The week in 16 headlines
By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, President Joe Biden defended his handling of the situation in Afghanistan as conditions deteriorated rapidly amid…
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DOJ wants three months in jail for Proud Boys leader who burned BLM flag
By Marshall Cohen The Justice Department told a judge on Friday that Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio should get three months in jail for burning a…
Continue Reading Biden picks Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan and Nicholas Burns as top envoy to China
By Jeff Zeleny and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday announced his intention to nominate Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan and…
Continue Reading Biden focuses on ‘getting this job done’ as chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan grows desperate
President Joe Biden speaks about US military evacuations of American citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and vulnerable Afghans as chaos…
Continue Reading Landlords again ask Supreme Court to block Biden administration’s eviction moratorium
By Tierney Sneed, CNN The landlords who are challenging the Biden administration’s eviction moratorium asked the Supreme Court on Friday to…
Continue Reading A Tennessee sheriff’s deputy allegedly assaulted police on January 6. Now he’s behind bars and off the force
By Hannah Rabinowitz and Marshall Cohen A Tennessee man who was a deputy sheriff on January 6 and wore his sheriff’s vest to the US Capitol is…
Continue Reading Military evacuation flight shown in photo packed with Afghans carried a record number of people
By Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US military cargo plane whose hold filled with Afghans evacuating their country captured in a now famous photo flew more…
Continue Reading Chaos and confusion continue outside Kabul airport as people seek to flee
CNN’s Clarissa Ward brings us this report from inside Kabul…
Continue Reading US announces new destinations for evacuees as Kabul airport confusion continues
By Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN Chaotic scenes played out at Kabul airport again on Friday as thousands desperate to leave…
Continue Reading Ron DeSantis leans into mask-mandate fights as Covid cases soar in Florida
By Gregory Krieg, CNN As the number of new coronavirus cases in his state soars, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is betting that an aggressive campaign…
Continue Reading Ron DeSantis leans into mask-mandate fights as Covid cases soar in Florida
CNN’s Don Lemon takes Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to task for falsely saying, again, that masks are ineffective to combat the Covid-19…
Continue Reading Capitol bomb threat suspect charged with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction
By Christina Carrega, Marshall Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department has charged Capitol bomb threat suspect Floyd Ray Roseberry with…
Continue Reading Biden focuses on ‘getting this job done’ as chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan grows desperate
By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday tried to put an optimistic face on the chaotic evacuations taking place at Kabul’s airport…
Continue Reading Biden set to speak on evacuations as situation in Afghanistan grows desperate
CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses the chaos and desperation in Afghanistan after the Taliban’s takeover following the withdrawal of US…
Continue Reading Supreme Court puts brief hold on court order requiring revival of ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy
By Tierney Sneed and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito put a brief hold on a lower court decision requiring the revival of a…
Continue Reading US extends non-essential travel restrictions with Canada and Mexico
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The US is extending non-essential travel restrictions at its land borders with Canada and Mexico through at least September…
Continue Reading Harris heads to Southeast Asia in search of a foreign policy win amid Afghanistan crisis
By Jasmine Wright and Arlette Saenz, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris faces a steep challenge next week when she travels to Singapore and Vietnam, as…
Continue Reading Former Trump official says US ‘pulled the rug out from under the Afghans’
CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports from Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport where thousands are trying to evacuate Afghanistan as the Taliban…
Continue Reading Former Trump official says US ‘pulled the rug out from under the Afghans’
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN A former Trump administration official said Thursday evening that the Biden administration’s decision to stick with the…
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Texas Supreme Court allows school mask mandates to remain in place for now
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Supreme Court has dismissed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott’s request that it…
Continue Reading Man who claimed to have bomb near U.S. Capitol surrenders
WASHINGTON, DC — A man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol surrendered to law enforcement after an hours-long…
Continue Reading Texas Democrats’ effort to freeze voting bill ends
By Dianne Gallagher, CNN Texas House Democrats’ historic quorum break unexpectedly ended Thursday evening when at least three new Democrats…
Continue Reading Education Department eliminates $5.8 billion in student loan debt for some disabled borrowers
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The US Education Department announced Thursday it will cancel $5.8 billion in outstanding student loans for borrowers who are…
Continue Reading Police identify suspect who surrendered after claiming to have a bomb near US Capitol
Capitol Police say 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry drove a truck onto the sidewalk near the Library of Congress, claiming to have a bomb before…
Continue Reading How the Biden administration plans to process the influx of people fleeing Afghanistan
Allyson Reneau, a determined mother of 11 from Oklahoma, took action to evacuate ten members of an all-girls Afghan robotics team amid the ongoing…
Continue Reading Texas Democrats return, end 38-day holdout over voting bill
By PAUL J. WEBER and ACACIA CORONADO Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Some Democrats who left Texas to block a GOP voting bill have ended a…
Continue Reading ‘Women exaggerate the problem of sexism’: Top California recall candidate Larry Elder has a long history of making disparaging remarks about women
In a 1996 radio show ad, Republican California Gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder criticizes racism, sexism, welfare and…
Continue Reading As White House scrambles on Afghanistan, Biden faces some of most dire days of his presidency
By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Jeremy Diamond, CNN Two photographs of President Joe Biden this week neatly illustrated the White…
Continue Reading US holding direct and daily talks with Taliban in effort to ease Biden’s Afghanistan crisis
By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, CNN While the US State Department continues to engage in high-level diplomatic…
Continue Reading US is working directly with Taliban leaders on the ground trying to salvage Biden’s crisis in Afghanistan
CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports on the hurdles Americans and Afghans are facing trying to get to Kabul’s airport as Taliban fighters attempt to block…
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