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Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is cooperating with the Justice Department's criminal investigation into the plots to subvert the 2020 election, a source with knowledge of the discussions confirmed to CNN.

A January 6 rioter accused in the assault of Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick pleaded guilty on Wednesday to disorderly conduct and entering and remaining in a restricted area in connection to the US Capitol attack.

The Senate voted Wednesday to pass a long-awaited bill aimed at boosting US semiconductor production in a bid to increase American competitiveness.

The Department of Justice has reached out to other Trump White House officials regarding the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in addition to two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence, a former administration official told CNN on Wednesday.

Gun manufactures selling assault-style rifles have employed questionable marketing tactics, including appealing to White supremacists, "preying" on the masculinity of young men, and running advertisements that mimic video games, according to an investigation by the Democrat-led House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

House Democrats will not vote on a series of gun and policing bills this week that would have included an assault weapons ban, according to a source familiar with the matter. This comes after the chamber had scheduled these bills in the wake of a wave of mass shootings across the United States.

Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry plans to end his US Senate bid on Wednesday, multiple Democrats tell CNN, just two weeks before Wisconsin's Democratic primary and after spending more than $12 million on his campaign.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday he's "feeling great" and is back to working in person after isolating in the White House and recovering from what has been described as a mild case of Covid-19.

Less than a week after his slow-motion sprint from the US Capitol during the January 6 riot went viral, Josh Hawley isn't sorry -- for any of it.

When President Joe Biden tested positive for Covid last week, the dog stayed with him. The cat went with his wife.

Seized by genuine panic about the prospect of Republicans winning control of Congress and governors' mansions across the country, multiple Democratic leaders and candidates in some of the tightest races are calling on party leaders -- including President Joe Biden -- to focus on calling out Republicans as "extremists."

Human smugglers frequently misrepresent immigration policies and conditions along the US-Mexico border in Facebook and WhatsApp social media posts targeting US-bound migrants, according to a report released Wednesday by a tech transparency group.

A new CNN poll finds 75% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want the party to nominate someone other than President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, a sharp increase from earlier this year.

The Biden administration is working furiously behind the scenes to keep European allies united against Russia as Moscow further cuts its energy supplies to the European Union, prompting panic on both sides of the Atlantic over potentially severe gas shortages heading into winter, US officials say.

The last time Donald Trump delivered a major speech in Washington, DC, from outside the White House it unleashed a vicious mob attack. There was no violence this time, but his searing bombast may have heralded the dawn of a new era of American extremism.

The move by the Justice Department to bring two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence in front of a federal grand jury is the most aggressive public step taken yet by prosecutors investigating the plots to subvert the 2020 election.

Two top House Democrats are calling for the Department of Homeland Security inspector general to recuse himself from the investigation into Secret Service text messages, saying they lost confidence after he failed to inform Congress for months that messages around January 6 may have been erased.

The State Bar of Georgia is investigating two Republican lawyers who signed on to the "fake electors" scheme to subvert the Electoral College in the 2020 presidential election.

After the eight public hearings held by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the American public's views on the state of democracy and the threat posed to it by that event have changed little, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

2022 marks a record high for women running in gubernatorial and Senate races, but the total number of women running for the House of Representatives fell slightly from previous cycles, according to an analysis by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.