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President Joe Biden didn't travel to Capitol Hill on Friday to close the deal, or to rally the troops through a final legislative gantlet.

During her five years working in various roles as a senior aide to Donald and Melania Trump, Stephanie Grisham had perhaps the most intimate vantage point of their time in the White House.

The story of the Democratic Party's progressive insurgency has, over the last five or six years, typically been told from the campaign trail.

Here's the first of a number of stories we'll write between now and the end of the year on the most important element of US politics that most Americans don't spend too much time worrying about: redistricting.

A New York man charged in the grizzly assault of DC Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone will remain in jail while he awaits trail, a federal judge ruled on Friday after an emotional court hearing.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said in a new video Friday that she never asked for "special treatment" from the state for her daughter as she was seeking to become a state-certified real estate appraiser, and that her daughter completed the same requirements as every other applicant seeking that job. But Noem acknowledged that her administration has made changes to a process that she described as "way too difficult."

Nearly 4,000 federal employees are off the job on Friday because Congress failed to extend highway funding, a Transportation Department spokesperson told CNN.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh has tested positive for Covid-19, the Supreme Court said Friday.

President Joe Biden is heading to Capitol Hill on Friday afternoon as congressional Democratic leaders scramble to secure a last-minute deal on a major economic package and find a way to resolve divisions between moderates and progressives that have put passage of the package and a separate bipartisan infrastructure bill in jeopardy.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday denied a request from a group of New York City teachers to block the city's vaccine mandate for public school employees.

The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League on Thursday said he has spoken with Vice President Kamala Harris' office after the vice president's interaction earlier in the week with a student at George Mason University, who criticized the US' funding of Israel and Saudi Arabia while asking Harris a question.

The Justice Department is making changes to improve the way federal agents and prosecutors deal with crime victims and witnesses and to better coordinate with state authorities in the wake of serious errors uncovered in the FBI's handling of sexual abuse allegations against former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar.

An internal review of the Department of Homeland Security intelligence branch revealed an unprepared and ill-trained workforce was thrown into assisting with intelligence collection amid the civil unrest in Portland, Oregon, in summer 2020, contributing to the gathering and dissemination of intelligence on US journalists there.

A federal judge said Friday that he believes the Justice Department hasn't been "even-handed" with President Donald Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, suggesting that they've been treated more harshly than the rioters in last year's racial unrest.

Senior White House officials explored whether the US could unilaterally continue payments should the debt ceiling be breached in mid-October but ultimately concluded it would not be possible to avoid default and economic catastrophe, a person with direct knowledge of the matter tells CNN.

The mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, apologized this week after he said that some residents' decisions to wear the Star of David -- à la Jews who suffered under Nazi-occupied Europe -- to protest a proposed city mask mandate is a "credit" to Jewish people.

A federal judge Friday questioned the controversial enforcement mechanism of Texas' six-week abortion ban and asked whether the law made private citizens "a proxy for the state to insulate the state from the sort of judicial oversight that would exist."

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The White House will convene a 30-country meeting this month to try to ramp up global efforts to address the threat of ransomware to economic and national security, President Joe Biden said in a statement shared exclusively with CNN.

Planned Parenthood clinics have seen dramatic increases in the number of people from Texas going out of state to seek abortions since the Texas six-week abortion ban took effect, the group says.