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By Kate Sullivan and Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Friday tried to put an optimistic face on the chaotic evacuations taking place at Kabul’s airport as American forces scramble to remove US citizens and vulnerable Afghans from Afghanistan. In remarks at the White House, Biden sought to project calm at the end of

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US military cargo plane whose hold was filled with Afghans evacuating their country captured in a now famous photo flew more than 800 people on board, far more than originally confirmed by the US Air Force, according to the crew who flew the mission. The C-17 US military cargo plane

By Gregory Krieg, CNN As the number of new coronavirus cases in his state soars, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is betting that an aggressive campaign against mandatory mask-wearing in schools will harden the Republican base ahead of his expected re-election bid next year — and make him a GOP star nationwide as the party’s 2024

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN A former Trump administration official said Thursday evening that the Biden administration’s decision to stick with the US’ 2020 agreement with the Taliban is “why we are where we are now” and that the US has “literally pulled the rug out from under the Afghans.” “The Biden administration had an opportunity

By Christina Carrega, Marshall Cohen and Tierney Sneed, CNN The Justice Department has charged Capitol bomb threat suspect Floyd Ray Roseberry with threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to use an explosive device, a judge said Friday. The charges were unsealed during Roseberry’s first court appearance in DC District Court. Roseberry,

By Priscilla Alvarez and Geneva Sands, CNN The Biden administration is ramping up efforts to process the influx of Afghans rushing to flee Afghanistan as the Taliban overtakes the country. In recent days, administration officials worked overtime to pull lists of names of special immigrant visa applicants to push through systems and get security checks

By Natasha Bertrand, Zachary Cohen and Kylie Atwood, CNN While the US State Department continues to engage in high-level diplomatic talks with the Taliban in the neutral setting of Doha, Qatar, as it has for the past year, the real negotiations have moved to the chaotic streets of Kabul in recent days, where American military

By Andrew Kaczynski, Em Steck and Drew Myers, CNN “Glass ceiling? Ha! What glass ceiling? Women, women exaggerate the problem of sexism,” radio host Larry Elder said in a 1996 ad for his radio show. Then a hand slaps him across the face. “Blacks exaggerate the significance of racism,” Elder adds. Another slap. “Medicare should

By Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz The sentencing for one of the January 6 US Capitol rioters was abruptly postponed Wednesday after new videos emerged of the man allegedly fighting with police, an unexpected twist in the case because prosecutors hadn’t previously accused him of committing violence that day. Robert Reeder of Maryland was charged

By Daniel Dale, CNN President Joe Biden sat down with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday for an interview that focused on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Biden made some inaccurate claims in the interview — which was released in part on Wednesday and in full on Thursday — plus some other claims that,

By Whitney Wild, Lauren Fox, Daniella Diaz and Annie Grayer, CNN A man with a history of supporting former President Donald Trump and who has said “all Democrats need to step down” was arrested Thursday after an hours-long standoff near the US Capitol during which he claimed to have an explosive device. Police have identified

By Kate Sullivan, Allie Malloy and Kaitlan Collins, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday he doesn’t believe the Taliban have changed, as the people of Afghanistan and the international community wait to see how the militants who have seized control of Afghanistan will govern. “I think they’re going through sort of an existential crisis about

By Ellie Kaufman, Nicole Gaouette, Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN The US military has increased the pace of evacuations to help Afghans and US citizens escape Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Thursday, but it is still not filling flights to capacity despite a directive from President Joe Biden that he doesn’t want to see any

By Kate Sullivan and Jason Hoffman, CNN White House officials on Wednesday insisted the US could begin offering Covid-19 booster shots to fully vaccinated Americans in the fall while also continuing its efforts to help vaccinate the rest of the world, stressing the importance of doing both simultaneously to end the global pandemic. “Look, I

By Tami Luhby, CNN Nearly 107 million US households — about 61% — owed no federal income tax in 2020, a huge spike from pre-pandemic times. But that increase should be short-lived. The coronavirus-fueled upheaval in the economy, which cost more than 20 million jobs in April 2020, and the sweeping federal relief packages drove

By Jasmine Wright and Arlette Saenz, CNN Vice President Kamala Harris faces a steep challenge next week when she travels to Singapore and Vietnam, as a once-low-risk trip to friendly nations comes at the same time as a bungled US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Harris will have dual responsibilities largely unfamiliar to her in the seven

By Kate Sullivan and Allie Malloy, CNN President Joe Biden said Thursday he doesn’t believe the Taliban have changed, as the people of Afghanistan and the international community wait to see how the militants who have seized control of Afghanistan will govern. “I think they’re going through sort of an existential crisis about do they

By Jeremy Herb, Lauren Fox, Ryan Nobles and Alex Rogers, CNN Congressional Democrats are preparing a series of hearings on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan amid rising anger about the Biden administration’s handling of the end of the war, with the Taliban rapidly taking control and the US chaotically scrambling to evacuate Americans and vulnerable

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN The Biden administration has proposed a federal regulation that would overhaul the asylum system in an attempt to settle claims at a faster pace and help alleviate the immigration court backlog, the departments of Homeland Security and Justice announced Wednesday. The proposed rule would give asylum officers more authority by allowing

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Lobbyists, lawmakers and border mayors are imploring the Biden administration to ease restrictions on nonessential travel put in place 18 months ago at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. But officials haven’t budged even as other countries gradually open to Americans. A tangled web of Covid-19 border restrictions has limited who

By Jeremy Herb, Natasha Bertrand, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Evan Perez, CNN The Biden administration is still struggling to answer basic questions about whether it can successfully evacuate tens of thousands of Americans and vulnerable Afghans in a race against a ticking clock ahead of the US military’s August 31 Afghanistan withdrawal date. On

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that he was concerned that then-President Donald Trump “undermined” the US’ 2020 agreement with the Taliban by pushing for US forces to leave Afghanistan without the Taliban meeting the conditions of the deal. The Trump administration’s “Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan” outlined a

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has tested positive for Covid-19, his office said Tuesday. Abbott, a Republican, is fully vaccinated against the virus, his office said in a statement, adding that he is tested daily and this is his first positive result. He is currently isolated in the governor’s mansion and is