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By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter More than 20 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Supreme Court seemed receptive Wednesday to claims from the Biden administration that it can shield information pertaining to the detention of Abu Zubaydah, a former associate of Osama bin Laden who was subject to enhanced interrogation techniques

By Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav, Ted Barrett and Manu Raju, CNN Democrats and Republicans remain locked in a stalemate over how to raise the nation’s debt limit ahead of a deadline later this month, but in a significant development Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell publicly floated two potential options to avert a default. The

By Jeremy Herb, CNN In the days before Rep. Adam Schiff became then-President Donald Trump’s chief congressional nemesis, Trump praised the man who would go on to epitomize his toxic relationship with Democrats on Capitol Hill. “You know, you do a good job,” Trump told Schiff in the Oval Office in March 2017, according to

By Carma Hassan and Josh Campbell, CNN An extraordinary public feud between Idaho’s two top leaders escalated on Tuesday when the state’s governor, Brad Little, accused fellow Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin of overstepping her authority by ordering the state National Guard to the US-Mexico border while he was in Texas visiting the border.McGeachin, who

By Chandelis Duster and Nicole Gaouette, CNN In a reversal from the Trump administration, the State Department revealed the number of nuclear weapons in the US stockpile for the first time in four years on Tuesday. The US has 3,750 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and 2,000 are waiting to be dismantled, according to a

By Betsy Klein and Maegan Vazquez, CNN It’s about to get faster, easier and cheaper to get an at-home Covid-19 test, the Biden administration says. The administration is set to boost Covid-19 testing in the US by announcing an additional investment in at-home rapid tests. White House Covid-19 coordinator Jeff Zients announced on Wednesday a

By Liz Stark, CNN The US Department of Education announced major changes Wednesday to a federal student loan forgiveness program that the agency says could bring relief to more than 550,000 borrowers working in government and nonprofit sectors, including around 22,000 borrowers who will automatically be eligible for student loan forgiveness without needing to take

By Oren Liebermann and Natasha Bertrand, CNN The ISIS-K suicide bomber who carried out a terrorist attack at Kabul international airport in late August, killing 13 US service members and dozens of Afghans, had been released from a prison near Kabul just days earlier when the Taliban took control of the area, according to three

By Rachel Janfaza, CNN Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — who warned of the dangers of fascism following the insurrection at the US Capitol last winter — said he feels the events of Nazi Germany mirror “what happens to when people are being lied to about the elections.” “This is so much kind of a

By Tami Luhby, CNN Free community college. Universal pre-K. Dental benefits for senior citizens. Paid family leave. Which ones will survive? President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats now face the daunting task of paring their $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation plan, which contains all these measures and more, to appease the moderate wing of their party.

By Maeve Reston, CNN Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley excoriated President Joe Biden’s handling of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan on Tuesday, becoming the latest potential 2024 contender to grace the stage at the Ronald Reagan Library as the GOP looks to chart its course after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.

By Raja Razek and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Missouri executed death row inmate Ernest Johnson on Tuesday after the US Supreme Court rejected a petition earlier in the day that had sought to delay it, citing an intellectual disability. Johnson — who was convicted of robbing a gas station and murdering three clerks nearly 27 years