Politics

By Ella Nilsen and René Marsh, CNN For the first time ever, US scientists at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National…

By Maeve Reston, CNN A few days before Karen Bass was sworn in on Sunday as the first female mayor of Los Angeles, term-limited Democratic Mayor Eric…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office will announce Monday that it is issuing a $2.5 billion loan to help…

By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and MJ Lee, CNN The House and Senate are expected to pass a short-term extension to avert a government shutdown at the…

Sam Fossum and Jack Forrest, CNN President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke on Sunday to discuss Russia’s invasion…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The top US hostage affairs official on Sunday reflected on conducting the prisoner swap that led to Brittney Griner’s…

By Oren Liebermann and Barbara Starr, CNN The US killed two ISIS officials in a helicopter raid early Sunday morning in eastern Syria, US Central…

By Tami Luhby, CNN Buoyed by the steep drop in child poverty last year, a group of Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocates are pushing hard to…

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN Los Angeles city council member Kevin de León is facing renewed scrutiny after a video surfaced online Friday night of him…

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN The strong turnout in Georgia’s runoff election that cemented Democrats’ control of the US Senate is sparking…

By Sonnet Swire, CNN The congressman-elect set to become the first member of Generation Z to serve in Congress said Thursday his rental application…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Mike Pompeo, former US secretary of state and director of the CIA. Personal Birth date:…

By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, Sean Lyngaas and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Russia refused to release Paul Whelan alongside Brittney Griner unless a…

By Katelyn Polantz, Casey Gannon, Hannah Rabinowitz, Lauren Koenig and Kristen Holmes, CNN A federal judge declined to hold former President Donald…

By René Marsh, CNN Big Oil companies have engaged in a “long-running greenwashing campaign” while raking in “record profits at the…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program remains blocked by federal courts for now. But for some borrowers,…

By Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN Americans’ views of the state of the nation have bounced back slightly since earlier this year,…

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as a political independent, she told CNN’s Jake…

By Manu Raju and Melanie Zanona, CNN As a right-wing faction threatens to tank his speakership ambitions, House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy delivered a…

By Katelyn Polantz, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen, CNN The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to hold Donald Trump in…

By Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Pamela Brown, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection is considering…

By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden had already personally informed Cherelle Griner that her wife was being released from…

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Biden administration awarded $36 billion Thursday to prevent cuts to the pensions of roughly 357,000 union workers and…

By Jason Morris and Eric Fiegel, CNN Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is appearing Thursday before an Atlanta-area special grand jury…

By Daniella Diaz, Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House voted to pass legislation on Thursday to protect same-sex and interracial marriage,…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Detained American Paul Whelan expressed his frustration that more has not been done to secure his release in an exclusive…

By Clare Foran, CNN The House voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in national defense funding and…

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…

By Tami Luhby, CNN Even though the Internal Revenue Service has been steadily chipping away at its major backlog of tax filings, millions of…

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…