National Politics

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor issued an unusual statement Wednesday asserting there is no tension on the high court around masking and stressing that Sotomayor did not ask Gorsuch to wear a mask while on the bench. In the rare statement, the justices said

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Dick Cheney, the 46th vice president of the United States. Personal Birth date: January 30, 1941 Birth place: Lincoln, Nebraska Birth name: Richard Bruce Cheney Father: Richard Herbert Cheney, worked for the Department of Agriculture Mother: Marjorie Lorraine (Dickey) Cheney Marriage: Lynne Ann (Vincent) Cheney

By Kara Scannell New York Attorney General Letitia James laid out new, specific details about what her office believes to be “misleading or fraudulent” financial statements from former President Donald Trump’s business empire in a late-night court filing on Tuesday. The new filing seeks to compel the testimony of Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka

By Edward-Isaac Dovere President Joe Biden spotted Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney on the White House campus last June and called out to the House Democratic campaign chair loudly enough for several others to hear: “I really want to talk to you about the races!” he shouted. A week later, at the cherry festival in Traverse

By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Ted Barrett, CNN Senate Democrats suffered a major defeat Wednesday evening in their efforts to pass voting rights legislation — a key issue for the party, which is under pressure to take action ahead of the midterm elections just months away. An attempt by Democrats to change filibuster rules

By Maegan Vazquez, Kate Sullivan and Jeff Zeleny, CNN President Joe Biden laid out his vision for the next chapter of his presidency during a nearly two-hour-long White House news conference on Wednesday, saying he’s prepared to make changes as he faces crises at home and abroad. As he heads into year two in the

By Betsy Klein, Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will announce his intent to nominate four additional ambassadors to key posts, including the United Kingdom, ahead of his Wednesday afternoon news conference. CNN reported in July that Biden would name Jane Hartley, a former US ambassador to France, to be ambassador to

By Kate Sullivan and Sean Lyngaas, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a national security memorandum to bolster cybersecurity for sensitive computer systems used by the Pentagon and US spy agencies amid an array of hacking threats from foreign governments. The White House said the measures would “[raise] the bar for the cybersecurity of

By Lauren Fox, CNN Sen. Mark Kelly, a Democrat facing reelection in Arizona, announced he will back a rules change to pass voting rights legislation, revealing a schism with his fellow Arizonan, Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has remained steadfast in her opposition to such a change. In a lengthy statement, Kelly wrote that “protecting

By Tami Luhby, CNN Peggy Matthews-Forney cannot believe that, unlike private insurers, Medicare is not reimbursing senior citizens for the home Covid-19 tests they buy at retailers. “As a Medicare enrollee, I am enraged,” said the retired industry strategist from Denver, noting that more than three-quarters of Covid-19 deaths in the US are among the

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN Election officials in a rural Georgia county are weighing plans to close all but one polling place ahead of this year’s elections, alarming local voting and civil rights groups. But the deliberations by the Lincoln County elections board have reverberated far beyond this Georgia community of roughly 7,700 northwest of Augusta.

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Everytown for Gun Safety endorsed Democratic Reps. Lucy McBath and Marie Newman on Wednesday over the Democratic incumbents they’re challenging in two pivotal primaries of the 2022 election cycle. Both House lawmakers decided to run in 2022 in different districts than they currently represent due to their states’ redrawn congressional maps.

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration defended the use of a controversial Trump-era policy that’s resulted in the expulsion of more than 1 million migrants at the US-Mexico border during a court hearing Wednesday, arguing that it was necessary to avoid the transmission of Covid-19 in border facilities. The public health authority, known as

By Gabe Cohen, CNN The new government website where people can order free Covid-19 at-home rapid antigen tests is up and running. With just names and addresses, families can go to COVIDtests.gov and request up to four free tests to be delivered to their homes. The website comes online as the Biden administration faces growing

By Ariane de Vogue and Fredreka Schouten, CNN Conservatives on the Supreme Court seemed open Wednesday to Sen. Ted Cruz’s challenges to a federal cap on candidates using political contributions after an election to recoup personal loans they made to their campaigns. A high court ruling in the Texas Republican’s favor could further erode the