National Politics

By Gregory Krieg, CNN For all but eight of the last 30 years, a Republican has occupied the governor’s office in Massachusetts. The state that so many Americans equate with mainline liberalism — “Taxachusetts” was the GOP’s old derisive nickname — has a habit of electing Republicans to its top job, even as it sends

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN Sean Spicer and Russ Vought have sued the Biden administration over their threatened removal from the Naval Academy Board of Visitors. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court in DC, alleges that the pair is being unlawfully threatened with removal from the board to which President

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A coalition of Texas abortion providers went back to the Supreme Court Thursday, asking the justices to expedite a review of the state law that bars abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The law has been in effect for 23 days, but the federal appeals court hearing

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Kristin Wilson, Melanie Zanona and Clare Foran, CNN House GOP leaders are rallying Republican lawmakers in opposition to an infrastructure bill that is expected to come to a vote next week, the latest sign of partisan divisions on Capitol Hill and a warning for Democrats that they cannot afford large

By Matt Egan The White House’s top emissary to the business community hit back at the US Chamber of Commerce Thursday after the powerful lobby launched an ad blitz aimed at sinking President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion infrastructure and spending plan. “I was very disappointed in that. It’s not productive. It’s not helpful,” Commerce Secretary

By Nicole Gaouette, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US is working on contingency plans if Iran continues to make nuclear advances and fails to return to international talks, a senior State Department official said Thursday, adding that as the US and allies wait for Tehran to return to nuclear talks, their patience won’t

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Washington National Cathedral announced Thursday it has commissioned renowned Black artist Kerry James Marshall to create “racial-justice themed windows” that will replace two stained-glass windows the church removed in 2017 that memorialized Confederate Gens. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. The church has also tapped celebrated poet Elizabeth Alexander,

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert paid utility and rent bills with campaign funds, according to a new filing the Republican lawmaker made this week with the Federal Election Commission. The report, submitted to the FEC on Tuesday, details a series of four payments this year totaling $6,650 to John Pacheco, whose address

By Annie Grayer, CNN The House on Thursday easily approved a bill to provide funding for Israel’s Iron Dome after it was removed from a separate bill to prevent a government shutdown and suspend the nation’s borrowing limit. The $1 billion in funding allocated for the aerial defense system had initially been included in the

By Jason Hoffman, CNN The Biden administration on Thursday will outline how the United States will allocate a $10 billion commitment to the effort to “end hunger and invest in food systems at home and abroad,” saying $5 billion will go toward strengthening food systems in America and $5 billion for overseas. The investments will

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security has temporarily suspended the use of horse patrol in the Del Rio, Texas, sector, a Homeland Security official told reporters Thursday, after stunning images from the scene prompted bipartisan criticism of the Biden administration’s handling of the crisis at the US-Mexico border. An investigation was launched

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent House and Senate Democratic leaders say they’ve reached a deal with the Biden administration on options for paying for the Democrats’ massive plan to expand the social safety net. But it quickly became clear that the deal lacked many specifics, needed to be sold to Congress and required

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN This week, a Texas lawmaker introduced a bill that would mandate third-party reviews of the 2020 election in the state’s largest counties. In Wisconsin, a Republican overseeing a partisan investigation of last year’s election results recently warned local election clerks of potential subpoenas. And in Pennsylvania, a legal battle has erupted

By Ella Nilsen and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The Biden administration announced Thursday it will reduce the use of hydrofluorocarbons, the potent greenhouse gases also known as HFCs that are used in air conditioning and refrigeration, by 85% in the next 15 years. The administration will set caps on the production and import of HFCs, enforcing

By Betsy Klein, CNN The government is due to run out of funding on September 30 without congressional action, so it’s about that time again. When the US government is within seven days of a potential shutdown, no matter the circumstances or state of play in funding negotiations, the Office of Management and Budget begins

By Daniella Diaz, Betsy Klein, Jasmine Wright and Kevin Liptak, CNN Democrats are blasting the Biden administration for its treatment of Haitian migrants at the Southern border and want answers from officials after videos from other outlets appear to show border patrol officials using aggressive tactics when confronting them. The requests comes days after videos

By Chandelis Duster and Etant Dupain, CNN Daniel Foote, the US special envoy for Haiti, has handed in his resignation to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying he will “not be associated with the United States inhumane, counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitian refugees” from the US-Mexico border. He adds that the US policy

By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst In a way, it’s almost hard to believe: Here Democrats are, in control of the Congress and the White House, and they can’t figure out how to get to yes and pass a measure the public actually likes. Sure, President Joe Biden’s economic agenda is bigger than the

By Phil Mattingly and Lauren Fox, CNN President Joe Biden didn’t enter the back-to-back-back meetings on Wednesday with nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers demanding a deal — or even looking for one. Things are simply too far apart for that at the moment. But he did demand action, according to lawmakers and officials involved in