TSA to extend transportation mask mandate into January
By Gregory Wallace The Transportation Security Administration will extend its US federal transportation mask mandate through January 18, according to…
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Pete Buttigieg and husband Chasten have become parents
By Devan Cole, CNN Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten have become first-time parents, the transportation secretary announced on Tuesday.…
Continue Reading Fact check: Sen. John Cornyn falsely claims there are ‘30,000’ US troops in Taiwan
By Holmes Lybrand, CNN President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has been widely criticized across the political spectrum,…
Continue Reading Biden’s national security adviser says Taliban committed to allowing safe passage for civilians looking to escape Afghanistan
By Maegan Vazquez, Ellie Kaufman and Mike Conte, CNN White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Tuesday said the Taliban has committed to…
Continue Reading Biden’s national security adviser defends chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal
Former US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper reacts to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and discusses decisions made by his former boss President…
Continue Reading GOP-led Colorado county board rejects appointment of new official to supervise elections
By Paul P. Murphy and Fredreka Schouten, CNN Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of appointing a new…
Continue Reading An incoherent strategy doomed the 20-year US mission in Afghanistan, watchdog says as US withdraws
CNN’s John Avlon analyzes the finger-pointing among political parties after Afghanistan fell to the…
Continue Reading Former Nevada attorney general Adam Laxalt launches Senate campaign
By Alex Rogers, CNN Former Nevada state Attorney General Adam Laxalt launched his campaign for US Senate on Tuesday, comparing his campaign against…
Continue Reading House Democrats face major divisions over infrastructure strategy
By Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is signaling that she won’t be backed into a corner next week by moderates in her…
Continue Reading US to ship first of the 500 million Pfizer doses Biden pledged to donate globally
By Kate Sullivan, CNN The Biden administration on Tuesday is shipping the first of the 500 million Covid-19 doses that President Joe Biden pledged to…
Continue Reading An incoherent strategy doomed the 20-year US mission in Afghanistan, watchdog says as US withdraws
CNN’s Clarissa Ward, reporting live from Kabul, presses Pentagon press secretary John Kirby on whether the US allies still on the ground in…
Continue Reading An incoherent strategy doomed the 20-year US mission in Afghanistan, watchdog says as US withdraws
By Oren Liebermann and Ellie Kaufman, CNN An incoherent strategy to rebuild Afghanistan, flush with resources but lacking cohesive leadership and a…
Continue Reading Some US Capitol rioters stay defiant, even while pleading guilty
As some Republicans downplay or excuse the Capitol riot, some federal judges are taking a firmer stance, calling the riot an attempt to “subvert…
Continue Reading Some US Capitol rioters stay defiant, even while pleading guilty
By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz Boyd Camper was set to join the ranks of those pleading guilty in the January 6 insurrection when the federal…
Continue Reading Biden administration reverts to internal blame-shifting amid Afghanistan chaos
Warning: This video contains disturbing images. Video shows people clinging to the fuselage of a US military aircraft as it taxied at Hamid Karzai…
Continue Reading Biden administration embroiled in internal blame-shifting amid Afghanistan chaos
By Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, Oren Liebermann and Nicole Gaouette, CNN Factions within the Biden administration are embroiled in a blame game…
Continue Reading Biden stands behind decision to leave Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, DC — A defiant President Joe Biden rejected blame for chaotic scenes of Afghans clinging to U.S. military planes in Kabul in a…
Continue Reading Biden administration expected to advise Covid booster shots for most Americans
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN Top health officials in the Biden administration are coalescing around an agreement that most Americans should get Covid…
Continue Reading Biden administration expected to advise Covid booster shots for most Americans
COVID-19 cases rising as kids head back to…
Continue Reading Volunteers solicited from DHS immigration agency for Afghanistan support
By Geneva Sands, CNN The Biden administration asked federal employees from US Citizenship and Immigration Services to volunteer for assignments to…
Continue Reading Inside Biden’s defiant Afghanistan response
CNN’s Brianna Keilar presses deputy national security adviser Jonathan Finer on when the nation can expect to hear from President Biden following…
Continue Reading Inside Biden’s defiant Afghanistan response
By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny and Kaitlan Collins, CNN By the time images of desperate Afghans clinging to American warplanes began emerging from…
Continue Reading ‘We are all living with fear’: Afghans who worked with US desperate to leave as Kabul falls
By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Mike Conte and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Now that the Taliban are in control of Kabul, Ismail is afraid to leave his…
Continue Reading No foul play suspected in death of paratrooper found in his Fort Bragg barracks room
By Rebekah Riess, CNN No foul play is suspected in the death of an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper who was found unresponsive in his barracks room…
Continue Reading Democrats grapple with Afghanistan fallout after Biden administration ignored their previous warnings
By Lauren Fox, Jeremy Herb and Annie Grayer, CNN Democrats on Capitol Hill are grappling with the political fallout in Washington of a crisis they…
Continue Reading Biden admits Afghanistan’s collapse ‘did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated’
President Joe Biden acknowledged the “many missteps” made in Afghanistan over two decades of US military presence and took some responsibility for…
Continue Reading Biden returns to White House ahead of address on Afghanistan
CNN’s Jim Sciutto reacts after President Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan calls the withdrawal from Afghanistan a “successful…
Continue Reading Exclusive: Title, cover and details of new Trump book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa revealed
CNN’s Jamie Gangel previews a new book from journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa detailing the final days of Trump’s presidency and the…
Continue Reading New York man pleads guilty to posting threats against Warnock and Congress
By Tierney Sneed, CNN A New York man has pleaded guilty after posting online violent threats against Congress and newly elected Georgia Democratic…
Continue Reading Former Michigan Rep. Paul Mitchell urged unity in emotional interview before death: ‘There’s value in people you don’t agree with’
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Paul Mitchell, the former US congressman from Michigan who died this month following a battle with cancer, delivered an…
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