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By Christina Carrega, CNN A Miami nurse has pleaded guilty for threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris, the Justice Department announced. Niviane Petit Phelps, 39, pleaded guilty on Friday to a six-count indictment, including charges of threats against the vice president. Phelps is scheduled for sentencing on November 19. She faces up to five

By Jessica Dean, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer did not rule out including raising the nation’s borrowing limit in the Democrats’ massive economic plan which is currently being written. “We are discussing all of the options with the President and Speaker Pelosi,” Schumer said when asked if including the

By Marshall Cohen, CNN The man who was caught with a machete and bayonet-style knife near the Democratic Party headquarters was formally charged Tuesday, as more details emerge of his White supremacist ideology. US Capitol Police said they found Donald Craighead with the two weapons in his truck on Monday, and that the vehicle was

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The US Justice Department on Tuesday announced federal computer fraud charges against three men who allegedly helped build a hacking program for the United Arab Emirates government. Marc Baier, Ryan Adams and Daniel Gericke — all former US intelligence or military operatives — are accused of using computer exploits to break

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN In their new book “Peril,” Bob Woodward and Robert Costa document how top Republicans struggled to manage Donald Trump’s exit from the White House while also trying to convince him to help the party down the road. Filled with scenes of backbiting, temper tantrums, and expletive-filled

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden will urge world leaders to collectively commit to vaccinating 70% of the world’s population against Covid-19 within a year, an ambitious goal he is expected to unveil during a summit gathering to discuss the pandemic next week. Draft targets distributed by the United States to potential summit participants

By Ellie Kaufman and Oren Liebermann, CNN Four US military branches have set deadlines for when active-duty, reserve and National Guard service members must be vaccinated against Covid-19. The deadlines set by the services follow Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s announcement at the end of August that all US military service members must be vaccinated

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Just eight days after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump was so determined to end the war in Afghanistan during his presidency that he secretly signed a memo to withdraw all troops by January 15, 2021, according to a new book, “Peril,” from journalists Bob Woodward

By Alex Marquardt, CNN The Biden administration plans to release most of a controversial $300 million tranche of aid for Egypt, with less than half of it being temporarily held back and conditioned on meeting human rights conditions despite concerns about the country’s record. Egypt is due to receive $170 million outright while the remaining

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN It’s Election Day in California, where voters are deciding the recall fate of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. The ballot features two questions. The first question asks voters whether or not to recall Newsom. The second gives voters a choice between more than 40 candidates about who should replace him, if he

By Nicole Gaouette and Ellie Kaufman, CNN Senate Republicans and Democrats expressed deep frustration with the Biden administration Tuesday, complaining that Secretary of State Antony Blinken is the only official to testify on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as both sides tried to lay blame for the chaotic exit. Blinken, appearing a day after testifying

By Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart, CNN Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump’s top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to “Peril,” a new

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN David Shahoulian, a senior Biden official at the Department of Homeland Security and influential figure on border issues, is leaving the department for personal reasons, a source familiar with the departure told CNN Tuesday, marking the latest shake-up at DHS. The resignation comes a day after Karen Olick, the chief of

By Ella Nilsen, CNN After decades of inaction from the United States on climate, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats face a reckoning. Biden has big climate ambitions, vowing in April to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. The world is watching closely to see whether the US will deliver on that promise,

By Christina Carrega and Peter Nickeas, CNN Federal law enforcement officers will be banned from using neck restraints during arrests and using no-knock entries while executing warrants except in rare cases, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. Both the neck restraints and no-knock warrants have resulted in high-profile in-custody deaths in recent years that have spurred

By Tami Luhby, CNN The nation’s poverty rate rose to 11.4% last year, but the first two rounds of federal stimulus payments helped keep 11.7 million Americans out of poverty, according to Census Bureau data released Tuesday. The payments, a key part of the unprecedented federal response to the economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus

By Manu Raju, CNN Chief Congressional Correspondent Senate Democrats are proposing new legislation to overhaul voting laws after months of discussions to get all 50 of their members behind a single bill, allowing their caucus to speak with one voice on the issue even though it stands virtually no chance of becoming law. The proposal