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A former CIA employee charged with carrying out the largest leak of classified data in the agency's history was convicted on all counts in federal court Wednesday.

A statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune has officially replaced a statue of a Confederate general in the US Capitol's Statuary Hall.

Former President Barack Obama sent an email to Ronny Jackson, a former White House physician who went on to become a GOP congressman, expressing his "disappointment" over Jackson's criticism of Joe Biden's cognitive health in 2020, according to a copy of the email obtained by CNN.

Michigan's Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order on Wednesday that limits her office from extraditing people to or from Michigan if they're facing criminal charges for obtaining, providing or assisting an abortion.

While Covid-19 began to feel like an afterthought to many Americans, a new variant snuck up on the US and is now driving up infection and hospitalization rates. The new subvariant of Omicron, BA.5, shows how the virus continues to evolve around the best efforts of humanity to defeat it.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is aiming to quash a subpoena for his testimony before an Atlanta-area special grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

Almost a year ago to the day, I wrote a piece with this headline: "Nancy Pelosi just doomed the already tiny chances of the 1/6 committee actually mattering."

The Montgomery County Police says it will begin enforcing a Maryland law against disturbing the peace after more than two months of regular protests outside the homes of US Supreme Court justices.

The Pentagon carried out successful tests of two different hypersonic missiles systems recently, the US Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Wednesday.

Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Wednesday had a blunt message about stalled legislation that would address a critical shortage in semiconductor chips.

Midway through Tuesday's January 6 committee hearing, Ivanka Trump made an appearance.

Three Americans were detained in Venezuela earlier this year, including Los Angeles-based lawyer Eyvin Hernandez, a Venezuelan legal source told CNN.

The Biden administration has a plan to slow interest from adding to borrowers' federal student loan debt balances.

The ongoing attempt to distort the assault on multiracial democracy has reminded scholars of the leviathan disinformation campaign that began during the Reconstruction era.

In an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday, John Bolton, who served as national security adviser under former President Donald Trump, made an interesting argument: Trump and those around him simply weren't sophisticated enough for the January 6 riot at the US Capitol to be rightly read as a coup attempt.

President Joe Biden was greeted in Israel on Wednesday by a row of Israeli leaders offering open palms to the President.

The latest hearing from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection fleshed out the links between former President Donald Trump and the far-right extremist groups that were at the vanguard of the violent effort to stop the transition of power and keep him in office, despite his election loss.

A member of the US Secret Service Counter Assault Team was detained by the Israeli national police in Jerusalem this week after he allegedly assaulted a woman outside of a bar, a source tells CNN, and the Secret Service says the agent is on his way back to the US.

As their final act nears, the House January 6 hearings have evolved from documenting a stain on history to warning of a violent and tyrannical future that awaits if Donald Trump is allowed to again unleash America's pent-up extremism.

As President Joe Biden arrived here on Wednesday, he is doing something he has never done on a foreign trip: Embracing one of his predecessor's legacy achievements.