House candidates declare campaigns for districts that don’t exist yet amid redistricting delays
Loretta Smith and Wesley Hunt are members of different parties, separated by both distance and policy.
Biden admin gives senior Saudi visitor red carpet treatment signaling possible warming ties
The Biden administration hosted the most senior Saudi official to arrive in Washington since the White House distanced itself earlier this year from the kingdom and its defacto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a visit that may signal yet another recalibration in the fraught relationship.
Biden to speak on Afghanistan amid US troop withdrawal and Taliban gains
President Joe Biden will receive an update Thursday on the swiftly concluding war in Afghanistan, where a near-complete withdrawal of American troops is coinciding with major Taliban gains.
Lobsters, cruises and scotch: One Cabinet secretary’s push to sell Biden’s agenda
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo won't hesitate to make the hard ask. She wants to make that clear.
More than 2,800 have been wrongly convicted in the US. Lawmakers and advocates want to make sure they’re paid their dues.
John Jerome White was 19 years old when a Georgia judge sentenced him to life plus 40 years in prison for breaking into a 74-year-old woman's home and raping her. Exonerated after DNA testing years later, he walked free in a state that does not have laws on the books to compensate the wrongfully convicted
Fact-checking claims bail reform is driving increase in violent crime
Violent crime in the United States shot up last year as the pandemic raged. Major cities across the country saw a more than 30% jump in homicides as well as increases in aggravated assaults, according to a January report from the National Commission on Covid-19 and Criminal Justice.
Trump-allied lawmaker floats Pennsylvania audit plan that Democrats slam as political ploy
Audit fever is catching on as a Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania announced Wednesday that he is pushing for a so-called forensic audit of the 2020 election.
US to send millions of Covid-19 vaccines to Latin America
The Biden administration is sending millions of Covid-19 vaccines to countries in Latin America this week as part of President Joe Biden's commitment to play a leading role in ending the pandemic across the globe.
Trump allegedly praised Hitler as doing ‘a lot of good things’ new book claims
Then-President Donald Trump allegedly praised Adolf Hitler during a discussion with his White House chief of staff John Kelly in 2018 while on a trip to Paris to commemorate the armistice after World War I, according to excerpts of an upcoming book, obtained by CNN, from Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender.
Federal judge largely faults Air Force for 2017 Texas church shooting
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the negligence of the United States government was mostly responsible for the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent history.