National Politics

By Tierney Sneed, CNN The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday that it plans to hold a hearing examining Texas’ six-week abortion ban and the controversial, expedited Supreme Court procedure that allowed it to take effect this week. The hearing — for which a date and witnesses have not been announced — is one of several

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN President Joe Biden visited Louisiana on Friday to survey damage from Hurricane Ida, after almost a week of the deadly storm ravaging the eastern half of the United States. The President met with local leaders, surveyed some of the storm’s damage and delivered remarks in LaPlace. He also participated in an

By Christina Carrega and Liz Stark, CNN More than two years after one of two ISIS soldiers refused to offer an apology for his role in the kidnapping and brutal murders of four Americans and other hostages in Syria, he has pleaded guilty in federal court. Alexanda Kotey appeared in US District Court in Alexandria,

By Devan Cole, CNN President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden traveled to Walter Reed medical center in Maryland on Thursday to visit wounded US service members. “Tonight, the President and first lady are visiting wounded warriors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center,” the White House said in a statement. While the White

By Alex Rogers and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former President Donald Trump on Thursday gave Republican former football star Herschel Walker his “Complete and Total Endorsement” in Georgia’s US Senate race, praising him as “a friend, a Patriot and an outstanding American who is going to be a GREAT United States Senator.” “Herschel Walker will never

By Priscilla Alvarez and Jennifer Hansler, CNN US officials processing Afghan refugees abroad recently alerted the State Department to instances in which women and girls were forced into marriage or arrived with male partners posing as their husbands to be eligible for evacuation and escape the Taliban, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

By Paula Reid, Kara Scannell and Taylor Romine, CNN Two top Trump Organization officials appeared before a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday in the latest sign that the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump‘s business is ongoing. The Trump Organization’s corporate director of security, Matthew Calamari Jr., arrived midday and remained silent as he

By Oren Liebermann and Devan Cole, CNN The Air Force commander who helped oversee the final withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan detailed the historic experience on Thursday, explaining how forces spent a mere three hours swiftly loading up several military planes during the last mission of America’s longest war. Lt. Col. Alex Pelbath, the

By Oren Liebermann and Paul LeBlanc, CNN An infant who become unresponsive on a flight carrying Afghan evacuees has died after landing in Philadelphia, the Department of Defense confirmed Thursday. The baby was traveling from Ramstein Air base in Germany on a C-17 when the crew was notified that “an infant was unresponsive,” Pentagon spokesman

By Marshall Cohen and Paul LeBlanc, CNN US Capitol riot defendant and so-called “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Chansley, who went viral for wearing a horned bearskin outfit during the attack, is set to plead guilty on Friday, according to court records. Chansley has been charged with six federal crimes in connection with the January 6 insurrection,

By Casey Tolan, Curt Devine and Isabelle Chapman, CNN A Texas woman told police in 2002 that Georgia US Senate candidate Herschel Walker had threatened and stalked her, according to a police report obtained by CNN. The woman, a friend of Walker’s ex-wife, told police that the football star had been following her, and had

By Alex Marquardt, CNN The US Director of National Intelligence has made an extraordinary intervention in a federal court case brought against a top former Saudi intelligence official, invoking the rarely used state secrets privilege to stop classified information from coming out that could cause “exceptionally grave” harm to US national security. The declaration by

By Ryan Nobles, Annie Grayer, Zachary Cohen and Whitney Wild, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is among a group of GOP lawmakers whose phone records are of interest to the select committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, CNN has learned. The committee asked a group of telecommunication companies to preserve

By Annie Grayer, Ella Nilsen and Daniella Diaz, CNN As remnants of Hurricane Ida create dangerous flash floods and tornadoes across the Northeast after leaving much of the South devastated, a key committee in the US House of Representatives is marking up its portion of the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package that includes future funding for