National Politics

By Rodrigo Pedroso, Michael Warren and Samantha Beech, CNN Jason Miller, a former senior adviser to Donald Trump, said he was briefly detained and questioned by Brazilian authorities in the country’s capital on Tuesday. Miller said he was at the airport in Brasilia when he and members of his traveling party were questioned for three

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN Five alleged 9/11 plotters, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who has been called the mastermind behind the September 11 terrorist attacks, appeared in a military court for a pretrial hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday. All five are accused of having some involvement with planning and executing the 2001 terror attacks.

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration is adjusting guidance for Afghan children who arrived in the US without a parent to allow them to stay with the adult they traveled with, according to guidance obtained by CNN. The guidance, issued by the Health and Human Services Department over the weekend, outlines steps to avoid

By Katie Lobosco, CNN Democrats, following the lead of President Joe Biden, are planning to include free community college in a massive spending plan that party leaders are hoping to pass by the end of the month — and such a major federal investment could provide a much-needed jolt to the nation’s two-year colleges after

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, said Tuesday that her husband’s assassin “should not have the opportunity to terrorize again” after he was recommended for parole last month. “Our family and our country suffered an unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man,” Kennedy, 93, said in a

By Maeve Reston, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his allies have spent the past few weeks ahead of Tuesday’s recall making one direct pitch to Democratic voters — “Vote no and go” — asking them to vote “no” on ousting Newsom and send their ballots back without bothering to answer the second question about

By Betsy Klein, Ella Nilsen, Priscilla Alvarez, Nikki Carvajal and Manu Raju, CNN The Biden administration is asking for billions of dollars for “urgent” extreme weather recovery efforts and the resettlement of Afghan refugees in its proposal to keep the government funded past September 30. In a Tuesday afternoon call with reporters, administration officials detailed

By Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday rebuffed a demand from Sen. Joe Manchin to take a “strategic pause” on a $3.5 trillion economic package, making clear that she was moving on an aggressive timeline to push the measure through this month and setting up a clash with moderate

By Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The communications director for a senior Democratic senator pushed back on comments from Secretary of State Antony Blinken about charter flights that have been grounded for days in the north of Afghanistan, as uncertainty over the militant group’s promises to let Americans leave Afghanistan continued to

By Zachary Cohen, CNN Howard University canceled classes Tuesday as it continues to investigate a ransomware attack on the school’s network, according to an interim update on the situation posted by the university, which is in Washington, DC. The university’s information technology team detected “unusual activity” on the network last week and shut it down

By Kate Sullivan and Betsy Klein, CNN President Joe Biden will travel to California “early next week” to campaign for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom ahead of the September 14 recall election, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday. Newsom is attempting to stave off a Republican-backed effort to oust him, which is motivated in part

By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday signed into law a bill that bans 24-hour and drive-thru voting, imposes new hurdles on mail-in ballots and empowers partisan poll watchers. The restrictive voting measure adds Texas to the list of Republican-controlled states that have seized on former President Donald Trump’s lies about

By Eric Bradner, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Tuesday a bill that imposes a raft of new restrictions on voting in one of the nation’s fastest-growing and diversifying states. Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 after the Republican-led Legislature approved it during the second special session that the second-term GOP governor had called

By Kate Bennett, CNN Of all the educators returning to classrooms in person this fall, only one will be ferried there by a motorcade of Secret Service vehicles that depart from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. First lady Jill Biden on Tuesday starts her 13-week teaching session at the Alexandria, Virginia, campus of Northern Virginia Community College

By Joe Sutton and Rob Frehse, CNN The Human Rights Campaign has terminated its president Alphonso David following an investigation last month over his actions while assisting former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was responding to an allegation of sexual harassment, according to a statement from the HRC. In a response on social media,

By Ella Nilsen, CNN As Democratic lawmakers begin crafting a massive $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation package this week, a coalition of prominent environmental groups is asking them to include between $577 billion and $746 billion for key climate provisions. In a letter delivered to members of Congress on Tuesday and shared exclusively with CNN, groups