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By Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden said he had raised human rights and cyberattacks during a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that provided an early and critical test of his diplomatic skills in the highest-stakes talks of his long career. Both Biden and Putin afterward described the three-hour-long summit

Fiona Hill, former President Trump’s top Russia adviser, talks to CNN’s Don Lemon about the summit with Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018.

By Paul LeBlanc Fiona Hill, once then-President Donald Trump’s top Russia adviser, said Tuesday evening that she was so alarmed during Trump’s 2018 press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin that she had looked for a fire alarm to pull and considered faking a medical emergency. “I just thought, let’s cut this off and try

By Michael Warren Alabama pastor Ed Litton will be the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention following a narrow election win Tuesday — a victory for the more moderate establishment against a conservative insurgency in an ongoing fight within the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. The vote comes as the SBC has been grappling with

By Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, CNN Members of the House Intelligence Committee will receive a classified briefing on Wednesday morning on one of the most controversial topics circulating in Washington today: UFOs. The briefing, which was confirmed to CNN by two sources familiar with the committee’s plans, comes just weeks before the US

By Gregory Wallace, CNN A federal court blocked, for now, the Biden administration’s pause on oil and gas leasing. The preliminary injunction issued Tuesday comes as a blow to one of the administration’s key actions to address climate change. The court sided with more than a dozen states that sued after President Joe Biden directed

By Annie Grayer and Kristin Wilson, CNN Despite the House and Senate coming to an agreement that will award the Congressional Gold Medal to the officers who defended the Capitol, 21 House Republicans voted against the legislation Tuesday, the latest reminder that members of Congress still cannot agree on the facts of the deadly January

By Dianne Gallagher and Paul LeBlanc, CNN Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania are the latest to push new state-level voting restrictions, with a key state House committee on Tuesday advancing a major election overhaul bill that the state’s Democratic governor blasted as “extreme.” “Pennsylvania had a free, fair and secure election in November 2020 with record

By Michael Conte, CNN The US Navy’s highest-ranking officer pushed back strongly against what he called efforts by two Republican congressmen to portray the US military as “weak” and “woke” in a hearing on Tuesday. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday’s comments came during a House Armed Services budget hearing as Reps. Doug Lamborn

By Jessica Dean and Manu Raju, CNN Bipartisan talks on overhauling America’s policing practices are hung up on a key issue: Whether Congress should include new standards for when officers can be charged with crimes. The issue has dogged the two sides for weeks — and it’s far from clear how the matter will get

By Jeremy Herb and Christina Carrega, CNN US Capitol Police, Washington Metropolitan Police and local officials requested support from the DC National Guard 12 times on January 6 while the Capitol was under attack, the House Oversight Committee Democrats said Tuesday. RELATED: Meet the internet sleuths tracking down the January 6 insurrectionists Democrats on the

By Manu Raju and Clare Foran, CNN Senate Democratic leaders, facing skepticism from liberals about the direction of bipartisan infrastructure talks, plan to formally begin a process that would allow them to pass President Joe Biden’s signature policy agenda along straight party lines. The move is meant to placate progressives who are concerned their priorities

By Geneva Sands, CNN The Biden administration is expanding eligibility for the Central American Minors program, which affords certain at-risk children in the region the opportunity to apply to resettle in the US, the Departments of State and Homeland Security announced Tuesday. This expansion is part of the second phase of the program, which was

By Tami Luhby, CNN In what may be the first lawsuit aimed at stopping GOP-led states from terminating pandemic unemployment benefits early, jobless workers in Indiana are challenging Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb’s decision to cease the payments — including the $300 weekly federal boost — at the end of this week. In the lawsuit, filed

By Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced his nominees to serve as ambassadors to Israel, Mexico, NATO and several other posts, including Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III to represent the United States on an international civil aviation safety board. On the eve of his summit in Geneva with Russian

By Kate Sullivan, CNN The White House will host a celebration for thousands of essential workers and military families on July Fourth on the South Lawn to mark America’s “independence from the virus,” according to a White House official. The celebration, which will be the largest in-person White House event since President Joe Biden took

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN When US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin gather for their highly anticipated summit in Geneva on Wednesday, it will come at a time that both leaders say is a low point for relations between their two countries. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, a joint press conference following the summit is

By Jeremy Herb, CNN A previously secret trove of emails released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee sheds new light on how former President Donald Trump pressured the Justice Department on multiple fronts to do his bidding in his quest to overturn the 2020 election results. The emails show how Trump’s efforts to pressure Jeffrey

Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a policy address to announce President Joe Biden’s first national strategy to combat domestic terrorism.