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By Fredreka Schouten Just days after launching a bid for Georgia governor, Republican David Perdue on Friday deepened his support of election fraud conspiracies by filing a lawsuit that seeks to inspect absentee ballots from the 2020 election. The lawsuit alleges that thousands of counterfeit or fraudulent ballots were counted in Fulton County, the state’s

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter One hundred days after allowing a Texas law that bars abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy to go into effect — sending women scrambling to neighboring states to obtain a procedure protected by the Constitution — the Supreme Court on Friday gave supporters of abortion

By Zachary Cohen, Annie Grayer, Ryan Nobles and Whitney Wild, CNN The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot at the US Capitol issued six additional subpoenas Friday, including one to former aide to former President Donald Trump and current Ohio congressional candidate Max Miller. The targets in this subpoena group were involved in

By Donald Judd, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday said that — while he recognizes that inflation “is a real problem” — he feels the US is at the peak of price inflation. Biden told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he feels inflation will decrease upon passage of his administration’s Build Back Better plan “because it’s

By Sara Murray and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal judge on Friday rejected Steve Bannon‘s challenge to the limits the Justice Department was seeking on public disclosure of evidence the government turned over to him in his case. Several media organizations had also challenged the Justice Department’s proposed limits. US District Judge Carl Nichols —

By Lauren Fox and Manu Raju, CNN The Congressional Budget Office has released a new analysis of the Democrats’ social safety net plan to see how much the bill would cost if a series of provisions were extended long term, fulfilling a GOP request intended to portray the bill as far more expensive than it

By Ariane de Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Supreme Court left in place Friday a Texas abortion law that bars the procedure after the first six weeks of pregnancy, but the justices said that abortion providers have the right to challenge the law in federal court. The court’s action means that the case will

By Kylie Atwood, CNN The State Department has begun a 90-day review of its role in the withdrawal from Afghanistan that will focus on its actions during the last year of the Trump administration and the first nine months of the Biden administration, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced in a message to the department’s

By Katie Bo Lillis The CIA is overhauling how it trains and manages its network of spies as part of a broader effort to transition away from 20 years of counterterrorism wars and focus more closely on adversaries like China and Russia, multiple sources familiar with the move tell CNN. After two decades of intense

By Ella Nilsen and John Keefe, CNN UN scientists were unequivocal in a landmark report published this summer: Human-caused climate change is intensifying extreme weather events. No region is spared from extreme weather, but America’s coasts are overwhelmingly at risk to flooding caused by rising seas, stronger hurricanes and torrential rain. As the climate crisis

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The White House has enacted a new policy requiring the FBI and other agencies to help US officials quickly assess whether a cyberattack “rises to the level of a national security concern” that could hamper the provision of key services such as fuel or food, according to a National Security Council

By Andrew Carey and Amir Tal, CNN Former President Donald Trump railed against his one-time close ally Benjamin Netanyahu in a new interview series, saying he felt betrayed by the then-prime minister of Israel’s video message to Joe Biden congratulating him on winning the presidency. “It was early. OK? Let’s put it this way —

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN President Joe Biden kicked off the inaugural White House “Summit for Democracy” on Thursday by sounding alarms about challenges to democracy around the globe as authoritarian governments gain ground. But advocates say much more work is needed at home to shore up America’s democracy, nearly a year after a violent attack