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By Phil Mattingly, CNN Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Wednesday had a blunt message about stalled legislation that would address a critical shortage in semiconductor chips. “The message is, time’s up,” Raimondo said in an interview with CNN a few hours before traveling to Capitol Hill with top defense and intelligence officials to meet

By Daniella Diaz, CNN Former President Barack Obama sent an email to Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician who went on to become a GOP congressman, expressing his “disappointment” over Jackson’s criticism of Joe Biden’s cognitive health in 2020, according to a copy of the email obtained by CNN. Obama sent the email, which

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Biden administration has a plan to slow interest from adding to borrowers’ federal student loan debt balances. A proposed change to a federal rule announced earlier this month would limit the number of ways interest adds to the principal balance — known as capitalization. The change could go into effect

By Kylie Atwood, Vasco Cotovio and Chandelis Duster, CNN Three Americans were detained in Venezuela earlier this year, including Los Angeles-based lawyer Eyvin Hernandez, a Venezuelan legal source told CNN. Hernandez, 44, was arrested in the state of Tachira, the source said. The two other Americans were detained in Venezuela around the same time, according

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden was greeted in Israel on Wednesday by a row of Israeli leaders offering open palms to the President. Biden offered a closed fist in exchange. The President doled out fist bumps and pats on the shoulder to the delegation stationed along the red carpet at the foot of

By Whitney Wild, CNN A member of the US Secret Service Counter Assault Team was detained by the Israeli national police in Jerusalem this week after he allegedly assaulted a woman outside of a bar, a source tells CNN, and the Secret Service says the agent is on his way back to the US. It’s

By Jeremy Diamond and Natasha Bertrand, CNN As President Joe Biden arrived here on Wednesday, he is doing something he has never done on a foreign trip: Embracing one of his predecessor’s legacy achievements. While much of his foreign travel in his first 18 months in office has focused on reversing the foreign policy of

By Annie Grayer, CNN Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said Tuesday that the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has “started producing information” for the Department of Justice relevant to its request for transcripts of interviews the committee has conducted. “We have started producing information about who we have interviewed and that kind