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By Jamie Gangel, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday issued a blanket threat during a meeting with freshmen members of his caucus that he would strip any Republican member of their committee assignments if they accept an offer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to serve on the select committee to investigate the January

By Ryan Nobles, CNN Nearly 40 House Democrats are demanding House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy take what they call “immediate action” to address the behavior of GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, whose actions, they say in a Thursday letter obtained by CNN, “could lead to violence against members of Congress.” The group chose

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Nicolette Carrion did a little dance when she cast her first ballot ever in last year’s election. “Now that I’m 18, I’m able to invest in my future in being able to vote, in a way I wasn’t able to before,” she said. Carrion’s right to vote at age 18 comes

Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney’s office ahead of expected criminal charges against him and the company in connection with alleged tax crimes, his attorney told CNN.

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden, whose empathy amid loss is his chief political characteristic, traveled Thursday to console families in Florida who are enduring the excruciating search for loved ones inside a seaside condo that suddenly collapsed a week ago. “Never give up hope,” he told the anguished relatives of those still missing,

Rescue crews pull in more resources as children are identified among the 18 killed in a Florida condo collapse.

By Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson and Sarah Fortinsky, CNN Rep. Madison Cawthorn once opposed the special Covid-era rule that lets House members vote even when they’re away from the House, calling it for “cowards,” but on Wednesday the North Carolina Republican made flagrant and unabashed use of it — by traveling to the border wall

By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg is appearing in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday afternoon to respond to criminal charges against him and the company in connection with alleged tax crimes. The indictment charges the Trump Organization, Trump Payroll Corporation and Allen Weisselberg. Prosecutors in court described a

By Devan Cole, CNN Transgender Americans can now more easily change the sex marker on their US passports, the State Department announced Wednesday, promising to unveil more gender-inclusive changes to passport applications in the future. The department said in a statement it will be updating its procedures to allow applicants to self-select their sex marker

By Daniella Diaz, CNN Former President Donald Trump still wants a wall on the southern border. And he said it’s Democrats’ fault it hasn’t happened yet. On this wet, humid Wednesday on the South Texas border, Trump met with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and more than 20 House Republicans and

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Friends and family members of a US Capitol rioter charged with dragging a police officer into the violent mob told a federal judge that he was actually trying to help the officer despite video of the harrowing incident showing him pulling the officer away from the police line. Kentucky resident Clayton

By Kristen Holmes and Kaitlan Collins, CNN A federal agency announced Wednesday evening that it will launch an investigation into what caused the building collapse in Surfside, Florida. The announcement of the full technical investigation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a small agency within the Commerce Department, follows an initial assessment and

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Attorneys are still trying to reach the parents of 368 migrant children who had been separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration, down from 391 last month, according to a federal court filing Wednesday. The filing from the Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union is part of

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a bill repealing a Trump-era rule that rolled back regulations on methane emissions — a particularly potent greenhouse gas believed to contribute significantly to the climate crisis — from the oil and gas industries. The President described the bill as an “important first step” to

By Zachary Cohen and Geneva Sands, CNN Department of Homeland Security officials are warning that the same sort of rhetoric and false narratives that fueled the January 6 attack on the US Capitol could lead to more violence this summer by right-wing extremists. A growing belief among some Donald Trump supporters that the former President

By Tami Luhby, CNN While states feared the coronavirus pandemic would wreak havoc on their budgets and force them to slash services, it turns out that many are doing far better than they predicted. So instead of cutting spending in the wake of the pandemic, many states are cutting taxes. Nine states have passed legislation

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service still had more than 35 million tax returns to process at the end of this year’s filing season, a backlog four times bigger than at the end of the 2019 filing season. About 23 million of those returns were filed by individuals who may be waiting on