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A Ukrainian service member fires a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops near a front line in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region

Congress returns to a messy fall with Democrats ready to fight

By Sarah Ferris, Alison Main, CNN (CNN) — Congress is bracing for a politically bruising fall as lawmakers return to Washington on Tuesday, with massive fights upcoming on government funding, the Jeffrey Epstein files and President Donald Trump’s policing push. After a summer of simmering tensions on Trump’s nationwide deportations, National Guard deployment in Washington,

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Exclusive: Justice Amy Coney Barrett defends overturning Roe v. Wade and reveals Supreme Court dynamics in new book

By Joan Biskupic, CNN Chief Supreme Court Analyst (CNN) — Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett in a new memoir defends her vote reversing a half century of national abortion rights, declaring that Roe v. Wade usurped the will of the American people and “came at a cost.” “(T)he Court’s role is to respect the choices

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Volunteers and emergency crews tend to injured survivors in the Mazar Dara village

Taliban calls for foreign help after deadly Afghanistan earthquake. Here’s what we know

By Lex Harvey, Masoud Popalzai, Billy Stockwell, Helen Regan, Char Reck, and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have called for international help after a huge earthquake killed hundreds of people and leveled entire villages, piling further misery on the war-ravaged country that was already grappling with food shortages and cuts to

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Putin hails ‘unprecedentedly high’ relations with China as Gazprom says it signed new gas deal

By Simone McCarthy, Nectar Gan, Darya Tarasova, CNN Tianjin, China (CNN) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed a relationship with Beijing at an “unprecedentedly high level” on Tuesday, as the two countries reportedly inked a long-stalled agreement to build a massive new pipeline to send natural gas to China via Mongolia. Putin and Xi Jinping

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