But far from the spotlight is a woman who helped make all that happen: Louisa Terrell. As the director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs, Terrell, 53, leads a team that is the president’s collective eyes and ears in Congress. In fact, when we...
The former Democrat is still caucusing with the party in the Senate, so the Democratic caucus still has 51 members. Now, instead of 49 Democrats and two independents within their ranks, the caucus has 48 Democrats and three independents. Sinema’s interests...
CNN —Americans’ views of the state of the nation have bounced back slightly since earlier this year, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, but public perception of the economy remains grim. Nearly half of Americans say they’re financially worse off than t...
“The choice was bringing Brittney Griner home right now, or bringing no one home right now,” one senior administration official said. With winter approaching at the penal colony where Griner was being held, Biden faced a singularly presidential decision. We...
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...
Brittney Griner, a WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist, has been released from Russian detention, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, December 8. She was released in a prisoner swap that involved Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, a source familiar...
CNN —Brittney Griner’s freedom ultimately hinged on the release of a convicted Russian arms dealer whose life story inspired a Hollywood film. On Thursday, a source told CNN that the US basketball star had been released from Russian detention in a prisoner...
Many argued that the party establishment must take a heavier hand in the 2024 election cycle and root out unelectable Republicans even if they’re backed by Trump. Others said the GOP needs to embrace early voting and wholly reject Trump’s demagoguery of mai...
CNN —As White House officials reflected on the final Democratic victory of a history-defying midterm election cycle, one constant has been a sense of validation. Even Democrats, like Warnock, who sought to distance themselves from Biden and his sagging appr...
Since November 2020, Warnock has been the leading vote-getter in four consecutive Georgia Senate elections. But because of state law requiring statewide candidates to get a majority to win a general election, Warnock had to double the feat in both his 2020...
CNN —Donald Trump is 0-for-an awful lot in Georgia since 2016. On Tuesday, Trump’s run of Georgia futility could continue unless Heisman Trophy-winning ex-Georgia running back Herschel Walker can drag the MAGA banner over the line. The Georgia Senate runoff...
Community leaders and political observers say the Black vote has consistently played a pivotal role in high-stakes races for Democrats, including in 2021, when Warnock defeated then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler in a runoff. Black voters likely to cast a ballot are n...
CNN —Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, made his first public appearance on Sunday at the Kennedy Center Honors after being brutally attacked in late October. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and husband Paul Pelosi attend the 45th Kennedy Ce...
Brian Kemp cruised to reelection, while his preferred Senate candidate, Herschel Walker, was forced into a runoff with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock. To understand the Trump impact on Georgia, take a look at the CNN/SSRS poll of the Senate runoff released...
Black voters have made up nearly a third of the early electorate so far, while more than a quarter of voters so far are under 50. Georgians had only five mandatory days of early voting this year, compared with three weeks during the last runoff and for last...
President Joe Biden this week asked DNC leaders to adopt this early state lineup, which strips Iowa of its first-in-the-nation status. The DNC rules panel proposed that the 2024 presidential calendar schedule South Carolina’s primary on February 3, Nevada a...
US President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden greet French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron, as they arrive for a State Dinner at the White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, December 1. Produced by CNN Digital's Photo TeamPresi...
He was appointed by US District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee in Florida who was instructed by the appeals court Thursday to dismiss the case. The 11th Circuit rebuked Cannon for getting involved in the first placeThe appeals court was critical of...
CNN —Most Americans don’t expect Washington to accomplish much in the next two years, a new poll finds. At the same time, another new survey finds a broad public consensus in support of some congressional actions – particularly to lower the costs of prescri...
CNN —A federal judge has ordered former top Trump White House lawyers to provide additional grand jury testimony, rejecting former President Donald Trump’s privilege claims in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation of his effort to overturn the 202...