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Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced a body-worn camera policy for all nine law enforcement components under the DHS umbrella, including U.S. Customs and [Read More…]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy left a White House meeting with President Joe Biden on Monday saying he was optimistic about progress toward a deal on the nation’s [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats and Republicans can at least agree on one thing: They have no idea what’s going to happen in next year’s Arizona Senate race. The election is shaping up to [Read More…]

Stephanie Keith/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s words about writer E. Jean Carroll may, again, come back to haunt him. Carroll’s attorneys sought on Monday to amend her initial defamation lawsuit against [Read More…]

Prasit photo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the nation heads toward a potential default, possibly as soon as June 1, President Joe Biden is facing pressure from some Democrats to use the 14th Amendment to unilaterally [Read More…]

Daniel Garrido/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than $100 million will go to airports across the country to reduce potential runway incursions, the Federal Aviation Administration told ABC News exclusively. The funding, announced Monday, will be [Read More…]

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Tim Scott, who grew up in working-class poverty to become South Carolina’s first Black senator, and now the Senate’s lone Black Republican, was set to declare his [Read More…]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Texas Rep. Jodey Arrington, the House Budget Committee chairman, on Sunday pushed back on President Joe Biden’s call for tax increases as part of a deal [Read More…]

by Marc Guitard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet on Monday to directly negotiate on how to raise the federal government’s debt ceiling in the final days before [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday argued that House Republicans, led by Speaker Kevin McCarthy, had created an “insane situation” as the White House negotiates with lawmakers on raising the [Read More…]

ilbusca/Getty Stock Images (LINCOLN, Neb.) — Nebraska lawmakers voted on Friday to restrict abortion access after 12 weeks and to ban gender affirming care for trans youth. The bill, passed by the Nebraska legislature in a [Read More…]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After optimistic talk from both House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden earlier this week, Rep. Garrett Graves, who is leading debt ceiling talks for House [Read More…]

Jacques Witt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday informed G-7 leaders meeting in Japan that he will support joint training of Ukrainian fighter pilots on F-16s, which begins the process of fulfilling a [Read More…]

amphotora/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A D.C. police lieutenant was arrested and charged Friday with obstruction of justice and making false statements over allegations that he leaked information to then-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As House Speaker Kevin McCarthy expressed his most positive view yet on debt ceiling talks, a group of hardline conservatives on Thursday urged Republicans to stop [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, R-Texas, accepted the State Department’s latest offer to review a classified communication sent by American diplomats during the final days of the U.S. [Read More…]

Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Secret Service officer was recalled from Bulgaria after there was “an off-duty altercation with hotel staff,” according to an agency spokesperson. Former President Bill Clinton was scheduled to [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein suffered complications from shingles that included Ramsay Hunt syndrome and encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, her office confirmed on Thursday. Feinstein, a Democrat, was diagnosed [Read More…]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with social media giants in a case brought by families of victims in a terrorist attack in Turkey. The court unanimously ruled that Twitter [Read More…]

Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to file papers with the Federal Election Commission declaring his candidacy next week, which would formally enter DeSantis into the 2024 presidential race, two [Read More…]