National Politics

By Kate Bennett, CNN The East Wing has been in discussions about first lady Jill Biden attending the Opening Ceremony for the Olympics in Tokyo next month, a White House official tells CNN. Asked by a reporter on Tuesday whether the first lady will go, President Joe Biden said it was a possibility. “Well, we’re

By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Surfside, Florida, on Thursday after a residential building partially collapsed in the coastal city last week, the White House announced on Tuesday. At least 11 people are dead and 150 people are unaccounted for, while search and rescue teams continue to

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden argued in Wisconsin on Tuesday that the bipartisan infrastructure proposal he agreed to last week would benefit working and middle-class families around the country. “After months of careful negotiation — of listening, compromising together and in good faith moving together, with ups and downs and some blips —

By Dianne Gallagher and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Maricopa County, Arizona, announced Monday that it will not reuse any of the voting equipment that was in the hands of the contractors hired by the Republican-controlled state Senate to conduct its so-called audit of the 2020 presidential election results. In a letter sent to Arizona Secretary of

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A left-leaning group plans to spend $7 million to help elect Democratic secretaries of state and attorneys general in key battlegrounds — a big investment in down-ballot races that loom large in voting rights battles around the country. End Citizens United/Let America Vote on Tuesday will endorse six Democratic incumbents as

By Kate Bennett, CNN It is back en vogue for the first lady to be back in Vogue. After a four year hiatus of first ladies gracing the cover of the fashion magazine, Jill Biden is on the August issue, which goes on sale on July 20. Biden, who posed for the pictures this spring

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Justice Stephen Breyer has taken a commanding role in the final days of the Supreme Court session, writing decisions preserving Obamacare and bolstering student free speech and, when conservatives ruled against union organizing on agricultural land, forcefully dissenting for the left wing. But what some

By Alex Rogers, CNN The House passed a resolution Tuesday to expel Confederate statues from the US Capitol and replace its bust of Roger B. Taney, the chief justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, with one honoring Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court justice. The vote was 285 to 120. Sixty-seven Republicans

CNN’s Erin Burnett talks to the former daughter-in-law of top Trump Organization official Allen Weisselberg, Jennifer Weisselberg, about the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into the Trump Organization.

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The former daughter-in-law of a Trump Organization officer said Monday evening that she is prepared to testify before a grand jury convened by Manhattan’s top prosecutor as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s sprawling company. Jennifer Weisselberg — a former ballet dancer who was married to Barry, the

By Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s vow to hold up a bipartisan infrastructure deal until the Senate approves a larger Democratic bill has caused some anxiety in the ranks, with moderate Democrats uneasy over her tactic and concerned it could cause both efforts to collapse. The California Democrat’s stance has earned

By Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden planned to spend a peaceful weekend at Camp David — but instead, he spent two days working to salvage the bipartisan infrastructure plan he had imperiled with a stray comment to reporters as he celebrated the announcement of the deal. The 48-hour chaos exposed Biden’s

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN During a news conference Monday calling into question the safety of the Covid-19 vaccines, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin again incorrectly used figures from an early warning system by the federal government to support his argument that vaccines may not be completely safe. Johnson argued that while most people don’t

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is preparing to close some emergency shelters for unaccompanied migrant children just weeks after considering expanding one of the sites. The move comes in the wake of testimonials from kids that shed light on the subpar conditions at some of the sites and that have opened up the

By Marshall Cohen, CNN Excerpts from three upcoming books revealed previously unknown efforts by former President Donald Trump to abuse the powers of his office to overturn the 2020 election, deploy the military against racial justice protests and prosecute his political opponents. The excerpts also shed new light on Trump’s increasingly unstable mindset in his

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) discusses reports that rockets landed on a US military base in eastern Syria, a day after the US carried out airstrikes on Iranian-backed militias.

By Ryan Nobles and Kristin Wilson, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has introduced a resolution that will form a select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection, a resolution which is expected to get a vote in the chamber later this week. According to the resolution, the committee will be made up of 13 members.

By Paul LeBlanc and Stella Chan, CNN California will ban state-funded travel to five new states over their “discriminatory” LGBTQ laws, state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday, citing the importance of “aligning our dollars with our values.” The new travel restrictions target Arkansas, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia over what the attorney

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Former President Barack Obama said Monday that action to protect voting rights is even more important in the wake of the 2020 election, taking a swipe at his immediate successor as having violated a “core tenant” of the American election system and for spreading baseless claims of voter fraud. During a