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By Donald Judd, CNN White House Domestic Policy Adviser Susan Rice will leave her administration post next month, an official tells CNN, marking one of the Biden administration’s highest-profile departures as the president’s domestic agenda stalls in a divided Congress. Rice’s final day will be May 26, the official said. NBC News first reported her

By Jennifer Hansler and Donald Judd, CNN US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced that the warring factions in Sudan agreed to a a ceasefire, “starting at midnight on April 24, to last for 72 hours.” The agreement between the Sudanese Armed Forces, or SAF, and the Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, came

By Paula Reid and Annie Grayer, CNN Hunter Biden’s lawyer is asking for the Treasury Department’s inspector general and the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch inquiries as part of a broader aggressive strategy to strike back at detractors of President Joe Biden’s son. Abbe David Lowell, the lawyer for Hunter Biden, sent a letter

By Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Elizabeth Whelan — the sister of Paul Whelan, an American who has been detained in Russia for more than four years — attended the UN Security Council meeting that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired on Monday. “I am here to tell Russia: free Paul Whelan,” Elizabeth Whelan

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN Jurors will begin deliberating Monday morning in the case against former Fugees member Pras Michel, who the Justice Department has accused of being the linchpin of an international, multimillion-dollar conspiracy. The three-week trial featured testimony from a diverse cast, including Leonardo DiCaprio and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and took members

By Phil Mattingly, Kevin Liptak and Jeremy Diamond, CNN President Joe Biden’s advisers are moving quickly to finalize staffing and operational details of his reelection campaign ahead of what’s widely expected to be a bruising 19-month effort to convince the public of his accomplishments and his ability to serve well into his eighties. Biden returned

By Kevin Liptak, Jeff Zeleny, Jeremy Diamond and Phil Mattingly, CNN President Joe Biden is poised to name Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a senior White House adviser, to oversee his reelection campaign, two senior Democratic advisers tell CNN — a decision that paves the way for his announcement as early as this week that he’s seeking

By Sam Fossum and Shawna Mizelle, CNN Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he will follow precedent for replacing Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Judiciary Committee if she resigns, signaling a willingness to vote to replace the California Democrat if she left the chamber altogether. “If she does resign, I would be in the

By Dana Bash, CNN Some 10,000 people from all over the world gathered last week in Poland for the annual March of the Living, a 2-mile walk from Auschwitz to Birkenau, where Nazis murdered over a million civilians — mostly Jews — during World War II. One of the most famous marchers was Meek Mill,

By Melanie Zanona, Annie Grayer and Lauren Fox, CNN House Republicans are abandoning a years-long push by their party to pass a federal abortion ban and are exploring other ways to advance their anti-abortion agenda — a remarkable shift that underscores how the GOP is wrestling with an issue that has become a political landmine

By Jennifer Hansler and Kylie Atwood, CNN For Yulia Laputina, Ukraine’s Minister of Veterans Affairs, a visit to Arlington National Cemetery was a deeply moving experience. “I really appreciated this incredible memorializing and respect for the people who defended your country,” Laputina, who is a veteran herself, told CNN Thursday. Ukraine plans to draw inspiration

By Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood, Haley Britzky and Oren Liebermann, CNN President Joe Biden on Saturday said that US government personnel had been evacuated from Sudan. “Today, on my orders, the United States military conducted an operation to extract US government personnel from Khartoum,” Biden said in a statement. In a separate statement, US Secretary

By Sydney Kashiwagi and Camila Bernal, CNN Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz is expected to sign a series of bills that would further enshrine the right to abortion and gender-affirming care into state law while banning so-called conversion therapy. The Democratic-led state Senate passed three bills Friday after their Democratic colleagues in the House advanced