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By Morgan Rimmer, CNN The requests for help evacuating Americans and Afghans have come from every direction for the military veterans serving in Congress: from friends, from former platoonmates, from constituents and from Afghans they served alongside on the front lines. Congressional offices this month turned into around-the-clock operations to help get people out of

By CNN The US intelligence community reached an inconclusive assessment about the origin of the Covid-19 virus following a 90-day investigation ordered by President Joe Biden, according to an unclassified summary of the probe released publicly on Friday. Read the summary below: The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights

By Alex Marquardt and Jeremy Herb, CNN The US intelligence community reached an inconclusive assessment about the origin of the Covid-19 virus following a 90-day investigation ordered by President Joe Biden, according to an unclassified summary of the probe released publicly on Friday. The intelligence community is still divided about which of the two theories

By Eric Bradner and Dianne Gallagher, CNN The Texas House approved a raft of new voting restrictions Friday, as majority Republicans seeking to hold on to power in a rapidly changing state finally overcame months of delays by Democrats who said the measure will raise new barriers to the ballot box for marginalized voters. The

By Kevin Liptak, CNN When Israel’s prime minister visited the White House on Friday, for the first time in 12 years it was someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu. That alone lent the talks a sense of renewal, even though stark differences remain between President Joe Biden and his new Israeli counterpart Naftali Bennett. “I bring

By Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden said Friday that his administration was looking into whether to shorten the window of the planned Covid-19 booster shot program, something he discussed with Israel Prime Minister Naftali Bennett during a visit at the White House. “We’re considering the advice you’ve given that we should start earlier,” Biden

By Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles, Whitney Wild and Zachary Cohen, CNN The House Select Committee investigating the deadly January 6 Capitol riot sent letters to 15 social media companies, including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, seeking to understand how misinformation and efforts to overturn the election by both foreign and domestic actors existed on their platforms.

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The United States is shipping more than 2.2 million doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to South Africa that are set to arrive on Saturday, according to a White House official. The 2,217,150 doses are being donated through the global vaccination program Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, or COVAX, the official said. Cumulatively, the

By Joan Biskupic, CNN legal analyst & Supreme Court biographer The Supreme Court slapped down the Biden administration twice this week, giving the White House scant regard in a Tuesday dispute over asylum policy and late Thursday acidly rejecting its defense of an eviction moratorium tied to the surge in Covid-19 infections. The two actions

By Jeremy Diamond, Kate Sullivan and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were warned by their national security team on Friday “another terror attack in Kabul is likely,” according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. “The next few days of this mission will be the most dangerous period to

By Melanie Zanona and Whitney Wild, CNN Lawmakers and law enforcement officials are growing concerned about the possibility of violence and unrest on Capitol Hill as two key dates approach next month: a right-wing rally in support of the jailed January 6 rioters and the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Those fresh fears come as the

By Melanie Zanona, CNN The GOP is divided over how hard — and how quickly — to go after President Joe Biden in the wake of Thursday’s deadly attack on US troops at the Kabul airport. While a growing chorus of rank-and-file Republicans have called for Biden’s resignation or impeachment over the administration’s disastrous exit

By Emma Tucker and Evan Perez, CNN US Marshals preparing for a recent operation with local police in Missouri to arrest a fugitive allegedly involved in drug trafficking faced last-minute hurdles because of a controversial new state law aimed at protecting gun rights, according to US law enforcement officials. The officials told CNN that local

By Maeve Reston, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris’s decision to cancel her Friday rally in California with embattled Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom dealt a setback to Democrats’ intensive efforts to spur their voters to vote against the effort to recall the first-term governor. The former California senator would have been among the most high-profile surrogates