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John Kerry, President Joe Biden's Special Envoy for Climate, told CNN he plans to stay in his current role through at least the next major international climate summit in November.

A day of crisis talks in Brussels ended Thursday with Western leaders touting unprecedented levels of unity, even as they reinforced the now-familiar limits to their approach.

The United States has indicted four Russian men, including three Russian intelligence officers, for alleged hacking campaigns that targeted hundreds of energy companies around the world from 2012 to 2018, the US Justice Department said Thursday.

Former President Donald Trump filed a sprawling federal lawsuit on Thursday against Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee and 26 other people and entities that he claims conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign by falsely tying him to Russia.

The House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot has in its possession more than two dozen text messages, 29 in total, between former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, a conservative activist and the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to multiple sources familiar with the messages.

Thursday was the final day of confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman ever to be nominated for the US Supreme Court.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed NATO leaders virtually Thursday as they gathered for an emergency summit on Russia's war in Ukraine. Zelensky stopped short of issuing his usual request for a no-fly zone, but he asked NATO to supply his country with military equipment. Below is a transcript of the English translation of Zelensky's speech as delivered.

Senior Russian military leaders have declined calls from their US counterparts since before the invasion of Ukraine began, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday.

Debra Meadows, the wife of former congressman and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, signed voter forms attesting she resided at a Macon County, North Carolina, mobile home that reports indicate the couple never lived in.

Sunrise Movement, the youth-led climate activist group, on Thursday announced its endorsements of Summer Lee in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional district, Nida Allam in North Carolina's 4th Congressional district and Erica Smith in North Carolina's 1st Congressional district, further bolstering progressive support behind the three Democratic candidates for the US House of Representatives.

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a Texas death row inmate could have his spiritual adviser pray aloud and "lay hands" on him during his execution, establishing new guidelines that will govern similar requests in other prisons across the country.

Beyond the hyperbole and theatrics that have punctuated this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, a portrait of Ketanji Brown Jackson as jurist has begun to emerge.

When 16-year-old Samiya Williams first saw Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson standing next to President Biden as he formally announced her nomination in February, she knew that one day she would follow in Jackson's footsteps.

Four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan authorized a team of officials to quietly map out potential ways the US could respond if Russian President Vladimir Putin took an extreme step, including deploying chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, a senior administration official told CNN.

For most of its 233 years, the US Supreme Court has looked like a chummy men's club from a not-so-distant time. Here's how the demographics of the court have stacked up since its beginning.

The Biden administration will soon release a federal regulation that overhauls the US asylum system to settle claims at a faster pace and help alleviate the immigration court backlog.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding its final day of confirmation hearings for President Biden's Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Watch live and follow here for the latest news updates.

Read CNN's Fast Facts and learn about former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

The United States will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians and others fleeing Russia's aggression, a senior administration official announced Thursday.

Leaders attending a slew of emergency summits here Thursday were working to settle on the next phase of their response to Russia's war in Ukraine, with new US sanctions and refugee assistance among the steps emerging from the snap talks.