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By Katie Lobosco and Tami Luhby, CNN If it weren’t for her student loan debt, Lark Abelson would already be retired. The 63-year-old took out $5,000 in loans more than 20 years ago to get an associate degree in computer technology from Wor-Wic Community College in Maryland to try to make a better life for

By Keith Allen, Paradise Afshar and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that rape victims in his state can take Plan B, a pregnancy-preventing emergency contraceptive known as a “morning-after pill.” “We want to support those victims, but also those victims can access health care immediately, as well as to report

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The night before Masi and his father were set to leave Afghanistan, the 16-year-old could not sleep. The last time he had gone to the airport, his life had been shattered, his family torn apart. “I didn’t know how to go to the airport again,” Masi said. “It wasn’t easy for

By Andrew Kaczynski and Samantha Woodward, CNN Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for the lengthy jailing of opponents of his who he claimed mishandled classified materials. CNN’s KFile reviewed comments from the former President, dating back to his first presidential campaign in 2016, from speeches, interviews and comments made on social media. The

By Jamie Gangel, Kristen Holmes, Jeremy Herb and Evan Perez, CNN Within a week of the FBI search of former President Donald Trump‘s Mar-a-Lago resort, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over texts and emails to the National Archives that he had not previously turned over from his time in the administration,

By Tierney Sneed and Marshall Cohen, CNN A hearing Thursday in West Palm Beach, Florida, was the first chance former President Donald Trump’s lawyers had to convince US District Judge Aileen Cannon in person that the FBI search warrant on Mar-a-Lago for government records, including those identified as classified, was unwarranted and merited an outside

By Brian Fung, CNN The Internal Revenue Service acknowledged Friday that it had inadvertently exposed a batch of taxpayer information linked to some non-profits and other tax-exempt organizations, following a Wall Street Journal report that said as many as 120,000 individuals may have been affected by the error. The accidentally leaked data did not include

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration has approved more than $1.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, a move likely to further inflame already-heightened tensions between Washington and Beijing. The administration on Friday formally notified Congress of the proposed sales, which include up to 60 anti-ship missiles and up to 100 air-to-air missiles. Laura

By Sara Murray, CNN A federal judge on Friday denied Steve Bannon’s request for a new trial, after the former Trump adviser was convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack. Bannon had raised a series of issues, including about the instructions to

By Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN New Mexico plans to build a new abortion clinic near the Texas border, anticipating that more abortion seekers from surrounding states where the procedure is banned will travel there for care. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, signed an executive order on Wednesday directing that $10 million from her

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team to respond to the devastating flooding in Pakistan. According to the agency, the Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART, will “lead the US government’s response efforts in Pakistan,” where at least 1,100 have been killed and at

By Sonnet Swire, CNN Former Attorney General William Barr appeared on Fox News on Friday to say there is no “legitimate reason” for classified documents to have been at Mar-a-Lago and cast doubt in the idea that they had somehow been declassified. “No. I can’t think of a legitimate reason why they should have been

By Kara Scannell, Sonia Moghe, Rod Griola and Samantha Beech, CNN Federal agents have searched a high-rise apartment in New York City’s affluent Park Avenue and a New York Southhampton estate Thursday connected to a Russian oligarch who recently had his yacht seized, sources told CNN. The Russian owner of the properties is Viktor Vekselberg,