National Politics

By Tami Luhby, CNN Senate Democrats failed to realize their longstanding goal of lowering the price of insulin for the more than 150 million Americans with private health insurance. The party had pushed to include a measure in their climate and health care package that passed the chamber Sunday that would place a $35 cap

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey still remembers the raw anger he felt after the 2009 climate bill bearing his name failed to advance in a Democrat-controlled Senate. “I was full of rage that the climate crisis was not going to be addressed,” he told CNN of the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. “I just

By Alex Rogers, Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Manu Raju, CNN The Senate on Sunday afternoon passed Democrats’ $750 billion health care, tax and climate bill, in a significant victory for President Joe Biden and his party. The final, party-line vote was 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. The package is the

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Justice Stephen Breyer made sure Saturday night to steer clear of any controversy in his first public appearance since he retired and the Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade. Instead, the 83-year-old retired justice spoke broadly about the rule of law and maintained that he

By CNN staff The Democratic-backed bill known as the Inflation Reduction Act would represent the largest climate investment in US history. It would also make major changes to health care policy by giving Medicare the power for the first time to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs and extending expiring health care subsidies for

By Aaron Pellish, CNN A bipartisan pair of senators has called on the Biden administration to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism in response to its invasion of Ukraine, saying they would push Congress to pass a bill issuing the designation “whether or not” it had President Joe Biden‘s support. Democratic Sen. Richard

By Jamie Gangel and Whitney Wild, CNN Personal cell phone numbers of US Secret Service agents have been provided to oversight bodies looking into the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi would not confirm which oversight entities, but stressed USSS is in full cooperation as multiple inquiries are

By Michael Warren At the Conservative Political Action Conference Texas on Saturday, former President Donald Trump overwhelmingly won an unofficial straw poll of attendees who were asked who they preferred as the Republican nominee for president in 2024. “He’s more popular than ever,” said Jim McLaughlin, a pollster for Trump who conducted the straw poll.

By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden was officially cleared to emerge from isolation Sunday after a second negative Covid-19 test, his physician announced. “This morning, the president’s SARS-CoV-2 antigen testing was negative for a second consecutive day,” presidential physician Kevin O’Connor wrote in a letter Sunday. “He will safely return to public engagement and

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN US Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Langley was promoted to the rank of general in a ceremony Saturday, becoming the first Black four-star general in the military branch’s 246-year history. Langley will take command of the US Africa Command, which oversees the nation’s military presence in Africa, in a change of

By Tami Luhby and Ella Nilsen, CNN Democrats’ new party-line tax and clean energy bill is a big deal for climate and energy savings. With nearly $370 billion for energy programs and tax incentives, it represents the largest climate investment in US history. In addition to the US emissions reductions these will bring, there’s a

By Ella Nilsen and Angela Dewan, CNN The Democrats’ $369 billion climate package, the largest such investment in US history, could have significant implications for global greenhouse gas emissions and the US’ standing in the world, after months of uncertainty in Congress undermined the Biden administration’s claims that “America is back.” US officials are hoping

By Kevin Liptak, CNN A fatigued, runny-nosed President Joe Biden entered Covid solitude on July 21 with his legislative agenda stalled, a standoff brewing with the House speaker and an unfinished plan to kill the world’s top terrorist with a drone. More than two weeks later, Biden’s second stint in isolation appears to be ending,