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Former Trump aide, MAGA Inc founder Taylor Budowich, goes before grand jury
Mint Images/Getty Images (MIAMI) — The founder of MAGA Inc and a former Trump aide, Taylor Budowich, is appearing in front of a South Florida grand jury on Wednesday. An ABC News camera caught Budowich [Read More…]

Chris Christie says path to the Republican nomination means going ‘right through’ Trump
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, appearing on ABC News’ Good Morning America on Wednesday, made clear that any path to the Republican nomination in 2024 means taking down former [Read More…]

Mike Pence announces he’s challenging Donald Trump in 2024 presidential race
Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence announced in a video on Wednesday that he is running for president against his former boss — Donald Trump — because, he said, [Read More…]

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum joining 2024 presidential race against Trump, DeSantis
Stephen Yang/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum on Wednesday is expected to jump into the 2024 presidential race — becoming the 12th Republican candidate on the list, with a pitch to voters [Read More…]

Trump’s ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows testifies to special counsel grand jury: Sources
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump’s last White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel’s investigations into Trump, sources familiar with [Read More…]

GOP revolt on gas stove vote shows fragility of McCarthy’s speakership: ANALYSIS
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The gas stove debate is boiling over, but it’s Kevin McCarthy’s speakership that may have been burned. A procedural first step to take up GOP-backed legislation to prohibit the federal government [Read More…]

Chris Christie launches 2024 bid: Choose ‘big’ over ‘small,’ he says, slamming Trump as ‘mirror hog’
Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (MANCHESTER, N.H.) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced he is running for president Tuesday, adding a firm anti-Trump voice to a still growing Republican [Read More…]

Chris Christie, one of GOP’s loudest anti-Trump voices, kicks off 2024 presidential bid
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is set to launch his presidential campaign on Tuesday, joining a crowded — and still growing — GOP primary field. Christie will announce his bid [Read More…]

Chris Sununu not running for president, says ‘crowded’ GOP field helps Trump
Jemal Countess/Getty Images for TIME (WASHINGTON) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu announced Monday that he will not run for president — in order to keep the field of Republican candidates less crowded so Donald [Read More…]

Thousands of women participate in sit-in at Colorado Capitol against gun violence
RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images (DENVER) — Thousands of women participate in a sit-in at the Colorado state Capitol Monday, calling on Gov. Jared Polis to sign an executive order to ban guns [Read More…]

Judge who once did legal work for Trump can continue in criminal case
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Neither former President Trump nor Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg object to Judge Alvin Hellerstein presiding over a matter related to Trump’s criminal prosecution, the two sides indicated [Read More…]

Pence files paperwork for presidential campaign
Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission Monday to launch his presidential campaign. The paperwork marks the start of a long-anticipated 2024 bid [Read More…]

Trump lawyers meet with Justice Department officials
Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump met with officials at the Department of Justice Monday, according to sources familiar with the matter. It was not immediately clear who Trump’s lawyers met [Read More…]

NH man allegedly threatened senator over military promotion block: ‘Coming to get you’
amphotora/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A New Hampshire man was arrested last week and charged with threatening to kill a U.S. senator, federal prosecutors said. Brian Landry, a 66-year-old from Franklin, New Hampshire, allegedly left a [Read More…]

US must ‘stand strong’ in face of ‘unbelievable aggression from China’: Turner
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Mike Turner, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, on Sunday lambasted what he called increased military hostility by China and insisted the U.S. “stand strong” after recent close calls near [Read More…]

Ukraine must make ‘major concessions’ to Russia so US can focus on China: Vivek Ramaswamy
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Vivek Ramaswamy, the youngest 2024 Republican presidential candidate and self-proclaimed political outsider, on Sunday made his “America first” pitch for the White House while defending his view that the U.S. must force [Read More…]

Biden signs bipartisan debt ceiling deal
ABC News, POOL (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — President Joe Biden addressed the nation in a prime-time speech Friday after Congress averted an economically disastrous default with just days to spare by passing legislation to raise the [Read More…]

Trump’s attorneys unable to locate sensitive military document he discussed in recording
gregobagel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Attorneys for former President Donald Trump have been unable to locate the sensitive military document that Trump discussed on tape during a July 2021 meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey, [Read More…]

Trump asks judge in criminal case to step aside due to his daughter’s Democratic ties
OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump on Friday asked the judge overseeing his criminal prosecution in New York City to step aside, citing the judge’s daughter’s ties to a Democratic organization. [Read More…]

DOJ tells Pence it won’t seek criminal charges against him in documents probe
Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice has notified former Vice President Mike Pence that no criminal charges will be sought in their investigation into his handling of classified documents after leaving office, according [Read More…]