National Politics

By Michael Warren, CNN Senate candidate Sean Parnell’s abrupt end to his campaign in Pennsylvania has shaken up the Republican primary field in a crucial race as the party seeks to win a majority next fall. According to multiple Republican operatives in and outside of the Keystone State, the slate of GOP candidates could expand

By Tierney Sneed Employees of the Massachusetts hospital system Mass General Brigham have asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit they’ve brought challenging their employer’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate. The employees have struck out in their attempts to get a district court or the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals to block the health

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Katherine Rickfelder, a Florida public school teacher, is one of nearly 30,000 people who have seen their student debt balance reduced to zero since the federal government announced significant changes to a popular loan forgiveness program last month. “I cried when I got the letter. I honestly feel like I can

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection issued five new subpoenas on Tuesday targeting right-wing extremist groups that were involved in the attack, including the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. The subpoenas went to the Proud Boys and its leader Enrique Tarrio, as well as the Oath Keepers and its

By Tierney Sneed The Biden administration is asking the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals to wipe away an order from another appeals court blocking its Occupational Safety and Health Administration vaccine mandate. Several lawsuits were brought challenging the OSHA mandate, and last week the cases were consolidated in the 6th Circuit, an appeals court

By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden wants half the vehicles sold in the US to be electric vehicles or plug-in hybrids by 2030. But to reach that goal, not only do Americans need to start buying more electric vehicles, they need more charging stations to plug them into. EVs and plug-in hybrids accounted for

By Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein and Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced the release of emergency oil reserves to combat high energy prices ahead of the busy holiday travel season, but it will be weeks before the barrels hit the market. The Department of Energy will release 50 million barrels of oil

By Gregory Krieg, CNN More than three months after he resigned in disgrace, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo exists in political limbo — not completely written off as a spent force, but sidelined as the campaign to replace him heats up. Cuomo, who for a decade ran the Empire State and its Democratic Party

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Bidens are expected this week to revive a longstanding Thanksgiving family tradition that goes back to 1975, opting to spend this year’s dinner in Nantucket, Massachusetts. In his 2017 memoir, ” Promise Me, Dad,” Biden wrote that Thanksgiving was the first holiday he and his now-wife Jill spent together. The

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN An Indiana man charged with carrying a loaded firearm onto the US Capitol grounds and assaulting police officers during the January 6 riot told investigators that if he had visited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that day, “you’d be here for another reason,” according to recently unsealed court documents.