The new Texas voting law includes these 7 major changes
By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Tuesday a bill that imposes a raft of new restrictions on voting in one of the…
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Taliban name ex-Guantanamo detainees and wanted man to new caretaker government
By Tim Lister and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN The Taliban on Tuesday announced the formation of a hardline interim government for Afghanistan, filling top…
Continue Reading Jill Biden goes back to school
By Kate Bennett, CNN Of all the educators returning to classrooms in person this fall, only one will be ferried there by a motorcade of Secret…
Continue Reading Human Rights Campaign terminates president over how he helped Cuomo retaliate against an accuser
By Joe Sutton and Rob Frehse, CNN The Human Rights Campaign has terminated its president Alphonso David following an investigation last month over…
Continue Reading Environmental groups ask Congress to fund billions of dollars in climate measures in reconciliation
By Ella Nilsen, CNN As Democratic lawmakers begin crafting a massive $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package this week, a coalition of prominent…
Continue Reading Biden set to deliver major speech on next phase of pandemic response, sources say
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden is set to deliver a major address on the next phase of his pandemic response Wednesday, two sources…
Continue Reading It’s a liberals’ lament at the Supreme Court now for Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan
By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Not since the 1930s and the “Nine Old Men” era have liberal Supreme…
Continue Reading Biden on Hurricane Ida relief efforts: ‘We’re not going home til this gets done’
By Maegan Vazquez, Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden on Tuesday pledged his administration’s full support in Hurricane Ida…
Continue Reading A Q&A about the California recall with the man who helped Schwarzenegger win the last one
By Maeve Reston, CNN With about a week before the California recall election, everyone is looking for clues about the fate of Democratic Gov. Gavin…
Continue Reading The scramble to defend against Texas’ 6-week abortion ban
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Still reeling from a Supreme Court order that effectively blocked most abortions in Texas, providers…
Continue Reading Ex-FBI official says law enforcement needs to take upcoming right-wing rally in DC ‘very seriously’
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said Monday evening that law enforcement needs to take the upcoming right-wing rally in…
Continue Reading Union workers propel Newsom in waning days of recall campaign
CNN’s Kyung Lah reports on California Gov. Newsom’s attempts to rally support in the days leading to the recall…
Continue Reading Union workers propel Newsom in waning days of recall campaign
By Dan Merica and Kyung Lah, CNN It was approaching a sweltering 100 degrees when California Gov. Gavin Newsom jumped into the back of a flatbed…
Continue Reading Pretrial hearings for alleged 9/11 plotters set to resume at Guantanamo this week
By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Pretrial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who has been accused of being the lead plotter behind the September 11…
Continue Reading Attorney general pledges to protect abortion clinics in Texas that may come ‘under attack’
By Christina Carrega and Tierney Sneed, CNN Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged Monday to protect abortion clinics in Texas by enforcing a…
Continue Reading US helped 4 US citizens leave Afghanistan overland, official says
A lot has changed since the Taliban were last in charge, like cell phones and social media. But much has not, especially Afghanistan’s enduring…
Continue Reading US helped 4 US citizens leave Afghanistan overland, official says
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain tells CNN’s Dana Bash that the administration is in contact with Americans still in Afghanistan and is working…
Continue Reading US helped 4 US citizens leave Afghanistan overland, official says
By Alex Marquardt and Chandelis Duster, CNN The United States facilitated the departure of four American citizens from Afghanistan via an overland…
Continue Reading Jobless Americans left scrambling after pandemic unemployment benefits end
By Tami Luhby, CNN April Stokes wants to go back to work. An optician by trade, Stokes was employed at Henry Ford OptimEyes until the coronavirus…
Continue Reading Rep. McCaul claims Taliban not allowing US citizens to depart Mazar-i-Sharif airport
By Daniella Diaz, Jennifer Hansler, Nicky Robertson and Sonnet Swire, CNN Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs…
Continue Reading Bittersweet reunion for family torn apart by Kabul airport attack
By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Nearly 10 days after a deadly suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport that left them injured and tore their family apart,…
Continue Reading Schools still have billions of federal Covid relief money to spend
By Katie Lobosco, CNN Congress authorized more than $190 billion to help America’s schools reopen and stay open during the pandemic — and…
Continue Reading Kinzinger: GOP should not control House if party pushes lies and conspiracies
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) responds to House Freedom Caucus head Rep. Andy Biggs’ plan to request him and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) be removed from the…
Continue Reading Kinzinger: GOP should not control House if party pushes lies and conspiracies
By Devan Cole, CNN Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger urged his party to refrain from pushing lies, conspiracies and division on Sunday, saying if its…
Continue Reading Biden’s chief of staff won’t say when booster shots will be available but commits to following the science
White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain tells CNN’s Dana Bash that when it comes to vaccine boosters, the Biden administration is “ready to go once the…
Continue Reading Klobuchar calls Supreme Court decision over Texas abortion law ‘blatantly against Roe v. Wade’
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) says the Supreme Court decision to not intervene to stop a Texas law that prohibits abortions after fetal cardiac activity…
Continue Reading Klobuchar calls for eliminating Senate filibuster to protect abortion rights
By Chandelis Duster, CNN Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar called for immediate action from Democrats in the wake of the US Supreme Court allowing…
Continue Reading White House chief of staff: US is ‘going to find ways’ to get remaining Americans out of Afghanistan
By Jason Hoffman and Devan Cole, CNN White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Sunday that the US will find ways to get any remaining Americans in…
Continue Reading As Donald Trump makes noise about 2024, Melania Trump tries to stay out of the public eye
Melania Trump’s disinterest in public political life runs deep enough that she has told several friends that not only does she not intend to bolster…
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