National Politics

By Devan Cole, CNN San Francisco Mayor London Breed is defending herself after flouting the city’s indoor mask mandate, criticizing “fun police” for raising questions about her recent appearance at a live concert where she was seen dancing and posing for photos without a mask on. In video shared on social media, Breed, a Democrat,

By Jason Hoffman and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The United States is extending nonessential travel restrictions at land crossings with Canada and Mexico through October 21, even as it makes plans to allow fully vaccinated foreign visitors to come to the US later this year. “We do not have any updates to the land border policies

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN The Veterans Affairs Department issued guidance stating military service members who were discharged because of their sexual orientation, gender identity or HIV status under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy are eligible for all Veterans Affairs benefits. Assistant Secretary in the Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the Department of

By Kate Sullivan, Kevin Liptak and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden will speak with French President Emmanuel Macron “in the coming days” and reaffirm the US’ commitment to working with France on a range of global issues amid the worst diplomatic spat between the two nations in years. White House press secretary Jen Psaki

By Whitney Wild, CNN Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Gary Peters has written Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, asking for information about their policies and practices to monitor and remove extremist violent content. This is the first major public document request from the committee investigating the January 6 insurrection after it released its

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is planning to raise the refugee cap for fiscal year 2022 to 125,000, in line with the goal President Joe Biden set. Biden previously conceded that his goal of 125,000 refugee admissions within the first fiscal year of his presidency “will still be hard to hit,” but the

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court will hear a case concerning a Mississippi abortion law on December 1, the court announced on Monday, teeing up one of the most substantial cases of the term in which the justices are being asked to overturn Roe v. Wade. The Biden administration urged

By Clare Foran, Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer, CNN Congressional Democratic leaders announced on Monday that they will attach a suspension of the debt limit to a must-pass spending bill to keep the government funded, a move that essentially dares Republicans to vote no and spark a shutdown. The issue is expected to trigger a

By Tierney Sneed, Kara Scannell, Yon Pomrenze and Paula Reid, CNN Allen Weisselberg — the former Trump Organization CFO who has been charged by Manhattan prosecutors for an alleged tax evasion scheme — is expecting that more indictments will be filed in the case after tax documents were found in an alleged co-conspirator’s basement, Weisselberg’s

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden is mobilizing an interagency effort to deal with the effects of extreme heat across the country, the White House announced Monday. Extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death in the US, the White House said in a fact sheet, citing record-setting temperatures over the summer and

By Kevin Liptak, Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN The United States plans to ease travel restrictions on all fully vaccinated foreign visitors starting in November, the White House said Monday, relaxing a patchwork of bans that had begun to cause fury in Europe and replacing them with more uniform requirements for inbound international air

By Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing a major dilemma: September 27 — the day she promised a vote on a trillion-dollar infrastructure deal that passed the Senate last month — is fast approaching. But no matter how she maneuvers from now until then, a new problem emerges. If,

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Democrats likely will not be able to include a pathway to legalization for millions of immigrants in their $3.5 trillion bill to expand the country’s social safety net after new guidance from the Senate parliamentarian Sunday night. The decision comes as a resounding rebuke to Democrats, according

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Sunday he will travel to the US southern border as the Biden administration grapples with the thousands of migrants who have amassed in Del Rio, Texas, and ramps up deportation flights to Haiti. “I will be traveling to the border myself,” Mayorkas told CNN’s Jim