National Politics

By Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden spoke with Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday as the President works to secure the West Virginia Democrat’s support for his expansive economic and climate bill he wants passed by the end of the year. “Senator Manchin and President Biden had a productive conversation this afternoon.

By Jasmine Wright and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will announce a new slate of commitments from the private sector to invest in the Northern Triangle, senior White House officials say, marking the administration’s latest attempt to address the root causes of migration from the region by promoting economic opportunity. The

By Edward-Isaac Dovere Democratic governors are facing a messaging conundrum: they say American democracy may hinge on their elections in 2022, but they’re not sure they can get most voters to care. Attempts to meddle with the certification of the Electoral College count and the partisan takeovers of the voting infrastructure don’t seem to be

By Zachary Cohen, Paul LeBlanc and Colin McCullough, CNN Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent an email saying the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro Trump people’ in the lead up to the US Capitol insurrection, according to a new report released by the January 6 committee Sunday night. It

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris blasted press coverage of a personal shopping trip she took during an official visit to France last month as “ridiculous” but avoided questions about recent high-profile staff departures from her office, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Sunday. At the end of her trip to Paris last month,

By Edward-Isaac Dovere Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay until at least after the midterm elections, extending her nearly 20-year run as the House’s top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps, beyond. She is planning to file and run for reelection in her San Francisco district next year — at least for now — in

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a selected list of White House intrusions and security breaches. Facts The White House grounds include 18 acres of land. That and the adjacent 52-acre Ellipse to the south belong to President’s Park, a national park. The Secret Service is in charge of White House security. According to the White House

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Jeff Sessions, former US attorney general and former Republican senator of Alabama. Personal Birth date: December 24, 1946 Birth place: Selma, Alabama Birth name: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III Father: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions Jr., business owner Mother: Abbie (Powe) Sessions Marriage: Mary Blackshear Sessions (1969-present) Children:

By Daniella Diaz and Devan Cole, CNN Democrats are going to do “everything to get” President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act done by Christmas, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday. “We have to get this done, Jake. And Senator (Joe) Manchin is still at the negotiating table,” Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, told CNN’s Jake

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Powerful storms like the ones that tore through parts of the central United States this weekend are the “new normal” in an era of climate change, the top federal emergency management official said on Sunday. Deanne Criswell, the FEMA administrator, said her agency was prepared to bolster resilience in the face

By Daniel Dale A television attack ad from conservative Super PAC Club for Growth Action uses egregiously deceptive editing to build its case that Pat McCrory, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in North Carolina, is a “Trump-hater” and “liberal faker.” Facts First: The attack ad dishonestly sliced and diced remarks McCrory made

By Tami Luhby, CNN When President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats temporarily expanded the child tax credit this spring, they repeatedly touted that it would help cut child poverty nearly in half. But that depended in part on the enhanced credit getting to the neediest of American families — those with incomes so low they

By Sonnet Swire, CNN Former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro has refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents related to the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus, saying the former president ordered him not to, according to a letter Navarro wrote to the subcommittee investigating. Navarro served as one of former President