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Biden says US will not provide Israel with weapons to use in major Rafah invasion
President Joe Biden steps off Marine One upon arrival at Soldier Field Landing Zone in Chicago, on May 8, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that American bombs [Read More…]
Trump praises Kristi Noem amid book controversy: ‘I like her a lot’
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks before former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes the stage during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on March 16, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via [Read More…]
House quickly kills Marjorie Taylor Greene’s effort to oust Speaker Johnson
U.S. House of Representatives (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but within minutes Democrats joined almost all Republicans to [Read More…]
Democrats work to keep protests from disrupting Chicago convention, with concerns over parallels to 1968
Getty Images – STOCK (CHICAGO) — In 1968, violence at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with hundreds of protesters arrested in a police crackdown, upended the party’s gathering and soured public opinion in the [Read More…]
Biden withheld bomb shipment to Israel out of fear it could be used in Rafah: Source
Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration opted to pause a shipment of some 3,500 bombs to Israel last week because of concerns the weapons could be used in Rafah where more than one [Read More…]
Judge delays Donald Trump’s classified documents trial indefinitely
Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s classified documents case has now indefinitely postponed the trial date pending resolution of outstanding pretrial litigation, including disagreements about how the classified information [Read More…]
Education Secretary Cardona condemns antisemitism at House hearing
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Education Secretary Miguel Cardona faced a barrage of questions on antisemitism and college protests during a more than three-hour hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, but repeatedly condemned all forms of [Read More…]
Biden administration pauses ammunition shipments to Israel, US officials say
Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is delaying shipments of ammunition expected to be sent to Israel, three U.S. officials told ABC News on Tuesday in what appears to be the first time [Read More…]
Marjorie Taylor Greene backs off threat to oust Johnson as speaker
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared on Tuesday to be backing off her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson this week, though she signaled that she’ll [Read More…]
TikTok sues federal government over potential US ban
NurPhoto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance filed a lawsuit against the federal government Tuesday over what it called an “unconstitutional” potential ban of the social media platform in the United [Read More…]
Biden condemns ‘ferocious surge’ in antisemitism during Holocaust remembrance ceremony
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden denounced what he called a “ferocious surge” of antisemitism in America and the atrocities committed by Hamas during its Oct. 7 attack on [Read More…]
In bid to oust Speaker Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Greene shares her demands
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of her meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene shared her list of demands for the speaker amid her push to oust him from [Read More…]
Trump privately urged Greene to drop push to oust Speaker Johnson
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump spoke privately with Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over the weekend and urged her to drop her push to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, a source close [Read More…]
Biden is set to deliver major speech on antisemitism at Holocaust remembrance ceremony
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will deliver a major speech denouncing antisemitism on Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol. The remarks are part of a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum [Read More…]
Gaza cease-fire talks at ‘critical stage,’ US says, after Hamas claims it accepted proposal
White House national security communications adviser John Kirby speaks during a news conference with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 6, 2024 in [Read More…]
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’ll meet with Speaker Mike Johnson again Tuesday amid threat to oust him
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie met privately on Monday, amid Greene’s looming threat to try to oust him. Emerging from a nearly [Read More…]
Biden speaks with Netanyahu as Israeli invasion of Rafah appears imminent
Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, a White House official told ABC News. The call comes as an Israeli invasion of Rafah appears imminent, [Read More…]
Six months out, a tight presidential race with battle between issues and attributes: POLL
ABC News / IPSOS Poll (NEW YORK) — Locked in a tight race for the presidency, Donald Trump prevails in trust to handle most issues in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, yet President Joe Biden [Read More…]
RFK Jr.’s ‘clever move’ to help earn ballot access nationwide: Allying with little-known parties
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak at a press conference in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on May 1, 2024. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — One Saturday [Read More…]
Mayor Eric Adams defends NYPD response to campus protests
ABC News (NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday defended the police crackdown on campus protests there, which have become the epicenter of demonstrations around the country against the Israel-Hamas war. [Read More…]