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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN The Biden administration has had direct engagements with the Syrian government in an effort to secure the release of detained American Austin Tice, according to a source familiar and a senior administration official. There have been a number of direct interactions — none of which took place in Damascus — but

By Dan Berman, CNN Former President Donald Trump is reportedly nearing a decision on when to announce a 2024 bid to return to the White House, but his legal troubles continue to build — not just with the recent FBI search at Mar-a-Lago. Multiple federal and state investigations are ongoing regarding the January 6, 2021,

By Clare Foran and Kristin Wilson, CNN The House of Representatives voted Friday to pass Democrats’ $750 billion health care, energy and climate bill, in a significant victory for President Joe Biden and his party. The final vote was 220-207, along party lines. Four Republicans did not vote. Now that the Democratic-controlled House has approved

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN The FBI sought to locate classified documents related to nuclear weapons, among other items, when agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, this week, people familiar with the investigation told The Washington Post. The people did not offer additional details to the Post about “what type

By Avery Lotz, CNN A former Virginia police officer who was fired after breaching the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to more than seven years in prison. Thomas Robertson entered the Capitol with the first breach of rioters that day, prosecutors said, and marks the second

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Floyd Ray Roseberry, who allegedly threatened to detonate a bomb near the US Capitol almost one year ago, will be released from jail after a judge determined Thursday that he was suffering side effects from improper medication at the time of the incident. Roseberry, 50, suffers from mental health issues because

By Whitney Wild and Zachary Cohen, CNN A memo detailing how federal investigators believed the Secret Service was impeding them from obtaining key information about the agency’s response to January 6, 2021, was significantly altered to remove reference to nearly all those efforts before a final report was presented to lawmakers in June. The memo’s

By Devan Cole, Josh Campbell and Anna-Maja Rappard, CNN The new director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives took the agency’s helm last month at a time when gun violence and extremism are on the rise, putting him among a handful of top federal officials tasked with preventing and responding to high-profile

By Arlette Saenz, CNN Meghan Hays, a longtime communications aide to President Joe Biden, will depart her role as director of message planning at the White House later this month, CNN has learned. Hays, a special assistant to the president, has spent a total of eight years working for Biden, including during his vice presidency,

By Fredreka Schouten Federal election regulators voted Thursday to allow Google to proceed with a plan to make it easier for campaign emails to bypass spam filters. Google’s proposal to run a pilot project changing the filters for political emails came after intense Republican criticism that spam filters were biased against conservatives, a charge the

By Katie Lobosco, CNN The Internal Revenue Service is finally about to get the additional funding its officials have long been waiting for. The Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act calls for delivering nearly $80 billion to the IRS over 10 years. After months of negotiations over the sweeping spending package, the Senate passed the bill earlier