National Politics

By Marshall Cohen The so-called “QAnon Shaman” who stormed the US Capitol in a horned bearskin outfit pleaded guilty Friday to a felony for obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6. The defendant, Jacob Chansley of Arizona, is a well-known figure in the QAnon movement. He went viral after the January 6 attack because

By Paul P. Murphy, CNN County administrators in Colorado have opened an investigation into an election official after employees complained she was pressuring them not to cooperate with a joint local, state and federal criminal investigation into an election system security breach discovered last month, a source told CNN. Deputy clerk Belinda Knisley of the

By Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden said Friday the Texas state law that bans abortion after as early as six weeks into pregnancy is “almost un-American,” pointing specifically to a provision allowing individuals to take civil action against people who help a woman get an abortion. Biden told reporters at the White House he has asked the

By Priscilla Alvarez and Michael Warren, CNN Stephen Miller seemed floored by the idea, raised during a fall Cabinet meeting in 2018, of  keeping open the doors for Afghan allies and other Middle East refugees to enter the US. “What do you guys want?” Miller, then a top adviser to President Donald Trump, asked incredulously, according to

By Kaitlan Collins, Kevin Liptak, Jamie Gumbrecht, Jacqueline Howard and Arlette Saenz, CNN The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine booster plan remains on track for the week of September 20, according to a source familiar with the discussion, but it may take a few weeks longer to move forward with boosters of Moderna’s vaccine. There have been

By CNN In a letter provided to CNN, more than three dozen House Democrats — ranging from some of the most liberal to some of the most moderate — are seeking information from Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the more than 116,000 people who were evacuated from Afghanistan. Read the letter, obtained by CNN,

In a letter provided to CNN, more than three dozen House Democrats — ranging from some of the most liberal to some of the most moderate — are seeking information from Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the more than 116,000 people who were evacuated from Afghanistan. Read the letter, obtained by CNN, below: The-CNN-Wire™

By Annie Grayer, CNN More than 100 Democratic lawmakers in the House from all wings of the caucus introduced legislation on Friday to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60. This legislation comes as Democrats are working to expand Medicare benefits through their multi-trillion-dollar spending proposal being used to fulfill much of President Joe Biden’s

By Zachary Cohen, Manu Raju and Jennifer Hansler, CNN An ideologically diverse group of Democrats is pushing Secretary of State Antony Blinken to take specific steps toward helping thousands of individuals still seeking to leave Afghanistan, underscoring the widespread concern still lingering in Congress over the evacuation effort from the war-torn country. In a letter

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