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By Kevin Liptak, CNN Before he gave the order to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, President Joe Biden wanted to intimately understand where the al Qaeda leader was hiding. The US drone strike that killed Zawahiri on his balcony in downtown Kabul was the product of months of highly secret planning by Biden and a tight circle

By Shawna Mizelle, CNN A task force launched by the Justice Department last year to investigate threats against election workers looked at more than 1,000 contacts “reported as hostile or harassing” and said about 11% of those “met the threshold for a federal criminal investigation.” The findings were presented at a briefing on Monday with

By Dan Merica, CNN Two of Tuesday’s primaries in Washington state represent a key question for the Republican Party: 18 months removed from Donald Trump‘s second impeachment, has the GOP anger at party lawmakers who backed the effort subsided? Primary voters will answer that question for Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse, two of

By Eric Bradner, CNN Republican voters in several key swing states could select election deniers as their nominees for governorships and other top offices in primaries Tuesday. The issue is at the heart of high-profile races in Arizona and Michigan — two of the most important presidential battlegrounds — weeks after Republican voters elsewhere selected

By Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN A Michigan judge on Monday granted Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s request to temporarily block enforcement of the state’s pre-Roe abortion ban. Hours earlier, an appellate court said in a separate case that county officials were free to bring such prosecutions, concluding that a lower court’s ruling blocking enforcement

By Michael Warren and David Wright, CNN In the final days of Rep. Peter Meijer’s close fight for his party’s nomination, the Michigan Republican and his allies are slamming Democrats for meddling in Tuesday’s GOP primary. An outside group supporting Meijer — one of the 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald

By Ella Nilsen, CNN West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and Democratic leadership have agreed to advance a stalled natural gas pipeline in Manchin’s home region as part of a larger deal to reform federal environmental permitting, according to a one-page summary Manchin’s office shared with CNN. The permitting deal was struck between Manchin, Senate Majority

By Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, Natasha Bertrand, Maegan Vazquez, Donald Judd and Nick Paton Walsh, CNN The United States killed al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike, President Joe Biden said Monday in a speech from the White House. “I authorized a precision strike that would remove him from the battlefield, once and

By Whitney Wild and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Key House Democrats have issued a new call for the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general to recuse himself from a probe of missing Secret Service text messages after a CNN exclusive report showed investigators knew for more than a year texts had been erased. House Oversight Committee

By Holmes Lybrand Arian Taherzadeh, a Washington, DC man who impersonated a Department of Homeland Security agent while prosecutors say he ingratiated himself with federal agents through gifts and rent-free apartments, pleaded guilty on Monday and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department. The case, which put four Secret Service members on administrative leave and