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Suspected Iranian hackers have targeted dozens of defense technology and maritime transportation firms, successfully breaching a small number, in a spying campaign launched since July that could leave some of the companies vulnerable to follow-on hacking attempts, Microsoft announced Monday.

Following a year-long operation by undercover FBI agents, a Maryland couple has been arrested and charged with attempting to sell US nuclear secrets to another country in exchange for cryptocurrency.

When activist Tammye Pettyjohn Jones knocks on voters' doors in her rural corner of Georgia this month, she'll have a new tool in hand: a portable printer.

An Afghan interpreter who helped rescue then-Sen. Joe Biden after his helicopter was forced to land in a snowstorm 13 years ago has left Afghanistan, sources familiar tell CNN.

President Joe Biden on Monday commemorated National Coming Out Day by saying the US still has work to do to achieve equality for all Americans amid a wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation in state legislatures across the country.

Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe has admitted President Joe Biden's political woes drag on his gubernatorial campaign. But they pale against the shockwaves that would rip through the White House if he loses his race next month at a perilous time for the party in Washington.

A whistleblower identifying as a former high-ranking US Capitol Police official excoriated the department's leadership before, during and after the deadly January 6 insurrection in a new letter to Congress.

CNN's Pamela Brown takes a look at how former President Donald Trump's big lie about the 2020 election has become infectious.

The US State Department said Sunday that this weekend's talks with representatives of the Taliban in Doha, Qatar -- the first such gathering since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August -- were "candid and professional" while emphasizing that the Taliban "will be judged on its actions, not only its words."

Pregnant women who develop Covid-19 symptoms risk emergency complications and other problems with their pregnancies, according to two new studies. The disease also puts their children at risk.

When the Commerce Department launched an "early alert hotline" last Monday for resolving semiconductor supply shortages, the first alarm arrived by email from an American business within hours.

Allen West, Republican candidate for governor of Texas and former Florida congressman, announced Saturday on social media that he has pneumonia due to Covid-19. "I am probably going to be admitted to the hospital," West said on Facebook.

Former President Donald Trump on Saturday eviscerated Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for compromising with Senate Democrats on a temporary debt ceiling deal, his latest broadside against the top Republican in Washington as Trump continues to hint at a 2024 presidential run.

Out-of-work Americans did not rush back into the job market after beefed-up unemployment benefits ended nationwide in September.

The Biden administration is ramping up its efforts to secure America's far-flung critical infrastructure amid ongoing concerns from top US officials that Russia and China continue to seek a digital foothold inside the networks of pipelines, ports and other targets -- with the intention of gathering data or one day exploiting any access gained.

Terry McAuliffe on Sunday downplayed a recent remark in which he observed that President Joe Biden's sagging popularity is hurting his bid to become Virginia's next governor and reiterated on CNN's "State of the Union" that Democrats in Washington need to pass a stalled bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Matt Dolan is a rare Republican candidate these days: a moderate conservative more interested in talking about infrastructure than in litigating the 2020 presidential election.

Gen. Ray Odierno, a former four-star Army general who commanded US troops during the Iraq War, died Friday of cancer, according to Army spokesman Lt. Col. Terence M. Kelly

Democrats are likely to have a turnout issue in 2022. To solve this turnout problem, there will be a temptation to double-down on progressive policies. And indeed, President Joe Biden's Build Back Better agenda polls fairly well.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday told Attorney General Merrick Garland that parents "absolutely should be telling" local schools what to teach amid a debate over mask and vaccine mandates, the role of racial equity education and transgender rights in schools that has become a flash point ahead of the 2022 midterms.