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By Haley Britzky, Oren Liebermann and Jeremy Diamond, CNN The US government’s Afghanistan watchdog told lawmakers Wednesday that he cannot say with certainty that US aid to the country is “not currently funding the Taliban.” “While I agree, and we all agree Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian and economic situation, it is critical that our

By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter The Supreme Court cleared the way on Wednesday for Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed to seek post-conviction DNA evidence to try to prove his innocence. Reed claims an all-White jury wrongly convicted him of killing of Stacey Stites, a 19-year-old White woman, in Texas in 1998.

By Shania Shelton Francisco “Franky” Carrillo, who spent two decades behind bars and was featured in the Netflix series “The Innocence Files,” is launching a campaign on Wednesday for California congressional seat targeted by Democrats trying to win back the US House. As a 16-year-old, Carrillo was arrested for a drive-by shooting after police mistakenly

By Haley Britzky, CNN The Air Force unit to which the Air Guardsman who is suspected of leaking classified documents online was assigned is “not currently performing its assigned intelligence mission,” the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement. The secretary of the Air Force has directed the Air Force Inspector General to investigate the

By Sydney Kashiwagi, CNN Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra violated an ethics law that limits federal employees’ political activities when he stumped for Sen. Alex Padilla during the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ annual awards gala last year, the Office of Special Counsel has found. During his speech, Becerra, in his official capacity as HHS

By Melanie Zanona, Alayna Treene and Kristen Holmes, CNN While Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a meet-and-greet on Capitol Hill Tuesday evening, former President Donald Trump and his team aimed to be one step ahead — planning a dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort with members of the Florida congressional delegation just two days after the

By Maegan Vazquez, Manu Raju, Nicky Robertson and Ted Barrett, CNN President Joe Biden‘s pick to be the next labor secretary, Julie Su, has yet to secure the support of key Democrats ahead of her nomination hearing on Thursday, suggesting she faces an uphill battle to confirmation by the Senate. The tepid reception among some

By Eric Bradner and Jeff Zeleny, CNN Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and environmental lawyer, described himself as a truth-teller who will “end the division” as he launched his bid for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday in Boston. Kennedy used his campaign launch speech to lambast school and business closures during

By Betsy Klein, CNN Aya Ibrahim’s phone is lighting up. The Biden administration senior adviser is in a 90-member group text with other Muslim American staffers, and during this holy month of Ramadan, it’s lively. The group chat, Ibrahim said, is a critical refuge for her and her colleagues, in a personal capacity, to connect

By Lauren del Valle and Kara Scannell, CNN A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office for a temporary restraining order to stop a House Judiciary Committee subpoena of former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz. District Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil said Pomerantz must appear for a deposition as the House

By Jeremy Herb and Hannah Rabinowitz, CNN A detention hearing for the Air National Guardsman who is accused of posting a trove of classified documents to social media was postponed on Wednesday after a judge granted a request from lawyers involved in the case to have additional time. Prosecutors and defense lawyers jointly requested that

By Tierney Sneed, CNN All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it could say at any moment before midnight Friday how it will handle a blockbuster medication abortion case that landed on its doorstep late last week. The Supreme Court is deciding whether to let lower court rulings that would restrict access to a

By Nikki Carvajal and Donald Judd, CNN The fraught politics of tax season have been met by the White House with a perhaps surprising response: a welcoming embrace. The Biden administration has moved this week to elevate the moment, making the case that President Joe Biden’s law that surged $80 billion to the Internal Revenue

By CNN President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday released their 2022 tax returns. Read Biden’s and Harris’ tax returns here. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2023 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.