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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN A 57-year-old Ukrainian woman from Kherson testified to US lawmakers that Russian forces beat her, threatened to rape her and forced her to dig her own grave. Lyubov’s story was one of two powerful and horrific testimonies shared with House Foreign Affairs Committee members at a hearing about Russian war crimes

By Phil Mattingly, CNN Chief White House correspondent White House officials have spent weeks engaged in skirmishes with House Republicans over the looming debt ceiling battle. Those skirmishes have now expanded into an all-out war. President Joe Biden’s economic speech in Maryland on Wednesday, which leveled a series of policy and political attacks at House

By Zachary Cohen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN Boris Epshteyn, an attorney and adviser to Donald Trump, is scheduled to be interviewed on Thursday by federal prosecutors working for special counsel Jack Smith, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Epshteyn worked as a special assistant to then-President Trump at the White House, advised Trump

By Sara Murray and Evan Perez, CNN An IRS supervisory special agent who claims to have information about alleged mishandling and political interference in the ongoing criminal probe into Hunter Biden is seeking whistleblower protections to share the information with Congress, according to a letter obtained by CNN. “Despite serious risks of retaliation, my client

By Holmes Lybrand The Proud Boys defendant accused of breaking open the window that rioters first used to storm the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, told a federal jury this week that he wanted to take responsibility for his actions but also blamed police officers for agitating the crowd that day. Dominic Pezzola, who

By Jeremy Diamond and Arlette Saenz, CNN Top Democratic donors and fundraisers have been invited to meet with President Joe Biden in Washington next week as he nears a likely 2024 reelection announcement, two people familiar with the matter told CNN. The huddle with top donors is the latest signal that Biden is ramping up

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday temporarily extended a hold on a lower court ruling that would have imposed restrictions on access to an abortion drug, a move meant to give the justices more time to consider the issue. In a similar order last week, Alito

By Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said Wednesday that the United States government has gained “vitally important” intelligence about the war in Ukraine from a surveillance law that allows the government to collect foreign communications without a warrant. The law, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enables the US government

By Steve Contorno, CNN Florida’s state education board voted Wednesday to ban teaching students about sexual orientation and gender identity through high school, expanding the scope of a contentious state law that last year thrust Gov. Ron DeSantis to the forefront of the cultural clash over classrooms. The law DeSantis signed last year prohibited the

By Jeremy Herb, CNN The US government is tracking more than 650 potential cases of so-called “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly known as UFOs, according to the director of the office created last year to focus on the sightings. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee Wednesday

CNN By Tierney Sneed The US manufacturer of the generic version of a medication abortion drug sued the Biden administration Wednesday, the latest legal development in the dramatic court fight over abortion pills. The company GenBioPro alleges that the US Food and Drug Administration has violated the Constitution’s Due Process Clause and other laws in

By Tierney Sneed The US manufacturer of the generic version of a medication abortion drug sued the Biden administration Wednesday, the latest legal development in the dramatic court fight over abortion pills. The company GenBioPro alleges that the US Food and Drug Administration has violated the Constitution’s Due Process Clause and other laws in how

By Steve Contorno, CNN Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political allies overseeing Disney’s special taxing district threatened on Wednesday to hike taxes, raise utility rates and develop land around the entertainment giant’s Central Florida theme parks as retribution for the company’s efforts to avoid a state takeover. In a meeting full of harsh words for one of

By Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was released from jail on Wednesday after serving roughly four months for his role in a decade-long tax fraud scheme. Weisselberg, who remains loyal to former President Donald Trump, was sentenced in January to five months in jail as part

By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Republican attorneys general in Arkansas, Iowa and Missouri this week asked a federal appeals court to overturn the Biden administration’s new cybersecurity regulations for water facilities, calling the requirements overly burdensome and a violation of state sovereignty. It’s one of the biggest legal challenges yet to the Biden administration’s embrace of