Category: Politics

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot, previews what to expect from upcoming Congressional hearings. Source: CNN

(CNN)The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said Sunday he thinks the US is engaged in a new cold war with Russia amid high tensions between the nations over Russia’s potential invasion of Ukraine. “I do. I do, because I think (Russia President Vladimir) Putin again smells weakness here,” Rep. Michael McCaul, a…

The White House appears increasingly beset by the extreme nature of the challenges Biden faces at home and abroad, undermined by some of its own strategic decisions and limited by tiny congressional majorities. The administration bet on vaccines ending the pandemic by now, but inoculations became politicized and millions of Americans chose not to get…

(CNN)Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. Almost every American adult (95%) believes he was an important figure in American history in CBS News polling.But it wasn’t always that way. The fact that King is now beloved and has a national holiday commemorating his birthday wasn’t something that obviously…

JUST WATCHEDClyburn on MLK Jr. Day and the ‘White moderate’ in 2022ReplayMore Videos …MUST WATCHHouse Democratic Whip Rep. James Clyburn reflects on Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from a Birmingham jail and how it applies to the United States in 2022 in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper.Source: CNNStories worth watching (16 Videos)Clyburn on MLK…

(CNN)House Majority Whip James Clyburn said he does not think two key pieces of voting rights legislation the Senate will take up this week are dead — yet.”They may be on life support,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “But, you know, John Lewis, others, did not give up after…

(CNN)Everywhere you look on the 2022 political craps table, President Joe Biden and fellow Democrats keep rolling only snake eyes.Polls show voters narrowly favor Republican control of Congress, buttressing history’s warning that the president’s party faces midterm election losses. Twice as many Democrats as Republicans have declined to run again for their House seats.Weighed down…

JUST WATCHEDSurgeon General: ‘The next few weeks will be tough’ReplayMore Videos …MUST WATCHSurgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy tells CNN’s Jake Tapper that a “national peak” of the Omicron wave is still some time away.Source: CNNStories worth watching (16 Videos)Surgeon General: ‘The next few weeks will be tough’Mary Carillo on Djokovic saga: ‘I don’t think he…

(CNN)Europe has a long and bloody history of wars, of borders brutally contested, of nations and empires carving destructive furrows far from home. But a sad harvest of sorrow and loss after the Second World War was followed by decades of relative peace and prosperity, even during a Cold War that did not become hot.…

(CNN)Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said one of his biggest regrets in office was not speaking out “much louder” in March 2020, when former President Donald Trump advised the nation to stay home to slow the fast-spreading coronavirus.DeSantis, a close ally of Trump, said he was involved in the early days of the White House’s pandemic…