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Cindy McCain said Sunday that if her late husband, Arizona Sen. John McCain, were alive, he would be watching the US’ approach to withdrawing troops from Afghanistan and warned that America’s longest war will have been “for nothing” if it’s not done correctly. “I’ve often thought what John would say right now, what he would

White House officials on Sunday denied Iranian state media reports that the US has reached an agreement with Iran to lift economic sanctions against the country, saying that there is still much to be negotiated over the coming weeks. US and Iranian officials held talks in Vienna last month aimed at bringing the United States

President Joe Biden hasn’t committed to K-12 schools reopening full-time and in-person in the fall, one of his senior advisers said Sunday, because the coronavirus remains unpredictable. “He said ‘probably.’ He did not say ‘absolutely,’ ” Senior Adviser to the President Anita Dunn told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” “Because we’ve all

Here’s a look at the life of former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Personal Birth date: May 15, 1937 Birth place: Prague, Czechoslovakia Birth name: Marie Jana Korbelova Father: Josef Korbel, diplomat Mother: Mandula Korbel Marriage: Joseph Albright (1959-1983, divorced) Children: Katharine, 1967; Anne and Alice (twins), 1961 Education: Wellesley College, B.A., 1959; Columbia

Things have been quieter around here in presidential-fact-check land. Not because President Joe Biden is accurate all the time. He certainly isn’t. But through his first 100 days in the Oval Office, Biden has given us intermittent false claims rather than the staggering avalanche of daily wrongness we faced from his predecessor. By CNN’s rough

Letters signed by President Joe Biden have begun to go out notifying beneficiaries of their direct payments under the administration’s Covid relief package, CNN has learned. The letters were sent out this past week, a White House official tells CNN, to notify recipients who received direct payments under the American Rescue Plan last month. “My

The Biden administration disclosed Trump-era rules on Friday regulating the use of deadly force against terrorism suspects abroad, releasing them with several redacted lines to the American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Times as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit after the Trump administration refused to make them public. The rules,

The Treasury Department’s special inspector general for pandemic recovery is warning of “reduced oversight” of two Covid relief programs given billions to distribute, as it says its jurisdiction has been hampered and claims “things are not working well.” In a quarterly report to Congress released Friday, Brian Miller, the special inspector general, said his office

The FBI in late 2019 knew Rudy Giuliani was the target of a Russian influence operation intended to damage now-President Joe Biden in the 2020 election by spreading falsehoods, but never directly warned him about the concern despite earlier reporting suggesting Giuliani had been briefed, according to reporting from The Washington Post that was corrected

The Biden administration will maintain the National Space Council and Vice President Kamala Harris will chair it, according to senior administration officials, adding another item to the vice president’s portfolio. Harris confirmed her new role on Saturday, writing in a tweet, “As I’ve said before: In America, when we shoot for the moon, we plant

Progressives in the House were apprehensive when Joe Biden stepped into office — the President was an unabashedly moderate Democrat and ready to cut deals with Republicans, many of whom he had known longer than some progressive members of Congress had been alive. But those same liberals in the House have been struck after more

Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos will not run for reelection in 2022 after a decade in office and disappointing Democrats in her 2020 performance as the chairwoman of the House Democratic campaign arm, she announced Friday. Bustos is one of seven House Democrats serving in districts former President Donald Trump carried in 2020. Her announcement came

Republicans have seized on a recent claim that former Secretary of State John Kerry told Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about Israeli strikes on Iranian interests in Syria. Zarif made the allegation in leaked audio, a claim which, if true, would undermine the US relationship with Israel. Though Kerry has flatly denied that any such

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is suing Interior Department officials including Secretary Deb Haaland for declining to grant a permit for a Fourth of July event including fireworks at Mount Rushmore this year, according to a news release from the governor’s office. “After telling us they’d ‘circle back,’ the Biden administration has not responded