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There have been internal conversations within the Biden administration about scaling back the ambitious booster plan laid out by top federal health officials last month as the calendar nears September 20, the date when booster shots may start to be offered.

President Joe Biden is headed to Louisiana on Friday to survey damage from Hurricane Ida, after almost a week of the deadly storm ravaging the eastern half of the United States.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, falsely claimed on CNN on Wednesday that President Joe Biden has never expressed gratitude or empathy toward the American troops who have served overseas during the last two decades.

In public remarks on Thursday to Jewish leaders in advance of the High Holy Days, President Joe Biden spoke at length about the "scourge of anti-Semitism."

If California Gov. Gavin Newsom is able to keep his job and avoid a recall later this month, he could have Latino voters to thank for it.

The White House on Friday released a new multibillion-dollar plan for improving preparedness for pandemics or other biological threats, comparing it to the ambitious Apollo moon shot program of the 1960s and 1970s.

This is a week President Joe Biden would like to forget. But Republicans won't let that happen anytime soon.

US intelligence officials are anticipating foreign terrorist organizations will seek to exploit the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and "probably the US withdrawal from Afghanistan" in their messaging, according to a FBI, DHS, and NCTC joint intelligence bulletin obtained by CNN.

President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order directing the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to conduct a declassification review related to the FBI's investigation of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

President Joe Biden has tapped former Delaware Gov. Jack Markell as the temporary point person who will oversee the administration's Afghan evacuee resettlement effort in the United States, the White House announced Friday.

Stephen Miller seemed floored by the idea, raised during a fall Cabinet meeting in 2018, of  keeping open the doors for Afghan allies and other Middle East refugees to enter the US. 

The so-called "QAnon Shaman" who stormed the US Capitol in a horned bearskin outfit pleaded guilty Friday to a felony for obstructing the Electoral College proceedings on January 6.

CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checks a claim made by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy during a Fox News interview where he asserted thousands of Taliban fighters left Afghanistan and are trying to enter the US.

County administrators in Colorado have opened an investigation into an election official after employees complained she was pressuring them not to cooperate with a joint local, state and federal criminal investigation into an election system security breach discovered last month, a source told CNN.

President Joe Biden said Friday the Texas state law that bans abortion after as early as six weeks into pregnancy is "almost un-American," pointing specifically to a provision allowing individuals to take civil action against people who help a woman get an abortion.

More than 100 Democratic lawmakers in the House from all wings of the caucus introduced legislation on Friday to lower the Medicare eligibility age to 60.

An ideologically diverse group of Democrats is pushing Secretary of State Antony Blinken to take specific steps toward helping thousands of individuals still seeking to leave Afghanistan, underscoring the widespread concern still lingering in Congress over the evacuation effort from the war-torn country.

The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday that it plans to hold a hearing examining Texas' six-week abortion ban and the controversial, expedited Supreme Court procedure that allowed it to take effect this week.

One question looms above all others in United States climate envoy John Kerry's climate diplomacy agenda: What can the US do about China?

Larry Elder, a radio talk show host and the top Republican candidate in California's recall election, disclosed in 2011 episodes of his radio show that he had twice been accused of sexual harassment and forcefully denied the allegations.