Politics

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN Voters will decide Tuesday on key issues that could have national implications related to policing, election reform and some proposals authored in response to Covid-19 restrictions. During this off-election year, a combined 24 statewide ballot measures are up for consideration in six states — Colorado, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Texas

By Jasmine Wright, CNN Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday the administration will “continue pushing for” paid family and medical leave after the policy was gutted from President Joe Biden’s sweeping economic package due to opposition from a key swing vote in the Senate. “Look, it’s something that we believe in, I believe in it.

By Jasmine Wright Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said the US will keep seeing supply chain issues as the holiday season approaches, adding that it takes more than just federal efforts to tackle shortages and bottleneck issues. “We are going to continue to see challenges. The steps that we’re taking are making a difference but think

By Chandelis Duster and Daniella Diaz, CNN All 50 Democrats in the Senate need to agree upon the framework on the massive economic bill before the House votes on the bill this week, Senate Budget Chairman Bernie Sanders said Sunday. “I think there has got to be a framework agreed upon in the Senate that

By Devan Cole, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that “about 340” Americans have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the US formally exited from the country in late August. “Since August 31, as of today, we’ve gotten out — of the Americans left who said that they wanted to leave — about 340,”

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Sunday touted a new agreement reached with the European Union to ease Trump-era tariffs on aluminum and steel as a “major breakthrough” that would serve to both strengthen the US steel industry and combat the global climate crisis. “The United States and the European Union have reached a

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Condoleezza Rice, former US secretary of state. Personal Birth date: November 14, 1954 Birth place: Birmingham, Alabama Birth name: Condoleezza Rice Father: John Wesley Rice Jr., minister and dean Mother: Angelena (Ray) Rice, a high school teacher Education: University of Denver, B. A., 1974; University

By Maeve Reston, CNN Voters head to the polls to cast ballots for mayor in key American cities on Tuesday. Divisions that have played out in Washington between moderate and progressive Democrats are also very much alive in these races in predominantly Democratic cities as the party tries to chart its future. Overhauling policing procedures

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Since the challenge to a Texas abortion ban first reached the Supreme Court two months ago, the justices have conferred only in private over the law that flouts nearly a half century of abortion-rights rulings. On Monday the internal debate goes public, as the nine

By Maegan Vazquez, Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden told reporters during his first news conference in months that he was encouraged by how he was received at this weekend’s Group of 20 Leadership Summit in Rome, dismissing concerns that allies might not take solace in his pledge to turn the page

By Kevin Liptak, CNN When the leaders of the Group of 20 assembled for their family photo here on a blue-carpeted riser, there were a few unfamiliar faces among the most powerful people on the planet. Standing in for the absent heads of China, Russia, Japan and Mexico were lower-level ministers dispatched in their places,