Politics

By Alex Marquardt, CNN The Biden administration has decided to deny $130 million of military aid allocated for Egypt over the country’s failure to comply with human rights conditions laid out by the State Department, according to a senior State Department official, congressional sources and activists. The rare move against a close ally comes just

By Jen Christensen, CNN Deficiencies at the US Department of Health and Human Services put the department at “high risk” of failing to respond to future public health threats as the department’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic highlighted longstanding concerns, the US Government Accountability Office, the government watchdog agency, said Thursday. The GAO placed the

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A Texas-based judge who has become notorious for his rulings against the Affordable Care Act under the Trump and Obama administrations now has a chance to take another whack at the law. In several different cases spanning the last half-decade, US District Judge Reed O’Connor — an appointee of President George

By Gloria Borger, CNN Chief Political Analyst Recently, ex-President Donald Trump proudly declared, “What’s happening with Russia and Ukraine would never have happened under the Trump administration. Not even a possibility!” That may actually be true. After all, just a couple of years ago, Trump was impeached for trying to use Ukraine to dig up

By Kate Bennett, CNN First lady Jill Biden has revealed the long-awaited Biden family cat. She is a short-haired, two-year-old gray tabby named Willow. The name is inspired by the first lady’s hometown of Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. Biden first met Willow at a campaign stop in 2020, according to information provided by the first lady’s

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Before the Biden administration engages in any fight with the Senate over the President’s choice for the Supreme Court, there will likely be a brawl within. President Joe Biden’s allies are already jockeying for attention to their preferences, as seen in House Majority Whip James

By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN When President Joe Biden visits Pittsburgh on Friday, it will amount to the unofficial launch of a new strategy the President devised to shore up his political fortunes by changing how he spends his time. Never mind that Biden has already held eight events in Pennsylvania since taking

By Phil Mattingly, CNN After months of frustration, White House officials are suddenly looking at a rare opportunity on Capitol Hill — the chance to pass something important with the support of both Democrats and Republicans. A sweeping, roughly $250 billion proposal to bolster US competitiveness with China has moved to the top of their

By Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN The FBI arrested a Nevada man for allegedly making several threatening phone calls to the Nevada Secretary of State’s Office on the morning after the attack on the US Capitol, the Justice Department announced Thursday. This is the second person arrested by DOJ’s Elections Threats Task Force, which was launched

By Tierney Sneed and Ariane de Vogue, CNN Alabama’s bid to pause a court order requiring the state to redraw its congressional map was denied Thursday evening, setting the potential for the Supreme Court to quickly intervene in case. “We discern no basis for a finding that this case is the extraordinary case in which

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter A 5-4 Supreme Court cleared the way on Thursday for the execution of death row inmate Matthew Reeves by lethal injection, reversing a lower court opinion. Reeves was executed at Alabama’s Holman prison less than two hours later. The lower court had agreed to block the execution

By Matthew Chance and Jeremy Herb, CNN A call between US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday “did not go well,” a senior Ukrainian official told CNN, amid disagreements over the “risk levels” of a Russian attack. The White House, however, disputed the official’s account, warning that anonymous sources were “leaking

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A federal judge on Thursday invalidated a massive oil and gas lease sale for 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico after a coalition of environmental groups sued the Biden administration to stop it. The ruling cancels 1.7 million acres of oil and gas leases from that sale, according to