National Politics

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A US delegation was set to meet with “senior Taliban representatives from Kabul” in Doha, Qatar, this weekend, a State Department official said ahead of the meeting — the first such gathering since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August. “This meeting is a continuation of the pragmatic

By Lauren Dezenski, CNN This week, an urgent showdown over the debt ceiling was averted — for now — as Republicans cut a deal that pushed the deadline back by two months. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court returned for in-person proceedings for the first time since the pandemic began, kicking off what is expected to be

By Hannah Rabinowitz A federal judge on Friday sentenced one of the US Capitol rioters to three months in jail, saying that the punishment should be a warning to other defendants that they deserve incarceration if they deflect responsibility or downplay the attack. “It has become evident to me in the riot cases that many

By Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court on Friday night put a temporary hold on a judge’s order that had blocked Texas’ six-week abortion ban. The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals acted swiftly to grant Texas’ request for an administrative stay of the order, which it had filed Friday afternoon. The state’s move

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Federal Election Commission won’t take action against the Republican National Committee for how it paid for the lawyers who represented then-President Donald Trump and his son, Donald Trump Jr., in the various Russia investigations. The campaign finance allegations against the RNC — which were filed with the FEC in 2018

By Nicole Gaouette and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Three top Biden officials stressed the importance of the US-Mexico relationship Friday and the importance of the new bilateral security arrangement between the two nations alongside their Mexican counterparts in Mexico City. “We’re here because this high-level security dialogue is vital” to the “most urgent challenges facing our

By Evan Perez and Zachary Cohen, CNN The White House has informed the National Archives that it is not asserting executive privilege on an initial batch of documents related to the January 6 violence at the US Capitol, paving the way for the Archives to share documents with the House committee investigating the attempted insurrection.

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Seven Senate Republicans defied former President Donald Trump by voting to convict him for inciting an insurrection after losing the 2020 election. But eight months later, they’re largely responding with a collective shrug to warnings again he’s taking steps to try to overturn the 2024 election, telling CNN they see no

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer Supreme Court justices are talking to each other again. For the first time since March 2020, they held oral arguments in person this week. As the justices sat elbow-to-elbow on the elevated bench, shed of the telephonic constraints, their interactions were more pointed, their hypothetical

By Katie Bo Lillis President Joe Biden on Friday signed into law long-delayed legislation to provide support to victims of the mysterious “Havana syndrome,” a strange confluence of symptoms that have sickened diplomats, spies and service members around the globe. “I was pleased to sign the HAVANA Act into law to ensure we are doing

By Maegan Vazquez and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday attributed the disappointing September jobs report to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic but sought to frame the new data as steady progress toward the nation’s economic recovery. In a speech at the White House, Biden pointed to the specific week when the survey for

By Katelyn Polantz, Veronica Stracqualursi and Kristen Holmes, CNN Former President Donald Trump racked up more than $70 million in losses over a four-year period from his Washington, DC, hotel, while publicly claiming that the hotel was making more than tens of millions of dollars, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee. The