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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Flights of Afghan refugees to the US were paused Friday after four cases of measles were discovered among Afghans who had recently arrived in the country. The White House said the halt was recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the four measles cases were diagnosed. “Operation

By Lauren Fox and Daniella Diaz, CNN Senate Democrats made their case Friday to include a path to legalization for millions of immigrants in their $3.5 trillion bill to expand the country’s social safety net. In a key meeting with the Senate’s parliamentarian, Elizabeth McDonough, Democrats argued for their plan to give roughly 8 million

By Veronica Stracqualursi and Pau Mosquera, CNN Former Venezuelan intelligence official Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, also known as “El Pollo,” was arrested on Thursday in Madrid for his alleged involvement in large-scale drug trafficking activities, the US Justice Department announced Friday. Carvajal Barrios, 61, was indicted last year in the Southern District of New York,

By Kate Sullivan, CNN A newly formed White House council to promote competition across the US economy and lower costs for American families is holding its first meeting on Friday in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. The White House will be rolling out a new website for this council, called the White House

By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director Twenty years after 9/11, the changes the attacks brought to American life still reverberate across political and demographic lines. A new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS finds that 57% of Americans say the attacks impacted the way they live their life today and 68% say the attacks had an

By Ryan Nobles, CNN Hundreds of law enforcement officials were briefed on the potential for violence on January 6 from protesters planning to attempt to interrupt the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory, and those officials discussed how to communicate in case of a “mass-casualty event,” according to an email obtained by a watchdog group.

By Betsy Klein and Kate Sullivan, CNN President Joe Biden challenged Republicans to test his new vaccine requirements in court Friday as he stressed his administration’s commitment to keeping students safe as he visited a Washington, DC, middle school on Friday. In a visit highlighting one part of his six-pronged plan to combat the pandemic,

By Erica Orden, CNN Igor Fruman, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, pleaded guilty Friday in New York federal court to a charge stemming from a case alleging he funneled foreign money to US campaign coffers. Fruman, 56, pleaded guilty to solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national. He faces up to five years in

By Daniel Dale, CNN Polls suggest California voters are poised to defeat an effort to recall the state’s Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom. The polls could be wrong or change fast. At present, though, their findings are entirely unremarkable. California has nearly twice as many registered Democrats as registered Republicans. Newsom was elected by almost 24

By Kate Sullivan, CNN Sen. Joe Biden was on the phone with his wife during his morning commute from Delaware to Washington, DC, when the second plane hit the World Trade Center. “Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.” “Jill, what is it?” “Another plane … the other tower.” Biden, then the chairman

By Clare Foran, CNN John Fetterman thinks Senate Democrats are making a big mistake. The party has a rare opportunity with a majority in Congress and control of the White House. But Fetterman, Pennsylvania’s lieutenant governor who is running for Senate, fears Democrats are wasting that opportunity by not eliminating the filibuster and failing to

By Tierney Sneed, CNN In its lawsuit challenging Texas six-week abortion ban, the Justice Department is throwing a Hail Mary pass to get over the procedural stumbling blocks that have thwarted other attempts to block the ban in court. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a federal court in Austin, relies on a novel strategy in

By Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN In the middle of chaos 20 years ago, Sen. Joe Biden wanted to get inside the US Capitol. That was the safest place to be on September 11, he argued when his daughter Ashley called him, pleading that he leave Washington as the terror attacks were unfolding. Blocked