National Politics

By Annie Grayer, CNN Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders and Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal both wanted the top line for Democrats’ sweeping spending plan to be higher, in fact nearly double the $3.5 trillion framework that was announced Tuesday. The pair had been working behind the scenes and around the clock to ensure progressive

By Kara Scannell A federal judge in New York rejected Lev Parnas’ motion to dismiss fraud and campaign finances charges, finding an argument that he was prosecuted to block him from cooperating against former President Donald Trump is “not just speculative, but implausible.” Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, argued that he was arrested

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A former Oklahoma City Thunder employee turned in by her former coworkers pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge for her part in the US Capitol insurrection. Danielle Doyle, 37, pleaded guilty to illegally demonstrating inside the US Capitol on January 6 and agreed to pay $500 in restitution for

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Sen. Joe Manchin, the Democrats’ most pivotal swing vote, expressed his most serious concerns yet about a key element in their party’s $3.5 trillion sweeping economic plan: Provisions dealing with climate change that have been sought by progressives. Manchin, who hails from coal-producing West Virginia, told CNN that

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN American travelers who do not currently have valid US passports may not be able to travel overseas this summer due to extensive wait times as the State Department deals with a backlog of more than a million applications caused largely by the coronavirus pandemic, a department official said Wednesday. “Currently, our

By Geneva Sands, CNN US border authorities in June arrested or turned away the highest monthly number of migrants at the US-Mexico border in at least a decade, according to a Department of Homeland Security official familiar with the figures and to previously published data. They encountered around 188,800 migrants in June, up from 180,034

By CNN FBI officials investigating allegations of sexual abuse by disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar violated the agency’s policies by making false statements and failing to properly document complaints by the accusers, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a scathing report Wednesday. Read the report here: cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/justice-department-investigation-report-nassar/index.html The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News

FBI officials investigating allegations of sexual abuse by disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar violated the agency’s policies by making false statements and failing to properly document complaints by the accusers, the Justice Department’s inspector general said in a scathing report Wednesday. Read the report here: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a

By Christina Carrega, Evan Perez and Devan Cole, CNN FBI officials investigating allegations of sexual abuse by disgraced USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar violated the agency’s policies by making false statements and failing to properly document complaints by the accusers, resulting in a delay in the probe into the claims, the Justice Department’s inspector general

By Daniel Dale Thousands of Afghans who worked with American troops face grave danger as a result of the ongoing US military withdrawal from Afghanistan. In a speech last week about the withdrawal plan, President Joe Biden said he is trying to speed up the processing of the Special Immigrant Visas (SIV) that will allow

By Jessica Dean and Paul LeBlanc, CNN A group of Texas House Democrats who fled their state in a bid to stop restrictive voting legislation met with Democratic US Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Jeff Merkley and, Raphael Warnock on Wednesday as they press Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation. “We’re actually handing the baton to

By Andrew Kaczynski and Drew Myers, CNN Ohio Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance, a venture capitalist and author of the bestselling book “Hillbilly Elegy,” disparaged then-President Donald Trump as a “moral disaster” whose administration had “no domestic policy agenda besides tax cuts” in Twitter direct messages from summer 2017. Vance made the comments, which were

By Melanie Zanona, Daniella Diaz and Lauren Fox, CNN The House select committee investigating the Capitol riot will hold its first hearing on July 27 to hear directly from Capitol and DC police officers who responded to the deadly attack, Democratic leaders announced Wednesday. The hearing will mark the first time the panel will hear

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Nearly a decade after being allowed to work legally in the US, Ju Hong was back at square one this month, scrambling to obtain a work permit and seeking continued protection from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Hong has been a DACA recipient since 2012 but

By Ryan Nobles and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a group of other Senate Democrats introduced draft legislation on Wednesday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by striking it from the federal controlled substances list. It’s significant for a Senate majority leader to back such a measure and the

By Tami Luhby, CNN More than 2 million Americans have signed up for 2021 coverage during a special enrollment period on the Obamacare federal and state exchanges, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Wednesday. The report includes plan selections from February 15, when President Joe Biden reopened enrollment to the uninsured, through June.

By Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN The way some Republican lawmakers tell it, the federal government is coming door-to-door to create a registry of the unvaccinated and force people to receive one of the Covid-19 vaccines. On July 6, President Joe Biden announced five areas his administration would focus on to get Americans vaccinated,

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration is launching “Operation Allies Refuge,” an effort to relocate thousands of Afghan interpreters and translators who worked for the United States throughout its nearly two-decade military campaign in Afghanistan and now fear for their safety. Flights for Afghan special immigrant visa (SIV) applicants “who are already in the