National Politics

By Melanie Zanona, CNN House Democrats in competitive races are putting little daylight between themselves and President Joe Biden, even as Republicans ratchet up their efforts to use the President as a cudgel against their Democratic opponents in the midterm elections. After struggling for months to dent Biden’s popularity, House Republicans finally see an opening

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN US officials have deported a key player in the Russian cybercriminal world who was sentenced to nine years in US prison in 2020 for his alleged role in a scheme that defrauded Americans of millions of dollars, according to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ICE officers put Aleksei Burkov,

By Jennifer Hansler and Jake Tapper, CNN More than 100 US citizens and green card holders and nine special immigrant visa holders were evacuated from Afghanistan via a private charter flight on Tuesday, according to two organizations involved in the effort. Project Dynamo and Human First Coalition said in a press release that the group

By Tara Subramaniam and Holmes Lybrand, CNN During a Senate hearing on Tuesday over the frenzied US withdrawal from Afghanistan, top generals seemingly contradicted earlier claims from President Joe Biden on the administration’s plan to remove troops. In a mid-August interview, Biden repeatedly disputed that military advisers had told him he should keep troops in

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Top military officials warned Tuesday that the war in Afghanistan and the war on terror are not over, even if the US military no longer maintains boots on the ground after 20 years of a consistent military presence in the country. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs

By Marshall Cohen, CNN A Pennsylvania woman who stormed the US Capitol on January 6 and said she had been looking for Nancy Pelosi “to shoot her in the friggin’ brain” pleaded guilty Tuesday to a low-level misdemeanor for unlawfully protesting on restricted grounds. Doylestown gym owner Dawn Bancroft entered the guilty plea in DC

By Tierney Sneed, Paula Reid and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Former Trump campaign and White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has defeated an arbitration case brought against her by the Trump campaign, which alleged that she had violated a non-disclosure agreement with public comments and a book critical of former President Donald Trump. In a summary

By Geneva Sands, CNN The top senators on the Homeland Security Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday to require critical infrastructure companies to report cyberattacks to the federal government and to mandate that most organizations tell the federal government if they make ransomware payments. If enacted, the bill will create the first national requirement for critical

By Allie Malloy, CNN Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama broke ground on the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago on Tuesday, beginning one of the final steps in the long delayed project. During an event at the center’s construction site on Chicago’s South Side, the former President spoke about his desire

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN A leading Democratic advocacy group is launching a $1.7 million digital advertising campaign this week to mobilize voters to turn out in this fall’s elections in two key states. The advertising blitz by Priorities USA, shared first with CNN, is aimed at encouraging voters to cast early ballots in person in