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The State Department on Friday called on Myanmar's military regime to release Danny Fenster, an American journalist based in Myanmar who was detained earlier this week as he tried to board a flight out of the country.

CNN's Jake Tapper speaks with author Edward-Isaac Dovere about his new book "Battle for the Soul" and the harsh words former President Barack Obama had for his successor, former President Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden on Friday condemned the rise in anti-Semitic attacks across the country in recent weeks, saying the incidents are "despicable, unconscionable, un-American, and they must stop."

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Sandra Garza, fallen Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick's partner, tells CNN's Jake Tapper what she said to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who has publicly tried to downplay the events of January 6th.

House Democrats are actively considering mounting a probe of their own into the January 6 US Capitol attack, signaling they don't plan to let the issue go away in the aftermath of Senate Republicans derailing the creation of an outside commission to probe the deadly insurrection.

Russian President Vladimir Putin cemented his support of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko in a meeting on Friday, saying that the West's reaction to the interception and forced landing of a passenger jet "was an outburst of emotion."

Tesla appears to be changing its tune on whether drivers using Autopilot should be monitored with an in-car camera to make sure they're attentive and safe.

The parents of Trevor Reed, an American imprisoned in Russia who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said neither they nor the US Embassy have been able to contact him since he was taken into isolation for the disease. Paula and Joey Reed told CNN's Victor Blackwell they found out about their son's positive diagnosis through his legal team.

A Los Angeles toddler has become the youngest American member of Mensa, where membership is strictly limited to those who score at the highest levels in IQ tests.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told CNN the United States has "offensive options" to respond to cyberattacks following another major attack that is believed to have been carried out by the Russian group behind the SolarWinds hack.

CNN's Jake Tapper reacts to Senate Republicans voting against a commission to investigate the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

A crucial Senate vote on a bill to create an independent inquiry to investigate the deadly January 6 Capitol Hill riot failed to advance Friday, falling short of the 10 Republican votes needed to advance and illustrating GOP efforts to move on from the insurrection that left five people dead and injured 140 police officers.

More than 100 years after the crimes committed by the German colonial power in what is now Namibia, Germany has formally recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups as genocide.

On one side of the country, legacy Republicans were agonizing about what their party should be. On the other, Donald Trump's diehards were revealing what it already is.

Hundreds of men in Ethiopia's restive region of Tigray were released on Thursday evening, eyewitnesses and aid workers said, following a CNN report into their detention that prompted international outcry.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is facing criticism in her Georgia constituency over her comments comparing mask mandates to the Holocaust. CNN's Martin Savidge speaks to voters in Rome, Georgia.

US President Joe Biden's call for a renewed investigation into the origins of the coronavirus feels like déjà vu in Beijing.

A raid on a remote village in Afghanistan kills an ageing al Qaeda leader wanted by the FBI. Messages to the group's cells around the world are seized. Two drone strikes on militants in northwest Syria swiftly follow.

Bill Cosby has been denied parole by the Pennsylvania Parole Board, which cited a number of reasons for its decision, according to a letter from the board obtained by CNN.

It had all the hallmarks of a Hollywood premiere: Excited crowds, a giant screen, even a red carpet.

A Trump appointee serving on West Point's advisory board has repeatedly spread a conspiracy that the Biden administration is bringing in non-White immigrants as part of a "grand plan" to have them outnumber White Americans of European ancestry in the United States.

President Joe Biden's instructions to the US intelligence community to redouble its efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic came on the heels of intelligence officials informing the White House that they possessed unreviewed evidence necessitating greater computer analysis that could potentially provide answers, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Former Secretary of Defense and former GOP senator from Nebraska, Chuck Hagel, reacts to reporting that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has made the unusual move of asking wavering senators to support filibustering a bill creating a January 6 commission as "a personal favor" to him.

One of the many noxious developments of Donald Trump's presidency was the rise of several cable TV outlets that aimed to out-Fox Fox News.

Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, says there needs to be an investigation into the origins of Covid-19.

The European Union is mulling fresh sanctions against Belarus in the wake of what EU leaders have described as the state-sanctioned hijacking of a passenger flight over Belarus last Sunday.

The likelihood that the earth's average temperature will at least temporarily breach a crucial tipping point is rising, according to the world's leading weather and climate organization.

Tens of thousands of people are trying to escape the Congolese city of Goma after authorities issued an evacuation order warning that the Mount Nyiragongo volcano could erupt again.

Facebook said it's no longer removing from its platforms claims that coronavirus was man-made.

French President Emmanuel Macron publicly acknowledged France's "overwhelming responsibility" in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and said only the survivors could give "the gift of forgiveness."

United States Navy commanders face a potential shortfall in their Asia sea power in the coming weeks as tensions simmer with China in the region's waters.

President Joe Biden's top trade negotiator spoke for the first time with her Chinese counterpart by phone on Wednesday. It's a sign that Washington and Beijing may be ready to pick trade talks back up, even as relations between the two remain tense.

A growing storm over the origins in China of Covid-19 has explosive political implications for the United States at home and abroad, as well as the dueling legacies of two presidents that will be defined by the pandemic.

Ecuador confirmed on Tuesday that a giant tortoise found in 2019 in the Galapagos Islands is a species considered extinct a century ago.

Rep. Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat and veteran who helped comfort other lawmakers during the US Capitol insurrection, said Wednesday evening there's a "domestic terror movement" in the US as he sought to highlight the risk of not investigating the January 6 riot.

Australia's ambassador to China was denied entry to a heavily guarded Beijing court on Thursday where the espionage case against Australian blogger Yang Hengjun will be heard at a time of worsening ties between the two nations.

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President Joe Biden said Wednesday he has directed the US intelligence community to redouble their efforts in investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic and report back to him in 90 days.

At least three people died and tens of thousands were made homeless when a powerful cyclone swept into eastern India from the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, inundating hundreds of low-lying villages, officials said.

Indian civil aviation regulators are investigating a video that went viral on social media that appears to show a couple getting married mid-flight surrounded by family and friends.