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How Joe Manchin speaks for a lot of Americans

West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is increasingly drawing the ire of progressive Democrats. With the slimmest of majorities in the Senate, Democrats need every vote and Manchin's unwillingness to bend on issues such as filibuster reform is getting in the way of the party's legislative priorities.

New book suggests Birx wanted Trump to lose presidential election

A new book written by one of President Joe Biden's top coronavirus advisers suggests Dr. Deborah Birx hoped former President Donald Trump would lose the 2020 presidential election.

China looms large in G7 talks, Trudeau-Biden dialogue

News/Politics: Conversations between leaders of Group of Seven countries at this weekend's meeting in the U.K. focused significantly on how to approach China.

Canada's vaccine contracts allow for doses to be donated, in some cases resold

News/Politics: Heavily redacted vaccine contract documents released Friday by the federal government show some doses procured by Canada could be donated or even resold.

Pennsylvania election reform bill mandates voter ID but faces stern opposition

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are pushing their own version of sweeping election security bills that led to massive controversy in other states, but the legislation is unlikely to become law with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf staunchly opposed to such reforms.

Ilhan Omar's long history of controversial statements

Omar has said and tweeted many controversial statements that have gotten people on both sides of the aisle riled up.

Mexico's López Obrador says he called Harris 'president' after meetings on migration

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this week that in-person meetings on the migration crisis with Vice President Kamala Harris went so well that he called her “president.”

Analysis: Trump is doing more lying about the election than talking about any other subject

Since his presidency ended, Donald Trump has issued more statements lying about the 2020 election than statements talking about any other subject.

Texas, Arizona govs calling for states to send police to the border to help deal with border crisis

The governors of Texas and Arizona are calling on their counterparts in other states to send law enforcement to the border to help stem the crisis at the southern border that has overwhelmed officials and border states.

Biden causes sighs of relief among world leaders even as G7 divisions linger

When President Donald Trump used his elbows at international summits, it was to throw them -- on trade, on Russia and, once, they helped him remove the Montenegrin prime minister from his path to a photo-op.

Macron says Biden is 'part of the club' at the G7 in leaders' first formal meeting

US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron held their first formal in-person meeting on Saturday, touching on the coronavirus pandemic, NATO and climate change.

Biden will hold solo press conference after Putin meeting

President Biden will hold a solo press conference in Switzerland after his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this week, the White House said Saturday morning.

More than 300,000 J&J COVID-19 vaccine doses won't be released in Canada

News/Politics: Health Canada made the announcement Friday, citing possible contamination at a Baltimore facility.

How Trump's tariffs haunt Kentucky's whiskey distillers: 'We're still on death row'

Dozens of cases of whiskey sit on the ground floor of the James E. Pepper Distillery in Lexington, Kentucky, ready to be shipped -- but, because President Joe Biden hasn't moved to end trade disputes started under former President Donald Trump, none of it will be going to thirsty customers overseas.

On this day in 1967: Loving v. Virginia and interracial marriage

Editor's note: This story was originally published for CNN on April 13, 2017.

Biden at the G7 summit

Analysis: Most blue states will make Biden's July 4 vaccine goal. The red ones won't.

The United States looks increasingly unlikely to reach President Joe Biden's July 4 vaccine goal. We need at least 70% of all adults to have one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, and we're on pace to have somewhere between 67% and 68%.

Cheney challenger says he's surpassed $500K fundraising in bid to unseat ousted GOP conference chair

Wyoming state Sen. Anthony Bouchard, a Republican who's challenging Rep. Liz Cheney for her House seat after she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump, told Fox News that he's raised more than $500,00 so far in his campaign.

Biden aims to counter China's global infrastructure project with new G7 initiative

The United States says it will be a lead partner in a new global, climate-friendly infrastructure program with its Group of 7 partners, part of President Joe Biden's larger efforts at the G7 summit to better position the US and its allies to compete with China in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

Loudon County tees up anti-critical race theory rally

Critics of critical race theory planned an “Education, Not Indoctrination” rally for Saturday morning in a Virginia community that has become a flashpoint over the controversial ideology amid a national debate over whether it belongs in public schools.