By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Ted Barrett, CNN The Senate on Thursday passed legislation to avert a rail shutdown following a grave warning from President Joe Biden about the economic danger posed by a strike. The House passed the tentative rail agreement on Wednesday. The measure can now be sent to the president to
Continue Reading By Daniella Diaz, CNN Rep. Jim Clyburn, who is the current Democratic whip, was elected by affirmation as assistant leader in the next Congress after Rep. David Cicilline of Rhode Island launched a last-minute bid to run against him Wednesday. Cicilline surprised Democrats with his 11th hour bid, saying in a letter to his colleagues
Continue Reading By Kyle Blaine, CNN An ex-girlfriend of Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, has come forward in The Daily Beast to allege that the former football star was violent and threatening toward her during an incident that took place in 2005. Cheryl Parsa, a Dallas resident, told the news outlet she had a
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee will meet Thursday to discuss how to handle six years of former President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, one day after the panel received access to the records following a protracted legal fight. The committee is planning to be briefed by House general counsel
Continue Reading By Zachary Cohen, CNN A Democratic member of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot told CNN on Thursday that the panel’s work will be released in its entirety later this month so Republicans cannot cherry-pick evidence when they take over the majority. “(Republicans have) been pretty clear they’d like to
Continue Reading By Annie Grayer, CNN GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio is sending a renewed set of requests to four current and former government officials on Thursday, providing a window into how the highest-ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee is zeroing in on his first top targets ahead of the next Congress when he obtains
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Donald Judd, Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday demonstrated a united front in addressing the ongoing war in Ukraine but offered divergent answers over their willingness to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, relaying that they spent much their recent meeting
Continue Reading By Kate Bennett, CNN President Joe Biden hosted French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House on Thursday, using the very first state dinner of his presidency to shore up relations with a key American ally whose friendship has until recently been on the rocks. Sources close to the planning described a super-sized event under
Continue Reading By Maegan Vazquez, Donald Judd, Betsy Klein and Sam Fossum, CNN US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday demonstrated a united front in addressing the ongoing war in Ukraine but offered divergent answers over their willingness to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin, relaying that they spent much their recent meeting
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A second federal appeals court has rejected a Biden administration bid to put on hold a ruling blocking the President’s student debt relief policy. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday night that it would not pause a ruling from a Texas judge striking down the
Continue Reading By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Daniella Diaz, CNN House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy sent a letter to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, on Wednesday demanding that it preserve all records and transcripts and vowing to hold hearings next year on the security failures that led to the US Capitol breach. After
Continue Reading By Devan Cole, CNN The Democratic-led House Ways and Means Committee will meet Thursday to discuss how to handle six years of former President Donald Trump’s federal tax returns, one day after the panel received access to the records following a protracted legal fight. The committee is planning to be briefed by House general counsel
Continue Reading By Marshall Cohen, CNN A federal judge scolded the Justice Department on Wednesday over what he characterized as slow-moving investigations during a hearing for one of GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s former associates, saying the probes have “no end in sight.” The Gaetz associate, former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, has pleaded guilty to underage
Continue Reading By Daniella Diaz, CNN House Democrats chose caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries of New York to succeed Nancy Pelosi as leader of the Democrats in the chamber next year, a historic move that will make him the first Black person to lead one of the two major parties in either chamber of Congress. House Democrats met
Continue Reading By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Department of Homeland Security is projecting between 9,000 to 14,000 migrants may attempt to cross the US southern border a day when a Trump-era border policy ends in late December, more than double the current number of people crossing, according to a source familiar with the projections. Officials are bracing
Continue Reading By Oren Liebermann, Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand and Kylie Atwood, CNN The Biden administration is considering a dramatic expansion in the training the US military provides to Ukrainian forces, including instructing as many as 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers a month at a US base in Germany, according to multiple US officials. If adopted, the proposal
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, CNN A jury’s willingness to convict two leaders of a far-right militia of seditious conspiracy for plotting to forcibly oppose the government is a major vindication of how the Justice Department is approaching its investigation into the efforts to disrupt President Joe Biden’s 2020 win. As the
Continue Reading By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A county in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where paper shortages caused Election Day ballot problems, signed off Wednesday on its midterm results — ending a brief showdown over certifying the election results in a key battleground state. The Board of Elections and Registration in Luzerne County voted 3-2 to certify the election results,
Continue Reading By Ella Nilsen, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday committed to protecting Spirit Mountain and the surrounding area in Nevada, a sacred site for the Fort Mojave and other Native American tribal nations. Biden’s announcement during Wednesday’s White House Tribal Nations Summit is part of an ongoing process to designate the site as a new
Continue Reading By Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN The Justice Department is seeking access to “all” transcripts and other evidence collected in the House January 6, 2021, investigation, Attorney General Merrick Garland said Wednesday. The comments from Garland, in response to a question from CNN’s Evan Perez, nodded to the monthslong effort by the department to
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