National Politics

By Ali Zaslav and Lauren Fox, CNN The Senate voted on Thursday to advance a bill to create a fast-track process allowing Democrats to raise the federal debt limit, a crucial next step as lawmakers race the clock to avert a catastrophic debt default. To get there, the plan’s supporters needed to break a GOP

By Lauren Fox, Sonnet Swire and Matthew Hoye, CNN The Elizabeth Dole Foundation confirms it has cut ties with event organizer Tim Unes who was working on late Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole’s funeral arrangements because of Unes’ alleged role in helping to organize the January 6 “Stop the Steal” rally, which ultimately led to

By Daniel Dale President Joe Biden visited Missouri on Wednesday to promote the infrastructure law he signed in November. And Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also a US Senate candidate in the 2022 election, greeted Biden with a scathing letter — one which began with a false claim. Schmitt’s first paragraph

By Zachary Cohen, CNN A growing number of key allies of former President Donald Trump are refusing to cooperate with the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, using various tactics to skirt the panel’s subpoenas and stonewall the sweeping probe. Members of the committee are convinced there are still plenty of ways

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN At least 650 people died attempting to cross the US-Mexico border this year, more than any other year since an international agency began documenting deaths in 2014. The International Organization for Migration — the agency documenting the deaths — didn’t specify the reason for the deaths but crossing the US southern

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Jamie Gangel, Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, CNN Kash Patel, a former chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, met with the House committee investigating January 6, according to a source familiar with the matter. CNN spotted Patel on Thursday walk into a room with a team of lawyers

By Gregory Krieg and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that she is ending her bid for governor of the state and instead running for reelection. “I have come to the conclusion that I must continue my work as attorney general,” James said in a statement Thursday. “There are a

By Jamie Gangel and Zachary Cohen, CNN Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows provided the House select committee investigating the January 6 riot with text messages and emails that show he was “exchanging with a wide range of individuals while the attack was underway,” according to a source with knowledge of the communications.

By Kara Scannell and Sonia Moghe, CNN The New York attorney general subpoenaed former President Donald Trump for his testimony as part of a civil fraud investigation into the Trump Organization, according to people familiar with the matter. Letitia James, the New York attorney general, has set a deadline for the deposition by January 7,

By Annie Grayer and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN “Stop the Steal” leader Ali Alexander, who helped organize the rally that preceded the Capitol attack, on Thursday appeared in front of the House select committee investigating January 6 and told reporters he will cooperate. “I’m going to go in there and cooperate where I can, where I

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Biden administration officials on Thursday warned that the United States is prepared to turn to “other options” should diplomatic efforts to return to mutual compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran fail. As negotiations resumed in Vienna, Austria, the administration also confirmed it will dispatch an interagency delegation to the

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden and top congressional leaders on Thursday honored the late Republican Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas at a congressional tribute ceremony as Dole lay in state at the United States Capitol. “We meet here in the very heart of American democracy — the Capitol of the United States of

By Oren Liebermann and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN The commander of the US Navy’s SEAL Team 8 died Tuesday from injuries sustained in a training accident in Virginia Beach over the weekend, the Navy said. Cmdr. Brian Bourgeois, 43, died Tuesday at Norfolk Sentara General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, the Navy announced in a statement Wednesday.

By Whitney Wild, Manu Raju, Daniella Diaz and Melanie Zanona, CNN The Longworth House Office Building of the US Capitol complex was put on a shelter-in-place order after a Capitol staffer brought a gun into the building, multiple sources told CNN. United States Capitol Police said in a statement this morning that officers “spotted the