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By Ellie Kaufman, CNN On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, pretrial hearings in the nine-year-long case against five men accused of plotting and executing the attacks continued in a heavily guarded military courtroom in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. While the hearings this week were the first to be held

By Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz, Olanma Mang and Andrew Millman, CNN Seven US Capitol riot defendants pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to the January 6 insurrection, including one man who threatened to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. With this latest flurry of court activity, 10% of the more than 600 known federal defendants

By Sonnet Swire, CNN This week, President Joe Biden outlined a more aggressive strategy to combat Covid-19 and announced new vaccine and testing requirements that could impact more than 100 million Americans. Meanwhile, the nation marks 20 years since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Monday Jobless Americans left scrambling after pandemic unemployment benefits

By Maegan Vazquez and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden paid tribute to the victims of the September 11 terror attacks in a short video address on Friday, saying ahead of the attacks’ 20th anniversary that the “central lesson” of 9/11 is that national unity is America’s greatest strength. “We saw heroism everywhere, in places

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A judge on Friday ordered a US Capitol riot defendant to remain jailed in part because of a previous incident in which the defendant became so incensed by the suggestion that a person who took part in the January 6 attack had “Foxitis” that he allegedly threatened a probation officer. The

By Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer, CNN The House committee investigating the deadly riot at the US Capitol on January 6 issued a not-so-subtle threat Friday to social media companies, saying the panel still needs “much more information” and would use any available means to compel them to cooperate. “The majority of the

By Dan Merica, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom backed President Joe Biden’s newly announced coronavirus vaccine requirements during a news conference on Friday, telling reporters that he “broadly” supports the move and the “President’s intentionality.” The governor, who is in the final days of fighting an attempt to recall him from office, also used Biden’s

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN A Russian-speaking cybercriminal group responsible for a series of ransomware attacks on major US firms brought some of its infrastructure back online this week in a sign that it could be back in business, according to cybersecurity experts. Payment portals and a victim-shaming website used by the so-called REvil group had

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration appealed on Friday a Texas court ruling that found the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program unlawful — injecting fresh uncertainty into the lives of thousands of immigrants. The Justice Department filed a notice to appeal US District Judge Andrew Hanen’s ruling, kicking off the appeals process

By Kevin Liptak, CNN Flights of Afghan refugees to the US were paused Friday after four cases of measles were discovered among Afghans who had recently arrived in the country. The White House said the halt was recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the four measles cases were diagnosed. “Operation

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Democrats made their case Friday to include a path to legalization for millions of immigrants in their $3.5 trillion bill to expand the country’s social safety net. In a key meeting with the Senate’s parliamentarian, Elizabeth McDonough, Democrats argued for their plan to give roughly 8 million

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Pau Mosquera, CNN Former Venezuelan intelligence official Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, also known as “El Pollo,” was arrested on Thursday in Madrid for his alleged involvement in large-scale drug trafficking activities, the US Justice Department announced Friday. Carvajal Barrios, 61, was indicted last year in the Southern District of New York,

By Kate Sullivan, CNN A newly formed White House council to promote competition across the US economy and lower costs for American families is holding its first meeting on Friday in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. The White House will be rolling out a new website for this council, called the White House

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Twenty years after 9/11, the changes the attacks brought to American life still reverberate across political and demographic lines. A new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds that 57% of Americans say the attacks impacted the way they live their life today and 68% say the attacks had an

By Ryan Nobles, CNN Hundreds of law enforcement officials were briefed on the potential for violence on January 6 from protesters planning to attempt to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory, and those officials discussed how to communicate in case of a “mass-casualty event,” according to an email obtained by a watchdog group.

By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden challenged Republicans to test his new vaccine requirements in court Friday as he stressed his administration’s commitment to keeping students safe as he visited a Washington, DC, middle school on Friday. In a visit highlighting one part of his six-pronged plan to combat the pandemic,

By Erica Orden, CNN Igor Fruman, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, pleaded guilty Friday in New York federal court to a charge stemming from a case alleging he funneled foreign money to US campaign coffers. Fruman, 56, pleaded guilty to solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national. He faces up to five years in

By Daniel Dale, CNN Polls suggest California voters are poised to defeat an effort to recall the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. The polls could be wrong or change fast. At present, though, their findings are entirely unremarkable. California has nearly twice as many registered Democrats as registered Republicans. Newsom was elected by almost 24

By Kate Sullivan, CNN Sen. Joe Biden was on the phone with his wife during his morning commute from Delaware to Washington, DC, when the second plane hit the World Trade Center. “Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.” “Jill, what is it?” “Another plane … the other tower.” Biden, then the chairman