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President Joe Biden is "optimistic" there is a path forward on a bipartisan budget agreement following his White House meeting with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and other top lawmakers on Tuesday.

President Joe Biden has officially vetoed a resolution that would halt a Commerce Department rule temporarily suspending tariffs on solar panels imported from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam -- writing that passage "of this resolution bets against American innovation."

An IRS whistleblower who claims to have information about alleged mishandling and political interference in the ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden has been removed from the investigation into the president's son, attorneys for the whistleblower have told key congressional lawmakers.

Sarah Hughes, who won an Olympic gold medal for figure skating in the 2002 Winter Olympics, is now leaping into the political world as she starts a bid for Congress.

The damage to a Patriot air defense system following a Russian missile attack near Kyiv on Tuesday morning is minimal, three US officials tell CNN, with one official describing it as "minor" damage.

Philadelphia Democrats on Tuesday will nominate Cherelle Parker to be the city's next mayor, CNN projects, the 100th in its history and the first Black woman to hold the top job.

The Supreme Court has increasingly used emergency orders to shape the law in cases concerning a variety of hot-button issues, a move that has quietly given the court more power over the years, CNN Supreme Court analyst Steve Vladeck says in a new book released Tuesday on the so-called "shadow docket."

Tuesday's primary election in Pennsylvania will give Republican voters the opportunity chose either a candidate for the state Supreme Court supported by the GOP establishment or one who briefly halted the certification of the state's 2020 election results and has the backing of a key Donald Trump ally.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron will win his party's nomination for governor in Tuesday's primary, CNN projects, setting up a highly anticipated clash this fall with Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

Congressional leaders from both parties emerged from their meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House on Tuesday unable to convey how they're on a clear path to raise the nation's borrowing limit and avoid a historic default. And in a sign that Biden will have to be hands-on as debt talks continue, the White House has scrapped part of his upcoming trip abroad.

This month marks two years since Oksana Markarova became Ukraine's ambassador to the US. She was less than a year into her post when Russian leader Vladimir Putin invaded her country last year. "We work literally 24/7," she says of her current role in Washington, "and we will continue working like that until we win."

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing fresh pressure from within his ranks -- including from key allies and top lieutenants -- to launch impeachment proceedings against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, multiple sources tell CNN, putting the speaker in a bind as he tries to show they're taking aggressive action on the border without alienating the party's moderate, so-called majority makers.

Allies of Mike Pence have launched a super PAC in support of the former vice president's 2024 presidential candidacy, sources familiar with the plans told CNN. The organization, Committed to America, brings Pence one step closer to announcing a formal presidential bid that will pit him against his former boss, Donald Trump, for the GOP nomination.

A long-awaited report by Republican-appointed special counsel John Durham failed to find the "crime of the century" that ex-President Donald Trump said targeted him at the center of the Russia investigation. But it delivered him a potential political payoff nonetheless.

Demographic change continued to chip away at the cornerstone of the Republican electoral coalition in 2022, a new analysis of Census data has found.

Special counsel John Durham released his final report on Monday in which he casts doubt about the FBI's decision to launch a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley's financial disclosure report shows the former US ambassador to the United Nations was paid between $100,001 and $1 million each for 12 speaking engagements in 2022 and 2023.

Clinton expressed sympathy for investigators, calling the questions, "really sad," adding, "I get it, you have to go down every rabbit hole."

The Central Intelligence Agency has launched a new effort to capitalize on what US intelligence officials believe is an "unprecedented" opportunity to convince Russians disaffected by the war in Ukraine and life in Russia to share their secrets, posting a slickly produced, cinematic recruitment video online on Monday.

Once seen as ascending toward a presidential campaign with momentum in his favor, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finds himself on the cusp of an announcement that many of his supporters wished was already behind him.