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The Justice Department is partially appealing an order to publicly release a pivotal 2019 memo about whether then-President Donald Trump obstructed the Russia investigation.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed an executive order Tuesday prohibiting state agencies, state service providers and state properties from requiring Covid-19 vaccine passports, the governor's office said.

New York federal prosecutors investigating Rudy Giuliani have seized material from a wider array of individuals than previously disclosed, including messages from email and iCloud accounts they believe belong to two former Ukranian government officials, as well as the cell phone and iPad of a pro-Trump Ukrainian businessman, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday.

The White House has ousted several members of a prestigious arts commission in the nation's capital, the latest move in the Biden administration's purge of Trump-era appointees from government agencies and boards.

A federal judge slammed the Department of Justice for "getting a jump on public relations" when its leaders in 2019 discussed a public rollout that would blunt the Mueller investigation's damaging findings about then-President Donald Trump, according to a newly released opinion from the judge.

The first face-to-face meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to take place next month in Switzerland, two US officials told CNN, as the White House and the Kremlin move closer this week to finalizing arrangements for the summit.

Unidentified Flying Objects have long been a phenomenon that has captivated Americans, but the age-old question still remains — does extraterrestrial life actually exist? In this latest episode of The Point, CNN's Chris Cillizza explains what the government already knows about UFOs and what we can expect to uncover in the upcoming report from the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense on what they call "unidentified aerial phenomena."

Texas is a step closer to allowing residents to carry handguns in public without obtaining a license or training.

A Vietnam veteran who allegedly brought Mason jar bombs to Capitol Hill on January 6 had scoped out the Capitol Building in December by driving around it, and had called Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's office and tried to visit the Republican at home, a court filing revealed on Monday.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday condemned recent attacks toward the Jewish community after several Jewish people were targeted in cities across the US and abroad as tensions flare over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

One of the original culture war conflicts may be poised for a resurgence -- with potentially explosive political consequences.

America has never been closer to the end of this pandemic, which has inflicted the most universally experienced crisis and assault on national morale since World War II.

President Joe Biden is expected to scale up his administration's investment in extreme weather preparation when he makes a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters on Monday afternoon.

The United States will make "significant contributions" to rebuilding Gaza which will be announced later Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Jerusalem.

A team of Democratic operatives is launching an initiative to bolster progressive campaigns ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

The FBI and other law enforcement are investigating a package with white powder sent Monday to Republican Sen. Rand Paul's home in Kentucky, according to the FBI Louisville office's spokesman Tim Beam.

Former Trump White House Counsel Don McGahn has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee after House Democrats and the Justice Department struck a deal paving the way for his closed-door testimony, which is likely to occur next week, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

President Joe Biden on Monday lambasted Belarus' sudden grounding of a commercial flight and subsequent arrest of onboard dissident journalist Roman Pratasevich as "a direct affront to international norms."

The two lead Senate negotiators behind legislation to overhaul the nation's policing laws expressed optimism Monday, on the eve of a critical milestone officials had set to make progress on such a plan, with Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina saying, "I think we can see the end of the tunnel" when it comes to crafting a bipartisan deal.

Rand Paul has no plans to get vaccinated against the virus that causes Covid-19.