National Politics

By Whitney Wild, CNN US Capitol Police on Tuesday took into custody a suspect from a “suspicious vehicle” parked near the Supreme Court after giving the person commands and using a flash bang device. They said in a news conference Tuesday afternoon they don’t know what motivated the man who they identified as Dale Paul

By Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein, Jason Hoffman and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden traveled to mid-Michigan on Tuesday as he looks to regain momentum on his twin economic packages, which remain stalled on Capitol Hill because of sharp divisions within his own party about the size and scope of the plans. During a speech

By Jessica Schneider and Chandelis Duster, CNN Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday that new information has emerged concerning two former FBI agents accused of mishandling the investigation into allegations of abuse against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. “I can inform the committee today that the recently confirmed Assistant AG for the criminal

By Devan Cole, CNN A bipartisan group of former public officials and lawyers are urging the California bar association to investigate a conservative lawyer who reportedly tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6. In a letter sent Monday by more than two dozen people —

By Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, CNN Secretary of State Tony Blinken met with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and French President Emmanuel Macon in Paris Tuesday amid tensions between the two countries that — at least once in a TV interview — boiled to the surface. A senior State Department official described Blinken’s

By Kate Bennett and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Donald Trump’s former press secretary admitted Tuesday that she didn’t vote for him in the 2020 election, when she was still working in the East Wing for former first lady Melania Trump. Stephanie Grisham, who worked as East Wing communications director, White House press secretary and chief

By Tami Luhby, CNN Medicaid expansion has finally begun in Missouri, nearly five months after Republican Gov. Mike Parson unsuccessfully tried to block it. Roughly 275,000 low-income adults in the state are now eligible for coverage. MO HealthNet, the state’s Medicaid program, has already received more than 17,000 applications since the sign up process started

By Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN Republicans don’t want the nation to default on its debts and they support more funding for roads and bridges. Yet they’re fully prepared to oppose bills that would achieve both those goals. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is doubling down on his months-long threats to block any efforts

By Devan Cole, CNN Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday reflected on the Supreme Court’s return to in-person oral arguments earlier that day, saying he prefers the high court’s usual structure over the virtual system the nine jurists had started using just after the Covid-19 pandemic paralyzed much of the country last year. In a wide-ranging

By Whitney Wild, CNN Members of Capitol Hill security will be able to file whistleblower complaints about potential wrongdoing directly to a congressional committee, Rep. Rodney Davis announced on Monday. The Illinois Republican serves as the ranking member of the Committee on House Administration, one of four that oversee the US Capitol Police and one

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent A top State Department legal adviser leaving his post told his colleagues in a memo over the weekend that the Biden administration’s deportations of Haitians from the US-Mexico border are illegal and inhumane. Harold Koh, a senior adviser at State, sent the memo taking issue with the administration’s decision

By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 response coordinator is having discussions with the leaders of several major airlines about vaccine requirements for employees, according to a source familiar with the talks. Jeff Zients, the White House official leading the Biden administration’s response to the pandemic, has urged the CEOs to act sooner rather

Tierney Sneed, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday defended the Justice Department against claims that it is not charging the rioters who breached the US Capitol on January 6 harshly enough. “Prosecutors involved in this case are making determinations in every case about what charge fits the offense, what charge fits the law,” Garland

By Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday pushed back on several politically sensitive positions his party leaders are taking at a crucial time for President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda. The West Virginia Democrat, who holds a pivotal vote in the 50-50 Senate, indicated to CNN that he disagrees with