Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden may be overseas in the Bavarian Alps, but the political division and sour mood he left behind will be difficult to ignore as he begins this year’s Group of 7 summit. Rising costs — driven in part by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — will be central to

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN The House on Friday passed a bipartisan resolution calling on the Russian government to immediately release WNBA star Brittney Griner. “Not a day goes by that we aren’t thinking of Brittney and working to get her home,” Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona, who sponsored the resolution, said in

By Chandelis Duster and Eva McKend, CNN In 2018, Stacey Abrams came within 1.4 percentage points of clinching the governor’s mansion in Georgia. Her stinging loss to Republican Brian Kemp is still on the hearts of many of her most fervent supporters some four years later. Though Democrats across the country face a difficult midterm

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN The US Supreme Court handed down a bevy of decisions this week that will affect Americans across the country. The rulings from the nation’s highest court range from topics such as gun rights to Miranda rights. The most notable ruling, which overturned Roe v. Wade and upended constitutional protections on abortion,

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN There’s something strange about how Americans see the economy these days — or, at least, how they’re describing it to pollsters. For one thing, there’s a stark partisan divide in responses to even factual economic questions. Take an April CBS News/YouGov poll that found Democrats were not only 41 percentage points

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden arrived in Europe Saturday for a week of summits, where the grinding war in Ukraine — entering its fifth month and fading from Americans’ attention — will be thrust back to the forefront. The President touched down in Germany late Saturday local time. Biden hopes to announce new

By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first major federal gun safety legislation passed in decades, marking a significant bipartisan breakthrough on one of the most contentious policy issues in Washington. “God willing, it’s going to save a lot of lives,” Biden said at the White House as he

By Daniel Dale, CNN A Democratic super PAC has made multiple false claims about Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert while pushing unproven allegations that the right-wing Colorado congresswoman has had abortions and formerly worked as an escort, all of which Boebert vehemently denies. American Muckrakers PAC co-founder David Wheeler acknowledged to CNN that the super PAC

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By Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Kaitlan Collins, CNN When President Joe Biden received word from his chief of staff in the Oval Office on Friday that the Supreme Court had decided to strip away the nationwide right to abortion, he quickly began to execute a plan his advisers had been crafting for months. Top