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By Daniel Dale, CNN In a speech in Michigan on Tuesday and again in a speech back in Washington on Friday, President Joe Biden touted the potential economic impact of his two major current legislative proposals: a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and a larger, still-being-negotiated Democratic reconciliation package that would expand the social safety

By Jim Acosta and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former Trump aide Dan Scavino has been served a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, bringing an end to the panel’s struggle to physically locate him. A process server brought the

By Lauren Fox, Annie Grayer and Melanie Zanona, CNN With a debt ceiling crisis punted until December, Democrats are turning their sights back to their own agenda, a move that will shake the party’s resolve and test whether it can make hard choices and compromise a reality. Already, Democrats have struggled to contain bitter infighting

By Rachel Janfaza and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Friday warned President Joe Biden he should not expect cooperation on raising the debt ceiling again, a day after he voted with Democrats to overcome a procedural hurdle and make way for a temporary extension of the limit through early December. “I

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A US delegation was set to meet with “senior Taliban representatives from Kabul” in Doha, Qatar, this weekend, a State Department official said ahead of the meeting — the first such gathering since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August. “This meeting is a continuation of the pragmatic

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, an urgent showdown over the debt ceiling was averted — for now — as Republicans cut a deal that pushed the deadline back by two months. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court returned for in-person proceedings for the first time since the pandemic began, kicking off what is expected to be

By Hannah Rabinowitz A federal judge on Friday sentenced one of the US Capitol rioters to three months in jail, saying that the punishment should be a warning to other defendants that they deserve incarceration if they deflect responsibility or downplay the attack. “It has become evident to me in the riot cases that many

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court on Friday night put a temporary hold on a judge’s order that had blocked Texas’ six-week abortion ban. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals acted swiftly to grant Texas’ request for an administrative stay of the order, which it had filed Friday afternoon. The state’s move

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Federal Election Commission won’t take action against the Republican National Committee for how it paid for the lawyers who represented then-President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., in the various Russia investigations. The campaign finance allegations against the RNC — which were filed with the FEC in 2018