Politics

By Phil Mattingly, CNN Steve Ricchetti never stopped talking to Joe Manchin. Even as the negotiations over President Joe Biden’s cornerstone economic and climate legislation came to be defined by high-profile meltdowns, there was simply too much at stake to allow a rupture in the relationship with the West Virginia senator. The day after Manchin

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN The Senate Judiciary Committee will investigate claims made by former US Attorney Geoffrey Berman in his forthcoming book that Trump-era officials in the Justice Department pressured his office to “aid them politically.” “Throughout my tenure as U.S. attorney,” Berman writes in the book according to The New York Times, which

By Ellie Kaufman and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Iran has taken “a step backward” with its latest response to a nuclear deal proposal, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, calling a near-term agreement “unlikely.” “What we’ve seen over the last week or so in Iran’s response to the proposal put forward by the European

By Gabby Orr, Kristen Holmes, Sara Murray, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez, Katelyn Polantz and Zachary Cohen, CNN Top officials from Donald Trump‘s political fundraising and former campaign operation are among dozens of people in the former President’s orbit who received grand jury subpoenas in recent days — as the Justice Department intensifies its criminal investigation

By Annie Grayer, Jamie Gangel, Zachary Cohen, Gloria Borger and Sara Murray, CNN As the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack nears its final chapter, members plan to meet in person on Tuesday and one of the most pressing questions they’ll address is whether the committee should formally request that former President

By Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden and members of his Cabinet have been in touch with the unions and companies involved in the high-stakes freight-rail labor negotiations, as alarm about a possible strike continues to grow inside the administration. Top White House officials have been closely watching US freight rail labor negotiations, keenly aware

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A Texas woman who allegedly left a series of threatening messages on the voicemail of a federal judge overseeing one of former President Donald Trump’s legal fights in Florida was arrested last week, according to court documents. Tiffani Shea Gish, of Houston, left three voicemails for Aileen Cannon, a federal judge

By Katelyn Polantz and Sara Murray, CNN The Justice Department said it is open to a judge appointing one of the candidates that former President Donald Trump’s legal team put forward as a special master to review the documents seized from Mar-a-Lago, according to a court filing Monday evening. DOJ said senior Judge Raymond Dearie

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Americans are beginning to learn how funds from the bipartisan infrastructure package passed by Congress late last year will help improve their roads, bridges and airports. Billions of dollars in federal funds have been awarded to specific infrastructure projects and doled out to states across the country over the past 10

By Clare Foran, Kristin Wilson and Annie Grayer, CNN The House of Representatives will return to work in Washington this week following the August recess with a government shutdown deadline looming at the end of the month and the midterms — where a major fight is underway for control of the chamber — fast approaching

By Natasha Bertrand, Katie Bo Lillis and Phil Mattingly, CNN When President Joe Biden convened nearly a dozen Western leaders by private video conference on Thursday to discuss the war in Ukraine, he was intent upon delivering a key message, sources say: to stay unified in punishing Russia, even as the Kremlin tries to weaponize

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election loss that he would remain in the White House rather than let incoming President Joe Biden take over, according to reporting provided to CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. “I’m just