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…
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‘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…
Continue Reading California Gov. Newsom sharpens message as Larry Elder poses threat in recall race
CNN’s Kyung Lah speaks to California Gov. Gavin Newsom about the upcoming recall election in his state and looks into a possible Republican front…
Continue Reading California Gov. Newsom sharpens message as Larry Elder poses threat in recall race
By Maeve Reston and Kyung Lah, CNN As he hit the campaign trail this weekend to fight the Republican-led effort to oust him, California Gov. Gavin…
Continue Reading Exclusive: Title, cover and details of new Trump book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa revealed
By Jamie Gangel and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN First it was “Fear,” then it was “Rage,” now it is “Peril.” That is the…
Continue Reading Biden to return to White House for address on Afghanistan
CNN’s Clarissa Ward describes life inside Afghanistan’s capital Kabul as Taliban fighters swarm the streets after entering the city’s presidential…
Continue Reading Biden admits Afghanistan’s collapse ‘did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated’
By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Kaitlan Collins and Jennifer Hansler, CNN President Joe Biden admitted that the collapse of the Afghan government and…
Continue Reading Justice Department civil rights chief calls on Congress to pass voting rights bill
By Tierney Sneed and Jessica Schneider, CNN The leader of the Justice Department’s civil rights division told Congress Monday that…
Continue Reading US resumes operations at Kabul airport after US forces kill two armed men
By Barbara Starr, Jason Hoffman and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Violence erupted at the Kabul airport as US forces shot and killed two armed men who fired…
Continue Reading US temporarily suspends operations at Kabul airport as Afghans rush airfield
Video shows people clinging to the fuselage of a US military aircraft as it taxied at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. CNN has reached…
Continue Reading Historic increase in food stamp benefits is on the way
By Tami Luhby, CNN Food stamp benefits will jump 27% above pre-pandemic levels, on average, starting in October — the largest increase in the…
Continue Reading Historic increase in food stamps benefits is on the way
Though the pace of consumer price inflation slowed in July, prices continue to rise as the economy recovers from the pandemic. CNN’s Matt Egan…
Continue Reading Texas’ high court halts mask rules as counties defy governor
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court has blocked mask mandates ordered by two of the nation’s largest counties that defied Republican…
Continue Reading Chaos is unfolding in Afghanistan. Here’s what you need to know.
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The Taliban edged closer to solidifying control of Afghanistan on Sunday, including entering the presidential palace in Kabul…
Continue Reading US curtailing evacuation flights of Afghans to US for now to prioritize Americans
By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration has curtailed the number of government-sponsored evacuation…
Continue Reading Top US general says terror groups could reconstitute in Afghanistan sooner than expected
Secretary of State Antony Blinken defends the Biden administration evacuation of Afghanistan in an interview with CNN’s Jake…
Continue Reading Top US general says terror groups could reconstitute in Afghanistan sooner than expected
By Natasha Bertrand, Jennifer Hansler and Melanie Zanona, CNN Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said Sunday in a briefing for…
Continue Reading Top Republican on foreign affairs committee slams Biden over ‘unmitigated disaster’ in Afghanistan
By Devan Cole and Daniella Diaz, CNN The top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee slammed the Biden administration over the rapidly…
Continue Reading Hochul vows ‘zero tolerance’ in her administration once she becomes New York governor
By Chandelis Duster, CNN New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who will make history as the female governor of New York, on Sunday vowed to uphold…
Continue Reading Hochul vows ‘zero tolerance’ in her administration once she becomes New York governor
Kathy Hochul will become New York’s first female…
Continue Reading State Department ‘pushing the envelope’ by offering Dark Web informants cryptocurrency rewards for information on hackers attacking the United States
By Alex Marquardt, CNN As hackers and cybersecurity experts descended on Las Vegas last week for the famous cyber conference Black Hat, they may have…
Continue Reading Biden officials admit miscalculation as Afghanistan’s national forces and government rapidly fall
By Kevin Liptak and Jason Hoffman, CNN President Joe Biden and his administration struggled Sunday to project order amid a race by American and other…
Continue Reading Biden administration struggles to project order as Taliban enters Kabul
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken denies that the withdrawal from Kabul is similar to the one in Saigon at the close of the Vietnam War because…
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