Politics

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday accepted an invitation to visit Japan in the late spring during his virtual meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, according to a senior administration official. It would be Biden’s first visit as president to Asia, a region he’s vowed to prioritize even as crises with Russia

By Tami Luhby, CNN Marisa Diaz y Diaz doesn’t understand why her order for the free federal home Covid-19 tests isn’t going through. The Uniondale, New York, resident rents a single-family home from a friend. But when she entered her information on covidtests.gov on Tuesday, she got an error message stating that the tests were

By Daniel Dale, CNN Republican Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson, a doctor who formerly served as White House physician to presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, made a sensational claim this past weekend about undocumented immigrants. “In 2022, illegal immigrants will have MORE FREEDOMS and easier access to healthcare and ballot boxes than most Americans… Just

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The Democratic Association of Secretaries of State and its affiliated groups raised $4.5 million last year — a record haul for the group and the latest indication of the heightened interest in once-sleepy down-ballot races for state election chiefs. The fundraising total, shared first with CNN, is three times what the

By Jeremy Herb, Veronica Stracqualursi and Vasco Cotovio, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that any Russian invasion of Ukraine would be “met with a severe and a united response” following his meeting Friday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the latest round of diplomatic talks that Blinken said provided a “clearer path

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A proposal to vaccinate migrants that was a source of tension inside the White House last year is back on the table as the Biden administration tries to change the way the United States deals with migrants at the southern border. In August, when a report on the proposal emerged, top

By Donald Judd and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday urged Congress to pass legislation strengthening research and development and manufacturing for supply chains to address global semiconductor shortages. Semiconductor shortages have been a persistent thorn in the Biden administration’s side. The shortage of the chips — which are essential for the production

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The US will require essential travelers crossing into the United States via land ports of entry and ferry terminals to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and provide proof of vaccination starting Saturday, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The Biden administration in early November opened its borders with Canada and

By Eva McKend, CNN Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing fierce criticism for comments he made this week in response to a question about the concerns of voters of color. Virginia Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin condemned the remark in a letter to the Kentucky Republican, saying, “I am writing today in response to your

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first youth poet laureate, recounted her fears ahead of President Joe Biden’s inauguration in an op-ed published exactly one year later in The New York Times on Thursday. Gorman, now 23, wrote that she was “terrified” and almost declined to be the inaugural poet. She cited the