Politics

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House will keep its mask mandate in place on its grounds even as Washington, DC, lifts its indoor mask requirement starting Monday, a contrast that highlights the uneven messaging many Americans are receiving on Covid-19. The nation’s capital remains an area with “substantial” community transmission, according to the US

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Vermont Rep. Peter Welch announced Monday he would run for the US Senate seat held by fellow Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy, who announced last week he would not seek reelection in 2022. “We are at a pivotal moment,” Welch said in a statement. “Vermont families are struggling through multiple crises: a

By Kara Scannell, CNN Michael Cohen is a free man. On Monday morning Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and self-described fixer was officially released from his three-year prison sentence — the past year-plus of it served from his posh Park Avenue apartment. Speaking outside of the federal courthouse in New York, Cohen said he received

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN President Joe Biden on Monday mourned the lives lost in a deadly incident at a Wisconsin holiday parade, calling the violence a tragedy that has left a community struggling to understand what has happened. At least five are dead and 40 others injured after a man drove his vehicle through the

By Liam Reilly and Devan Cole, CNN Senate Democrats will try to negotiate with moderate Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to address their disagreements on the size and scope of President Joe Biden’s economic package as it heads to the chamber, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday. “The House did a very strong

By Aaron Pellish Republican Virginia Lt. Gov.-elect Winsome Sears on Sunday refused to say whether she’d received the Covid-19 vaccine while repeating a series of falsehoods and misconceptions about the vaccines and infections. Sears, who did not reveal her vaccination status during her successful campaign for the second-highest seat in Virginia, told CNN’s Dana Bash

By Donald Judd, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Sunday tried to tamp down the idea that he and Vice President Kamala Harris are starting to quietly compete to be the future standard-bearer of the Democratic Party, saying their focuses are on their roles in the nearly year-old Biden administration. The comments from Buttigieg, who

By Chandelis Duster, CNN Winsome Sears, Virginia’s lieutenant governor-elect, expressed the importance of rural broadband access and her concerns over how funds allocated for broadband access in the newly signed infrastructure law would help Virginians, especially in the southwestern part of the state. “Well, it depends on what else comes with it. … Do we

By Aaron Pellish Beto O’Rourke, who announced his campaign for Texas governor last week, declined to invite President Joe Biden to campaign alongside him, pushing a message of nonpartisan unity in his upcoming bid for the highest office in Texas. O’Rourke said his campaign is “not going to be about anyone from outside of our

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Jamie Ritter can’t connect to the internet from his home in Denmark, Maine, which is at the end of a road, down a dirt driveway and too far away from existing infrastructure. He’s been shepherding a community effort to bring broadband to Maine’s lake region for more than a year. The

By Josh Campbell An Arizona man has been found guilty by a jury of communicating an interstate threat to kill or harm House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Justice Department announced Friday. According to federal prosecutors, Steven Arthur Martis, 77, of Bullhead City, Arizona, called the California Democrat’s office on January 17, 2021, and left two

By Daniel Dale and Tara Subramaniam, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy gave the longest House floor speech in US history on Thursday night and Friday morning — an 8-hour, 32-minute address that delayed the passage of a $1.9 trillion Democratic bill to expand the social safety net and fight the climate crisis. The House