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A US Coast Guard ship "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit" on Tuesday, according to a statement released by the US Navy.

In its early phases, Ukraine's counteroffensive is having less success and Russian forces are showing more competence than western assessments expected, two western officials and a senior US military official tell CNN.

State Sen. Angela Paxton, the wife of embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, will no longer be allowed to vote in her husband's upcoming impeachment proceedings as a result of new rules the state Senate approved Wednesday night.

Former Texas Rep. Will Hurd, who announced his 2024 Republican presidential campaign earlier Thursday with an anti-Donald Trump message, said he won't sign the Republican National Committee's pledge to back the party's ultimate nominee in order to participate in primary debates.

Democratic institutions in the United States and around the world have grown "creaky," former President Barack Obama warned in an exclusive CNN interview Thursday, and it remains incumbent on American leaders to find ways to sustain them into the future.

President Joe Biden and first lady Dr. Jill Biden are set to fête India Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday evening at the White House, hosting a lavish, tented state dinner featuring a plant-based menu for their guest of honor, who is a vegetarian.

Drugmakers' leading industry group is the latest to file a lawsuit seeking to stop Medicare's newly granted power to negotiate drug prices. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA, argues that the negotiation provision is unconstitutional.

Special counsel Jack Smith has begun producing evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to Donald Trump, according to a Wednesday court filing that hints that investigators collected for the case multiple recordings of the former president -- not just audio of an interview Trump gave at Bedminster for a forthcoming Mark Meadows memoir.

Rodriguez shouted "Trump won!" as he was led out of the courtroom

Jack Teixeira, the Air National Guardsman accused of leaking highly classified military documents on social media, pleaded not guilty in a Massachusetts court Wednesday to six federal charges.

The stage is now set in Virginia for the most important down-ballot election of 2023 -- a battle for control of the split legislature that will offer an important window into the mood of swing-state voters as next year's presidential race kicks off.

The Biden administration announced a proposal Wednesday to strengthen the Endangered Species Act, including repealing Trump-era rules that loosened protections for vulnerable species.

The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic day in court that ended with Hunter Biden's plea deal being placed on hold is a Donald Trump appointee who was confirmed with Democratic support in 2018.

Republicans wasted no time Tuesday calling into question the plea agreement Hunter Biden reached with the Justice Department over two tax charges and a felony gun charge, claiming President Joe Biden's son received special treatment in a long-running probe that had been a cause célèbre on the right.

President Joe Biden made false claims about a variety of topics, notably including gun policy, during a series of official speeches and campaign remarks over the last two weeks.

Eastman is facing disbarment in California for his role in Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 results.

Welcoming Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House this week for a state visit -- the most elevated form of American diplomacy -- required President Joe Biden to make certain trade-offs and Modi to step out of his comfort zone, for at least a few minutes.

Americans' competing political realities are colliding fantastically on Capitol Hill this week in a public punishment, an ill-fated impeachment effort and the dissection of another special counsel's report.

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff, a key lawmaker in Democrats' congressional investigations into former President Donald Trump during his presidency.

US Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs Roger Carstens quietly traveled to Venezuela this week, a State Department spokesperson confirmed to CNN Wednesday.