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Then-Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy talks to reporters inside the US Capitol on October 2.

House business is on ice without speaker

CNN By Annie Grayer, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — Lawmakers and aides arrived for work on Wednesday to find a House of Representatives stuck in freeze-frame, a giant blue screen declaring them “in recess” almost the entire day. The House calendar remained officially stuck on October 3 – Tuesday – the date when House Speaker

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Biden says border walls don’t work as administration bypasses laws to build more barriers in South Texas

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Joe Biden said Thursday that he doesn’t believe border walls work, even as his administration said it will waive 26 laws to build additional border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley amid heightened political pressure over migration. According to a notice posted to the Federal Register Wednesday,

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Trump campaign announces raising more than $45.5 million in third quarter

By Fredreka Schouten and Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign said Wednesday that the Republican presidential frontrunner raised more than $45.5 million for his political operation during the third quarter of this year, improving his haul over the previous three-month period. His campaign credited “overwhelming grassroots” support for the sums raised

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US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden

Bidens’ dog, Commander, involved in more White House biting incidents than previously reported

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden’s 2-year-old German shepherd, Commander, has been involved in more biting incidents than previously reported at the White House, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN. While the US Secret Service has acknowledged 11 reported biting incidents involving its personnel,

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Biden searches for ways to keep aid flowing to Ukraine with only weeks remaining before funding runs out

By Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee, Alex Marquardt and Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) — Senior Biden administration officials privately believe only weeks remain before a lack of additional Ukraine funding starts to become a serious battlefield concern – a scenario they are trying to avoid with public warnings and a major speech from President Joe Biden

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Prosecutors propose website to notify victims whose tax returns were stolen along with Trump’s

By Holmes Lybrand and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN (CNN) — The ex-IRS contractor accused of leaking former President Donald Trump’s tax returns disclosed so many people’s tax information that prosecutors want to notify the thousands of victims through a public website, according to a court filing Wednesday. Charles Littlejohn, of Washington, DC, is accused of stealing

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White House strikes business-as-usual tone after McCarthy’s ouster as Biden campaign highlights GOP disarray

By Kayla Tausche, Arlette Saenz and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden is expected to strike a “business as usual” tone in the wake of Kevin McCarthy’s unprecedented fall as House speaker, according to two officials, while the Democrat’s campaign is using social media to highlight the GOP’s disarray. It underscores the dueling

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Victim who claims she was sexually assaulted at CIA headquarters sues spy agency accusing it of intimidation

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN (CNN) — An unnamed female CIA trainee who claims she was sexually assaulted in a stairwell at CIA headquarters in 2022 is suing the agency, claiming that the CIA “repeatedly and improperly” discouraged her from lodging a criminal complaint against her assailant and attempted to intimidate her from testifying at

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