National Politics

By Nicky Robertson Then-Vice President Joe Biden was right when he urged then-President Barack Obama to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said Sunday, adding that the US could have left Afghanistan earlier. “I thought we could turn it around, obviously, I was wrong,” Mullen,

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the Biden administration’s actions on the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program in the lead up to the fall of Kabul but acknowledged that those efforts were not the same as “a full-on evacuation.” The top US diplomat on Sunday indicated that the administration thought it

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Members of the cryptocurrency world are donating to crypto-focused organizations, hiring lobbyists and ramping up advocacy efforts in a push to get lawmakers on board with the industry, as pressure builds on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to address a cryptocurrency provision of the bipartisan infrastructure bill before a vote in the

By Ellie Kaufman, Oren Liebermann, Veronica Stracqualursi and Alexis Benveniste, CNN The Department of Defense is mobilizing commercial airline flights to help with the United States’ evacuation efforts in Afghanistan, which has been chaotic as thousands are desperate to leave the country after the Taliban swiftly took control. The Pentagon announced Sunday that Defense Secretary

By Eric Bradner and Stephanie Becker, CNN The company that conducted Arizona’s sham review of the 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County during the 2020 presidential election is set Monday to deliver a report detailing their findings to the Republican state senators who ordered it up. Elections experts in both parties have said for

By Devan Cole and Daniella Diaz, CNN Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger on Sunday placed blame on the Trump administration for the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan, saying its 2020 agreement with the Taliban sowed the seeds for the US’ turbulent exit from the country. “Let’s keep in mind, (former Secretary of State) Mike Pompeo met with

By Veronica Stracqualursi, Betsy Klein and Nikki Carvajal, CNN President Joe Biden said Sunday that “a number of changes” had been made in Kabul to ease the ability of Americans and Afghan allies to flee the country amid emerging threats, and admitted there are discussions about extending the August 31 deadline for US troops to

By Daniel Dale, Holmes Lybrand and Tara Subramaniam, CNN There’s been no shortage of fact-based criticism aimed at the Biden administration’s handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. But some of the criticism from former Trump administration officials has departed from the truth. In public statements this past week, former Vice President Mike Pence, former

By John Harwood, Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN The Biden administration could potentially compel US airlines to help with transporting tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees as the US military struggles to manage the influx of people following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, according to a senior administration official. President Joe Biden is scheduled

By Barbara Starr, Oren Liebermann, Ellie Kaufman and Nicole Gaouette, CNN The US military is establishing “alternative routes” to Kabul airport because of a threat the terror group ISIS-K poses to the airport and its surroundings, as President Joe Biden met with senior officials Saturday to discuss the security situation in Afghanistan and counter-terrorism operations

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Sugarbush Resort in Vermont is preparing for a busy winter season, but looming over the effort to host hundreds of guests is the need to ramp up hiring — both domestic and foreign. Coming out of the winter months, employers prepared for staff to return and gear up for the busy

By Maeve Reston and Ethan Cohen, CNN California voters head to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Millions of voters have already cast their ballots — all registered voters in the state were mailed one — and so far, Democrats have outpaced their registration advantage in the overwhelmingly

By Fredreka Schouten, CNN An unusual security breach of an election system in a rural Colorado county has set off a criminal investigation and prompted state authorities to sideline a Republican election official in a fresh display of how debunked claims of a stolen 2020 presidential election continue to resonate across the country. The saga

By Alex Rogers, CNN Former President Donald Trump will rally the faithful in Alabama on Saturday, a boon to Rep. Mo Brooks, his favored Senate candidate, who is behind in the money race there and struggling to attract some Republicans unnerved by his brand of slash-and-burn politics. This year, the six-term congressman helped lead the

By Zachary Cohen and Oren Liebermann, CNN US national security officials are working to account for more than 20 years worth of weapons provided to the Afghan military as images of Taliban fighters brandishing American-made rifles and riding in abandoned Humvees are raising concerns about what else was left behind. The Taliban’s newfound American arsenal