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In a stern rebuke of former Vice President Mike Pence, the conservative former judge who advised Pence on how to handle the January 6, 2021, election certification vote is now warning of both the legal and political consequences of Pence's plan to fight the grand jury subpoena by special counsel Jack Smith.

A year of unprecedented, US-led sanctions designed to isolate one of the world's largest economies has left Russia weakened, but not incapacitated.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told CNN that he and his Chinese counterpart have not spoken for a "couple of months," with Chinese Minister of National Defense Wei Fenghe refusing to take a call in the wake of the US shootdown of the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon.

The Justice Department wants to know how a box containing a handful of classified records scattered among copies of presidential schedules turned up at Mar-a-Lago late last year, well after several rounds of searches of the property by federal agents and aides to former President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who is now considering a run for president, was asked on Fox on Wednesday about the Biden administration's criticism of rail deregulation efforts by the Trump administration.

A Texas judge on Thursday dismissed the petition brought by State Bar of Texas' Commission for Lawyer Discipline alleging that attorney Sidney Powell had violated legal ethics rules with her work on former President Donald Trump's 2020 election reversal gambits.

The US transferred two brothers detained at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to Pakistan, the Defense Department announced Thursday, part of the Biden administration's ongoing efforts to close the prison facility.

The Pentagon is investigating how a trove of internal US Special Operations Command emails was apparently exposed publicly online and leaked unclassified data for nearly two weeks without the military's knowledge, a Pentagon spokesperson told CNN.

The United States is prepared to support Ukraine for the long haul in the war against Russia and is confident Kyiv will prevail, senior Biden administration officials told CNN's Fareed Zakaria at a unique CNN town hall marking the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is keeping his word to radicals who put him in power and rewarding those who can keep him there, paving a smooth start to his tenure that may, however, be storing up trouble down the road.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Thursday laid out the Biden administration's ambitious vision for the implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act over the next decade.

The voting rights of thousands of convicted felons in Minnesota are poised to be restored this summer once they leave prison, instead of after they complete parole, thanks to new legislation that is poised to be signed into law by Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.

The US is planning to increase the number of US troops training Taiwanese forces on the self-governing island in the coming months, according to US officials.

A Navy SEAL died over the weekend after taking part in a free-fall parachute training, according to a statement from Naval Special Warfare Command.

Former President Donald Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray can be deposed as part of a lawsuit from an ex-FBI agent who sued over his 2018 termination, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Two West Virginia brothers who brought bats to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, were sentenced Thursday by a federal judge in Washington, DC.

The US believes the training and equipment it is providing Ukraine will "change the dynamics on the battlefield" in the war against Russia and allow Kyiv's forces to "breach Russian defenses," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in an interview with CNN's Kaitlan Collins for "CNN This Morning" on Thursday.

House Republicans had hoped to pass a narrow border security bill within the first two weeks of their new majority, notching an easy win and delivering on a key campaign promise in the process.

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to compel former Vice President Mike Pence to testify in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The House select committee on China will feature four high-profile witnesses during its first hearing Tuesday at 7 p.m. ET, including former President Donald Trump's national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, and top China expert and former deputy national security adviser, Matthew Pottinger, sources familiar with the hearing told CNN.