From poverty to power, new California Speaker seeks Democratic caucus unity but offers few details

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas was a child growing up in…

Republicans race to build support for spending bills as divisions loom large | CNN Politics

CNN  —  House Republicans are furiously working through the recess to shore up support on a…

Subpoenas, spending bills and strategy sessions: House GOP plots multi-pronged attack on special counsel probe of Trump | CNN Politics

CNN  —  House Republicans are mounting an all-out campaign to attack the special counsel’s investigation into…

McCarthy and hardliners reach tentative agreement to resume House floor business | CNN Politics

CNN  —  Hardline conservatives have agreed to end their blockade of the House floor while they…

GOP hardliners revolt and derail McCarthy’s agenda in retaliation over speaker’s debt limit deal | CNN Politics

CNN  —  A bloc of Republican hardliners took down the GOP leadership’s efforts on two bills…

Freedom Caucus member says hard-line group ‘failed’ with passage of ‘Democratic’ debt limit bill | CNN Politics

CNN  —  House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Ken Buck criticized the bipartisan debt ceiling deal reached…

Biden signs debt ceiling deal into law, averting historic default | CNN Politics

CNN  —  President Joe Biden signed into law Saturday a bill to suspend the nation’s debt…

Veterans, stalemates and sleepless nights: Inside the White House strategy to strike the debt ceiling deal | CNN Politics

CNN  —  President Joe Biden sat behind the Resolute Desk in his first evening Oval Office…

Biden addresses nation after avoiding catastrophic default: ‘The stakes could not have been higher’ | CNN Politics

Washington CNN  —  President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the Oval Office on Friday evening…

‘You’re wrong’: McCarthy answers his critics as he faces blowback from GOP hardliners | CNN Politics

CNN  —  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in February made a bold prediction about the GOP…