Politics

By Tierney Sneed and Katelyn Polantz, CNN The flurry of lawsuits filed in recent weeks trying to stop the House January 6 committee’s subpoenas are revealing, in many ways, the opposite: That the House has been largely successful at sweeping up documents for the probe and interviewing dozens of major witnesses. A throughline in many

By Oren Liebermann and Nic Robertson, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s virtual meeting with foreign ministers about the Omicron coronavirus variant last week included the ministers from both Saudi Arabia and Israel, a rare instance where the two countries who do not have formal diplomatic relations participated in the same call. A readout

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden urged his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Thursday to take steps to ease an unremitting crisis on Russia’s border with Ukraine, warning again of dire economic consequences should Putin proceed with an invasion. The 50-minute phone call did not yield any major breakthroughs, US and Russian officials said

By Devan Cole, CNN Several lawmakers and members of the law enforcement community tasked with protecting the US Capitol will mark the one-year anniversary of the deadly insurrection there next month during a live event hosted by CNN, the network announced Thursday. “Live from the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later,” will air on January

By Priscilla Alvarez and Dan Berman, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court for permission to end the Trump-era “remain in Mexico” program, which requires non-Mexican migrants to stay in Mexico until their US immigration court dates. In August, a federal judge in Texas ordered the revival of the policy after the

By Oren Liebermann, CNN Oklahoma National Guard members must get vaccinated against Covid-19, a federal judge has ruled, denying a request from the state’s Republican governor and others to halt the military’s vaccine mandate. The ruling Tuesday comes as GOP governors from six other states have also challenged the requirement. Judge Stephen Friot from the

By Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon Correspondent The US Air Force flew a reconnaissance mission this week over eastern Ukraine to gather intelligence about the situation on the ground — two days after Russia announced it would withdraw 10,000 troops from its border with that nation. Monday’s flight was the first time an E-8C Joint Surveillance

By Natasha Bertrand President Joe Biden will hold a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday afternoon “to discuss a range of topics, including upcoming diplomatic engagements with Russia,” National Security Council spokesperson Emily Horne told CNN. The call was requested by Putin, according to an administration official, and Biden accepted because “he believes

By Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby, CNN As Americans enter the third year of the pandemic, they can expect to receive significantly less federal aid. There won’t be any more stimulus checks. Boosted unemployment benefits and guaranteed paid sick leave programs have expired. The last round of expanded child tax credit payments went out earlier

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A Supreme Court that has declined to block several types of vaccine mandates is now considering whether to allow the Biden administration to require millions of Americans to get Covid-19 vaccines. While the court has been tolerant so far of vaccine mandates that have come before it — refusing to halt

By Tierney Sneed, CNN In states like Texas and North Carolina, Republican lawmakers in charge of redrawing the political maps for the next decade say that the new plans are “race blind.” Their opponents in court say that the claim is implausible and one that, in some situations, is at odds with the Voting Rights