Politics

By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is considering criminal referrals for at least four individuals in addition to former President Donald Trump, multiple sources told CNN. The panel is weighing criminal referrals for former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, right

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen, CNN The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to hold Donald Trump in contempt of court for failing to comply with a subpoena issued this summer ordering the former president to turn over records marked classified, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden had already personally informed Cherelle Griner that her wife was being released from Russian detention when aides arrived with more news: Brittney Griner was now securely out of Russia — and on the telephone. “It’s Joe Biden,” the president said when the call was patched

By Kaitlan Collins, Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN Former President Donald Trump does not plan to appeal to the Supreme Court a lower court order that put an end to the special master review of documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. Last week, a federal

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Biden administration awarded $36 billion Thursday to prevent cuts to the pensions of roughly 357,000 union workers and retirees. It’s the largest federal award of its kind, according to the White House. The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan, a federal pandemic aid package passed by Congress in 2021

By Jason Morris and Eric Fiegel, CNN Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is appearing Thursday before an Atlanta-area special grand jury probing efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. CNN spotted Flynn, who was escorted by a small entourage, walk up the stairs of the

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Detained American Paul Whelan expressed his frustration that more has not been done to secure his release in an exclusive CNN interview hours after another detained American, Brittney Griner, was freed. Whelan said he was happy that Griner was released, but told CNN, “I am greatly disappointed that more has not

By Clare Foran, CNN The House voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and rescind the US military’s Covid vaccine mandate. The measure passed with wide bipartisan support with a tally of 350 to 80. House lawmakers approved a final negotiated version of the National Defense

By Ali Zaslav, Ted Barrett and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer was reelected by his caucus Thursday to lead Democrats for a second term. It happened during a private meeting in the Capitol as the caucus also chose to keep most of the rest of existing leadership team intact, in the wake

By Tami Luhby, CNN Even though the Internal Revenue Service has been steadily chipping away at its major backlog of tax filings, millions of individuals and businesses are still waiting for their tax returns to be fully processed and their refunds to be sent. Dealing with this mountain of paperwork, as well as deploying the

By MJ Lee and Phil Mattingly, CNN With the midterm elections in the rearview mirror, President Joe Biden and top White House officials now face a government funding deadline — all as House Republicans are promising to deliver partisan warfare in the next Congress with their new majority. And the clock is ticking. With a

By Daniella Diaz, Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House voted to pass legislation on Thursday to protect same-sex and interracial marriage, the last step before the measure goes to President Joe Biden for his signature and becomes law. The House vote was 258 to 169 with 39 Republicans joining the Democrats voting in