Politics

By Ella Nilsen, CNN Democrats’ unprecedented climate bill would throw $4 billion to states in the West for drought relief, thanks to last-minute negotiations in the Senate. Southwest lawmakers struck the deal in the 11th hour with hopes that it could buy the fragile Colorado River Basin more time amid its most intense drought in

By Tami Luhby, CNN Congress is poised to make the biggest changes to Medicare in nearly two decades. The Democrats’ health care and climate package, which the House is expected to take up on Friday after the Senate passed it on Sunday, aims to lower drug prices in Medicare, which would save both senior citizens

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The stark video that former President Donald Trump shared on his Truth Social platform this week following the FBI search of his Florida estate had all the makings of a traditional presidential campaign ad. It melded Trump’s words decrying high inflation and a messy US withdrawal from Afghanistan with videos of

By Whitney Wild and Jamie Gangel, CNN The professional association that advocates for federal law enforcement agents warned members of the US Secret Service Tuesday that their personal phone numbers the agency recently released “will likely be used” in a criminal investigation, according to a copy of a letter sent to agents and obtained by

By Maegan Vazquez and Katie Lobosco, CNN With less than three weeks to go until the federal student loan repayment pause expires, millions of borrowers are still in the dark about whether President Joe Biden will extend the current payment moratorium or possibly forgive any of their debts. Borrower balances have effectively been frozen for

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence on Monday was prompted by a tip to investigators about the possibility of additional classified documents at the Palm Beach club, according to a Wall Street Journal report. CNN previously reported that investigators from the FBI and the DOJ met with

By Kate Sullivan, CNN Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday directed the Internal Revenue Service not to use any of the new funding allocated in the Democrats’ new health care and climate bill to increase the chances of Americans making less than $400,000 a year getting audited, according to a copy of the letter obtained

By Tami Luhby, CNN Congress is expected to soon approve a bill that aims to reduce what millions of Medicare enrollees pay for certain prescription drugs. CNN wants to hear from senior citizens currently struggling to afford their medications, as well as from those who don’t yet qualify for Medicare but are looking for help

By Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent Some Justice Department officials believe the department should provide a public statement about the unprecedented search of former President Donald Trump’s home and club in Florida, a view that so far hasn’t changed the silence from the top. Attorney General Merrick Garland has tightly limited the Justice Department’s public

By Tierney Sneed President Joe Biden’s White House has until mid-October to decide if he wants to assert executive privilege and hinder an effort to obtain testimony from former President Donald Trump about Trump’s pressure campaign to get a then-top FBI agent fired. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson set the October 14 deadline at

By Steve Contorno, CNN When Gov. Ron DeSantis abruptly suspended Tampa’s elected prosecutor last week, it was not accomplished in a late-night sacking or buried in a 5 p.m. Friday press release. Rather, DeSantis summoned reporters and cameras for a midday media event, as he does several times a week, stood before officers in uniform

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared that the US government knows “with certainty” that American journalist Austin Tice has been held by the Syrian government and called on Damascus to cooperate on efforts to release him after 10 years of captivity. “We know with certainty that he has been held by

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Marshall Cohen, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US Justice Department announced criminal charges Wednesday against a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for allegedly trying to orchestrate the assassination of John Bolton, who served in senior national security positions during the Trump and Bush administrations. The alleged plot was