to vaccinate immigrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention amid mounting criticism over the agency’s response to the pandemic within its facilities, according to a letter obtained by CNN. Friday’s letter comes as Vice President Kamala Harris visited the US-Mexico border

By Michael Warren and Kristen Holmes, CNN The Justice Department is suing Georgia over the state’s new voting restrictions — and handing Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who signed the changes into law earlier this year, a potential political boost ahead of his reelection bid. Sources close to Kemp described the DOJ’s actions as a positive