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By Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department ordered the departure of non-essential staff and family members at its embassy in Riyadh, a move that comes amid intensifying strikes on Saudi Arabia by the Iran allied Houthi rebels in Yemen. “The U.S. Department of State issued an ordered departure for non-emergency

CNN By Patrick Svitek, Lauren Fox, CNN Wharton, Ohio (CNN) — Some leading Ohio Republicans began distancing themselves from a controversial new ad from their gubernatorial nominee, Vivek Ramaswamy, even as the president and vice president defended it. Vice President JD Vance warned Republicans on Wednesday not to break ranks over the commercial, telling them

By Jason Morris, Gabe Cohen, Nicky Robertson, CNN Whitfield County, Georgia (CNN) — On his nationwide campaign swing for Republicans, President Donald Trump traveled to Dalton, the self-proclaimed “Carpet Capital of the World,” last week and revived a familiar falsehood: that Georgia’s past elections were rigged. In the rural manufacturing hub, democracy was humming. More

By Kaanita Iyer, MJ Lee, CNN (CNN) — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Wednesday filed a civil lawsuit against two of Jeffrey Epstein’s closest advisers, accusing them of having “facilitated and concealed” Epstein’s crimes. The advisers, Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, have faced scrutiny over their ties to the late sex offender since

By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The State Department is publicly warning Americans about violent crime in parts of Latin America, but privately, it has given asylum officers new assessments arguing that conditions in some of those same countries are no more dangerous than in some US cities, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN.

By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from suspending hormone therapy and other treatments for transgender Americans in federal prisons, a rare win for transgender rights at the conservative high court. The court handed down a one-sentence order that did not explain the decision. “This is a

By Zachary Cohen, Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — The Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potentially use it in operations at the southern US border, according to a memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month and obtained by CNN. The

By Jennifer Agiesta, Ariel Edwards-Levy, Edward Wu, CNN (CNN) — The Democratic Party, riding a tide of anti-Donald Trump sentiment, enters the final stretch of the midterm campaign with a 10-point advantage over Republicans nationwide in voters’ choice in their own congressional district, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS. More than three-quarters