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By Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel, Zachary Cohen, Gloria Borger and Sara Murray, CNN As the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack nears its final chapter, members plan to meet in person on Tuesday and one of the most pressing questions they’ll address is whether the committee should formally request that former President

By Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet have been in touch with the unions and companies involved in the high-stakes freight-rail labor negotiations, as alarm about a possible strike continues to grow inside the administration. Top White House officials have been closely watching US freight rail labor negotiations, keenly aware

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Texas woman who allegedly left a series of threatening messages on the voicemail of a federal judge overseeing one of former President Donald Trump’s legal fights in Florida was arrested last week, according to court documents. Tiffani Shea Gish, of Houston, left three voicemails for Aileen Cannon, a federal judge

By Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray, CNN The Justice Department said it is open to a judge appointing one of the candidates that former President Donald Trump’s legal team put forward as a special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, according to a court filing Monday evening. DOJ said senior Judge Raymond Dearie

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Americans are beginning to learn how funds from the bipartisan infrastructure package passed by Congress late last year will help improve their roads, bridges and airports. Billions of dollars in federal funds have been awarded to specific infrastructure projects and doled out to states across the country over the past 10

By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Annie Grayer, CNN The House of Representatives will return to work in Washington this week following the August recess with a government shutdown deadline looming at the end of the month and the midterms — where a major fight is underway for control of the chamber — fast approaching

By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Phil Mattingly, CNN When President Joe Biden convened nearly a dozen Western leaders by private video conference on Thursday to discuss the war in Ukraine, he was intent upon delivering a key message, sources say: to stay unified in punishing Russia, even as the Kremlin tries to weaponize

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election loss that he would remain in the White House rather than let incoming President Joe Biden take over, according to reporting provided to CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. “I’m just

By Gregory Krieg, CNN Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman and top allies on Sunday hammered Republican Mehmet Oz over past remarks calling abortion “murder” and warned that Oz would be a “rubber stamp” for a national ban. “Women are the reason we can win,” Fetterman said. “Don’t piss women off.” The packed rally, which

By Jake Tapper, Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Buckingham Palace did not invite President Joe Biden to assemble a delegation to attend the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II next week, and instead extended a specific invitation for only the President and first lady, a White House official told CNN. The White House announced Sunday that

By Devan Cole and Sarah Fortinsky, CNN Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that there is a “risk” that US gas prices could rise again later this year, as fears grow over the possibility that Americans’ wallets could be strained by a spike in prices similar to the one seen this summer. “Well, it’s a

By Josh Campbell, CNN The head of US Customs and Border Protection on Saturday condemned several retweets from an official CBP regional Twitter account of “offensive” tweets made earlier that day by a former top adviser in the Trump administration. The official CBP Twitter account for the agency’s West Texas sector retweeted two posts by

By Nikki Carvajal, Jasmine Wright and Kate Bennett, CNN President Joe Biden commemorated the 21st anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks at a remembrance event Sunday at the Pentagon, delivering heartfelt remarks that honored those killed there. “I know for all those of you who lost someone, 21 years is both a lifetime and no