CNN Breaking News Feed

President Donald Trump seemed to be a teflon president. It didn't matter how big things seem to get -- Trump's political career seemed to be impermeable. That was until Trump ran into President-elect Joe Biden. Read more »

Video from The Telegraph shows Peter Francis Stager, the man federal prosecutors say beat a DC Metro police officer with the American flag, saying that "death is the only remedy" for the Capitol law enforcement officers. Read more »

Donald Trump may be leaving the White House in a few days, but the umbrella of conspiracy theories he inspired is only just arriving in Washington. Read more »

CNN's presidential historian Douglas Brinkley talks about what President Trump's legacy will be once he leaves office, and how the riots at the US Capitol have affected that legacy. Read more »

The US Capitol is surrounded by fences and troops amid fear the January 6 riots could spark violence this weekend and leading up to Wednesday's inauguration. Read more »

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert's communications director has resigned in the wake of the Capitol insurrection earlier this month, according to a source familiar with the matter. Read more »

The presidency of Donald Trump has left such a wretched stench in Europe that it's hard to see how, even in four years, Joe Biden could possibly get America's most important alliance back on track. Read more »

• LA County records more than 1 million cases • CNN reporter chokes up after reporting from hospital • US death toll nears 400,000 Read more »

• Analysis: Trump's 'pro-law enforcement' image crumbles • Giuliani uses unfounded 'Antifa' argument to defend Trump • MyPillow CEO hints at scrapped plan to replace CIA director with Trump loyalist Read more »

President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign roughly a dozen executive orders, including rejoining the Paris climate accord and ending the travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, on his first day in office, according to a memo from incoming chief of staff Ron Klain. Read more »

CNN's Randi Kaye examines how President Donald Trump's plan to make Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, his permanent residence may violate his 1993 agreement with the town. Read more »

Democratic Rep. Lou Correa of California said Saturday he has tested positive for Covid-19 and will miss President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration while isolating. Read more »

The president of an Atlanta synagogue says its website was the target of a cyberattack during its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Shabbat service with US Sen.-elect Raphael Warnock's Ebenezer Baptist Church. Read more »

Those Hot Pockets in your freezer could contain something more dangerous than piping hot cheese. Read more »

The insurrection at the US Capitol has sparked a political firestorm and unnerved millions of Americans. It has also unleashed a wave of criticism over the role played by pro-Trump media outlets such as Fox News, which fed lies and conspiracy theories about the election to angry supporters of the president for weeks. Read more »