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South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, announced Saturday he is running for re-election in 2022.

J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for a US Senate seat in Ohio, is a law school graduate. But Vance made a significant false claim on Thursday about legal proceedings against people who allegedly participated in the Capitol insurrection last year.

As the Supreme Court debated federal authority to impose a vaccine requirement on workers, the nine justices could not help but reveal their varying sentiments about the depth of America's Covid-19 pandemic and the value of vaccines.

The Biden administration is still weighing exactly how it would penalize Russia if the country invades Ukraine, as US diplomats are just days away from high-stakes meetings with Kremlin officials.

An Albany City Court judge on Friday dismissed a forcible touching complaint against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who briefly appeared virtually in court in his first public appearance since stepping down as governor.

The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol is considering formally asking former Vice President Mike Pence to voluntarily appear before the panel, with the possibility that request could come by the end of the month.

Lani Guinier, a legal scholar and champion for voting rights who was once nominated to be assistant attorney general by then-President Bill Clinton, died on Friday, her cousin, Sherrie Russell-Brown, confirmed to CNN. She was 71.

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is urging the Supreme Court to take up former President Donald Trump's case aiming to keep secret records from his presidency about efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the January 6 insurrection -- as he, like Trump, tries to evade a House select committee's investigation into the attack on the US Capitol.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled to travel to Colorado on Friday to meet with families who were affected by a recent massive wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes and thousands of acres.

The Biden administration has signed its first contract with a Covid-19 test manufacturer as part of President Joe Biden's efforts to distribute half a billion free rapid tests throughout the country, a White House official confirms to CNN.

A federal judge sentenced a US Capitol rioter who brought her teenage son along on January 6, 2021, to three months behind bars for illegally parading in the building.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that progress can be made during next week's diplomatic talks between US, European and Russian officials, but that it had to be a "two-way street" with Russia deescalating its aggression toward Ukraine.

A prolific Eastern European cybercriminal group has tried to hack US companies in the transportation, defense and insurance sectors by mailing those organizations malicious USB drives, the FBI warned US businesses this week in an advisory obtained by CNN.

The Supreme Court on Friday will take up challenges to President Joe Biden's most aggressive attempts so far to combat the spread of Covid-19 -- vaccine or testing requirements for large businesses and many health care workers -- as the number of infections soar and 40 million adults in the US are still declining to get vaccinated.

Vice President Kamala Harris' newly announced communications director Jamal Simmons is apologizing for decade-old tweets on "undocumented folks" that resurfaced after news of his appointment.

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said at a Senate committee meeting on Wednesday that the next day was the "anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol."

The Cyber Ninjas firm that oversaw the problem-plagued review of the 2020 results in Arizona's Maricopa County is shuttering.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday asked President Joe Biden to deliver the annual State of the Union address to Congress on March 1.

A ransomware attack on software provider Finalsite has affected the websites of about 5,000 schools, most of them in the US, a Finalsite spokesperson told CNN Friday.