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By Arlette Saenz, CNN First lady Dr. Jill Biden will make a two-day, four-state blitz next week as part of the administration’s “Investing in America” tour, offering a preview of how she could be deployed in a possible reelection bid. The first lady will travel to Colorado and Michigan, a key battleground state, on Monday

By Manu Raju, Melanie Zanona and Annie Grayer, CNN House Democrats are delivering a blunt message to the White House: Stop blindsiding us. In two embarrassing episodes in just the past month alone, House Democrats were aghast as they watched the White House send mixed messages to Congress on key issues — and ended up

By Phil Mattingly, Chief White House correspondent As lawmakers, presidential candidates and advocacy groups flooded in-boxes and social media platforms with statements responding to the Manhattan grand jury’s indictment of former President Donald Trump, there was one notable — and intentional — omission. There was no statement from President Joe Biden. The man who defeated

By Ella Nilsen, CNN A bipartisan delegation of Western senators and federal officials will tour key points along the Colorado River next week to see the nation’s depleted reservoirs and the basin’s vast water infrastructure. The trip, which is being organized by Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, comes amid tense state negotiations and looming

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN The Biden White House is calling on federal banking regulators to institute a number of changes intended to provide more oversight on large regional banks and reduce the risk of a future banking crisis. The administration announced its regulatory push on Thursday in response to the recent collapse of two large

By Manu Raju, Chief Congressional Correspondent Speaker Kevin McCarthy and his top lieutenants say they are actively preparing to move a party-line bill to raise the national debt limit if President Joe Biden continues to draw a firm line against talks with House Republicans to avoid the nation’s first-ever default. The move would be a

By Eric Bradner, CNN The Arizona Democratic Party said Thursday it is suing to keep the business-friendly centrist group “No Labels” from being recognized as a political party with the ability to place candidates on the state’s ballot. The lawsuit is an effort to keep a third-party candidate from playing a spoiler role in 2024,

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN A Virginia man convicted of providing support to ISIS in 2015 was sentenced Thursday to serve an additional year in prison for breaking his release conditions after meeting multiple times with John Walker Lindh, the so-called “American Taliban” and sharing ISIS propaganda online in encrypted chats. In 2015, Ali Shukri Amin