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The State Department is imposing new restrictions on travel visas to the United States for members of the Chinese Communist Party, a State Department spokesperson confirmed Thursday. Under the new rules, the travel visas of CCP members and their immediate family members will change from 10 years to one month and will be single entry.

Ivanka Trump, the President’s daughter and adviser, sat for a deposition Tuesday with investigators from the Washington, DC, attorney general’s office as part of its lawsuit alleging the misuse of inaugural funds, according to a court filing. In January, the DC attorney general’s office sued the Trump Organization and Presidential Inaugural Committee alleging they abused

CNN’s Jake Tapper will interview President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Thursday in their first joint interview since winning the election, the network announced Tuesday. Part of the interview will air on CNN’s “The Situation Room” in the 5 and 6 p.m. ET hour on Thursday, and the full interview will air

Georgia Republicans are increasingly worried about President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday for the two Senate runoff races, as some brace for a tirade to overturn his loss that could hurt the party’s effort to keep control of the chamber. The campaigns for Republican Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler recognize that Trump can fire

Stimulus talks are as real as they have been in months right now, with Democratic leaders’ embrace of the bipartisan group’s framework on Wednesday a sign that this could begin a real negotiation. We are not quite there, but things are moving. What’s happening behind the scenes? Leadership aides are still talking to try and

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has invited hundreds of guests to the State Department for holiday receptions in the coming weeks despite warnings from health experts that Americans should avoid large gatherings amid the worsening coronavirus pandemic, according to two State Department officials familiar with the planning. The upcoming events, which will offer refreshments and

Congressional Democrats on Wednesday asked the DC Bar’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel to open an investigation into an attorney for the Trump campaign who had issued a call for violence against a former cybersecurity official who was ousted from his post after he rejected President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. Democratic Reps.

With the clock ticking on Donald Trump’s presidency, a number of associates have appealed to him in recent days in hopes of obtaining pardons before he leaves office in January. While some face imminent legal threats, others are staring down potential legal headaches that a presidential pardon likely won’t alleviate. Among the names that Trump

Census Bureau officials discovered data issues while working through 2020 Census responses, which include several “high complexity” problems and threaten to delay completion of a key tally until February, according to a new set of internal Census documents shared by House Democrats on Wednesday. That delay would mean the Trump administration would be unable to

President Donald Trump is frustrated with Attorney General William Barr after his comments to The Associated Press breaking from the President’s false claims of fraud in the election, two sources tell CNN. The sources — an administration official and a separate adviser — described Trump as “disappointed” in Barr’s initial comments to the AP but

Joe Biden is facing dueling headwinds as he looks to fill out his Cabinet: Senate Republicans want the President-elect to consult with them and choose nominees who could win their support, while liberal Democrats are pushing him to name progressives who could shape the policies of his government. And Republicans, if they keep control of

Democrats picked up a Senate seat on Wednesday when former astronaut Mark Kelly was sworn in as a US senator for Arizona after defeating Republican Sen. Martha McSally last month. While other senators-elect will have to wait until January to be sworn in for the new Congress, Kelly was able to take the oath of

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it will block imports of cotton, reportedly produced with forced labor, from China’s western Xinjiang region. US Customs and Border Protection will detain shipments containing cotton and cotton products originating from the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a major cotton producer in the region, which is home to about

President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to become the next director of the Office of Management and Budget, a key economic post that oversees the production of the president’s proposed budget for his agenda, deleted critical tweets of GOP senators on Twitter, setting the stage for a tough confirmation process. Neera Tanden — a former Clinton campaign

A Georgia election official on Tuesday condemned threats of physical violence and intimidation against election workers and officials, pleading with President Donald Trump to denounce the threats and urging both of the state’s Republican senators to intervene. “It’s all gone too far,” said Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems implementation manager for the Georgia secretary of

President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted the election results in Georgia were rigged while state election officials maintain there’s no evidence of widespread fraud. In an effort to promote the falsehoods, Trump and his allies have continued to call for a signature audit of the absentee ballot envelopes in Georgia, while making false or misleading

The public should expect a “flurry” of pardons before President Donald Trump leaves office, a source close to the White House says, as has happened at the end of previous administrations. This source, familiar with discussions on the matter, told CNN some of the President’s advisers believe that it would be perfectly fine for Trump

The US is temporarily withdrawing some staff from the US Embassy in Baghdad amid concerns of retaliation around the anniversary of the death of a powerful Iranian military commander, according to three sources familiar with the decision. One US official said the drawdown would take place in the lead-up to the January 3 anniversary of

Former President Barack Obama cautioned young activists against using the slogan “defund the police” to achieve changes in policing practices, instead urging them in a new interview to have a more inclusive discussion to better enact changes. In doing so, the former president, who still holds enormous influence in the Democratic Party and has voiced