National Politics

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN More than six months after the deadly Capitol insurrection, the final temporary security structure is coming down, but there are still plenty of concerns about how the campus will be protected going forward and if Capitol Police will have the resources they need to bolster security

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The Justice Department said this week that former President Donald Trump’s delusional claims that he’ll be reinstated to the White House could fuel more political violence from his supporters. Trump and some of his allies on the right-wing fringe have pushed the ridiculous theory that he could be reinstated as president

By Kate Sullivan, Brian Fung, Betsy Klein and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday signed a sweeping executive order to promote competition in the US economy, parts of which target a key business strategy used by Silicon Valley companies. The wide-ranging order aims to lower prescription drug prices, ban or limit non-compete agreements

By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden is back on the road, heading to parts of the country disenchanted, disaffected and — perhaps — disbelieving of the benefits of Covid-19 vaccines. Biden has spent several days this summer crisscrossing the southern United States pleading with Americans to get their shots. It remains an open

By Melanie Zanona, CNN A key adviser to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was involved in a behind-the-scenes effort last month to help rehabilitate the reputation of freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, CNN has learned, discreetly facilitating her visit to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum before she issued a public apology for her recent anti-Semitic

By Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN The US is sending 3 million Moderna Covid-19 vaccines to Indonesia on Friday in what will amount to one of the Biden administration’s largest single shipments yet, according to the White House. The Biden administration is also sending 1.5 million Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines to Nepal, 500,000

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Department of Education has canceled a total of $1.5 billion in student loan debt for nearly 92,000 students, who were victims of for-profit college fraud, since President Joe Biden took office. The current administration has been taking steps to address the backlog of more than 100,000 forgiveness claims left over

By Maegan Vazquez and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN Hunter Biden’s artistic debut is sparking ethics concerns for the White House as some critics raise eyebrows over the high-priced pieces and whether they pose a conflict of interest. Sources told CNN the White House was involved in forming an agreement between a SoHo New York Gallery owner,

By Tami Luhby and Daniella Diaz, CNN Low-income people should register for the expanded child tax credit with the Internal Revenue Service so they can receive up to $300 in monthly payments, which start July 15, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday. “It does great things for families who have had to struggle with

By Katie Lobosco, CNN About 9 million people with federal student loans will start getting their bills from a new agency after one of the government’s biggest servicers said Thursday that it will end its contract with the Department of Education in December. The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), which is better known as

By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The number of guns found at airport checkpoints nationwide this year is fast approaching the number caught in all of 2020, officials say, and the uptick is slowing down screening lines as masses of passengers return to air travel. In the first six months of this year, Transportation

By Kyung Lah, CNN Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs wants the state attorney general to investigate whether allies of former President Donald Trump violated state laws by conducting a pressure campaign against county officials in the wake of the November 2020 election. In a Wednesday letter to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, she wrote

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Joe Beare, CNN A federal judge blasted the DC jail Thursday for failing to get evidence to a Capitol riot defendant who has been in jail since January. “I can’t allow someone to sit in prison for this long without access to material,” Judge Randolph Moss said at a hearing, calling

By Erica Orden and Kara Scannell, CNN A federal judge on Thursday sentenced celebrity lawyer turned criminal defendant Michael Avenatti to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort millions of dollars from Nike. Avenatti, who rose to fame as Stormy Daniels‘ lawyer, was convicted in February 2020 of three counts for threatening to publicly

By Dan Merica, CNN A series of Democratic Senate candidates announced substantial fundraising hauls this week, putting each campaign in strong financial positions ahead of races that will be critical to the Biden administration’s goals. Sen. Raphael Warnock will report raising $7 million in the second quarter of 2021, his campaign told CNN on Friday,