National Politics

By Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh, CNN The slow-moving oil spill off the coast of Orange County, California, this week has reinvigorated federal and state lawmakers’ efforts to end offshore drilling. California Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced the West Coast Ocean Protection Act in the Senate earlier this year, which would permanently ban oil and gas

By Eva McKend, CNN Back in 2013, Terry McAuliffe won a majority of Black voters when he sought — and ultimately won — the top office in Virginia. As he vies for a second term as the Commonwealth’s governor, he wants to do it again. With less than a month to go in the election,

By Paula Reid A lawyer for Joel Greenberg, the former Florida tax collector with close ties to Rep. Matt Gaetz, has asked a federal judge to delay his federal sentencing for the second time while he continues to cooperate with the federal government. Greenberg is currently scheduled to be sentenced on November 18 after a

By Ali Zaslav and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer warned on Tuesday that action must be taken soon to avert a debt limit crisis, saying in a floor speech, “it’s not too late, but it’s getting dangerously close,” as a key deadline looms on October 18. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned

By Whitney Wild, CNN US Capitol Police on Tuesday took into custody a suspect from a “suspicious vehicle” parked near the Supreme Court after giving the person commands and using a flash bang device. They said in a news conference Tuesday afternoon they don’t know what motivated the man who they identified as Dale Paul

By Kate Sullivan, Betsy Klein, Jason Hoffman and Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden traveled to mid-Michigan on Tuesday as he looks to regain momentum on his twin economic packages, which remain stalled on Capitol Hill because of sharp divisions within his own party about the size and scope of the plans. During a speech

By Jessica Schneider and Chandelis Duster, CNN Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Tuesday that new information has emerged concerning two former FBI agents accused of mishandling the investigation into allegations of abuse against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. “I can inform the committee today that the recently confirmed Assistant AG for the criminal

By Devan Cole, CNN A bipartisan group of former public officials and lawyers are urging the California bar association to investigate a conservative lawyer who reportedly tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6. In a letter sent Monday by more than two dozen people —

By Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, CNN Secretary of State Tony Blinken met with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and French President Emmanuel Macon in Paris Tuesday amid tensions between the two countries that — at least once in a TV interview — boiled to the surface. A senior State Department official described Blinken’s

By Kate Bennett and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Donald Trump’s former press secretary admitted Tuesday that she didn’t vote for him in the 2020 election, when she was still working in the East Wing for former first lady Melania Trump. Stephanie Grisham, who worked as East Wing communications director, White House press secretary and chief

By Tami Luhby, CNN Medicaid expansion has finally begun in Missouri, nearly five months after Republican Gov. Mike Parson unsuccessfully tried to block it. Roughly 275,000 low-income adults in the state are now eligible for coverage. MO HealthNet, the state’s Medicaid program, has already received more than 17,000 applications since the sign up process started

By Melanie Zanona and Lauren Fox, CNN Republicans don’t want the nation to default on its debts and they support more funding for roads and bridges. Yet they’re fully prepared to oppose bills that would achieve both those goals. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is doubling down on his months-long threats to block any efforts

By Devan Cole, CNN Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday reflected on the Supreme Court’s return to in-person oral arguments earlier that day, saying he prefers the high court’s usual structure over the virtual system the nine jurists had started using just after the Covid-19 pandemic paralyzed much of the country last year. In a wide-ranging

By Whitney Wild, CNN Members of Capitol Hill security will be able to file whistleblower complaints about potential wrongdoing directly to a congressional committee, Rep. Rodney Davis announced on Monday. The Illinois Republican serves as the ranking member of the Committee on House Administration, one of four that oversee the US Capitol Police and one