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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A top State Department official traveled to Venezuela this week and met with detained Americans as the Biden administration continues to seek their release, multiple sources confirmed to CNN Friday. Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens’ quiet visit to the capital city of Caracas represents a significant development as

By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A federal judge on Friday upheld the Justice Department’s decision to use a felony obstruction law against US Capitol rioters, a major victory for prosecutors who have used the statute to charge hundreds of Donald Trump supporters who were involved in the January 6 insurrection. Several other defendants

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Gloria Borger, Tierney Sneed and Holmes Lybrand, CNN In the weeks leading up to January 6, one of Donald Trump’s campaign lawyers wrote memos outlining how she believed then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject electoral college votes and overturn the 2020 election, including one theory that he could ignore a federal law.

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