National Politics

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN The White House called on Russia to do more to crack down on ransomware groups operating from the country but conceded that Moscow has taken “some steps” after President Joe Biden urged his Russian counterpart to tackle the groups in the summer. A senior administration official told reporters that the US

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The United States plans to ease restrictions on travel for fully vaccinated visitors from Canada and Mexico starting in early November, relaxing bans that have been in place for more than 18 months, according to senior administration officials. The new rules, which are similar to those announced for international air passengers,

By Kylie Atwood, CNN More than a dozen US officials who work at the US Embassy in Colombia and their family members have reported symptoms consistent with “Havana syndrome” in recent weeks, according to a US official and a source familiar with the situation. Some officials who reported symptoms in Colombia had to be medevaced

By Alex Rogers, Manu Raju and Lauren Fox, CNN Less than 24 hours after saying most House Democrats wanted to do “fewer things well,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shifted her message on Tuesday, saying she hoped they wouldn’t have to drop any proposed programs as they try to shrink the size of their $3.5 trillion

By Paul LeBlanc and Amy Simonson, CNN The Florida Health Department has levied a $3.5 million fine against Leon County for violating the state’s ban on vaccine passports. The county was in “blatant violation of the law,” the state Health Department said in a statement, outlining a fine of $3,570,000 because the Leon County government

By Oren Liebermann, CNN The Pentagon is in the dark about the vaccine status of hundreds of thousands of its civilian employees just weeks before the deadline to fully vaccinate its workforce against Covid-19. The Pentagon has made significant progress vaccinating the military’s active-duty force but according to Defense Department data, the Pentagon has not

By Tierney Sneed Texas’ six-week abortion ban is likely to stay in force at least for a few more days, if not longer, with a federal appeals court signaling Tuesday that the end of the week would be the earliest it would take its next big step in the ongoing litigation. After a federal judge

By Jeremy Herb and Sara Murray, CNN Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry is under renewed scrutiny after a Senate report released last week provided fresh details about Perry’s role in helping former President Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 election. The report from the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats zeroes in on Perry as a

By Kate Bennett, CNN Hillary Clinton has added yet another job to her lengthy résumé: fiction writer. Tuesday marks the release of Clinton’s novel, “State of Terror,” written with veteran crime novelist Louise Penny. Clinton, who has penned several nonfiction books on her own over the last many years, this time tapped into her creative

By Jasmine Wright, CNN The White House says it did not select the child actors who appeared in a YouTube-original video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris, responding to criticism from conservative media and politicians that the use of the actors was deceptive. In a video posted last week, Harris participated in a YouTube Originals Kids