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Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After nearly 100 consecutive days of falling gas prices, fuel costs have spiked in recent weeks. This time, the price increase coincides with the lead up to the midterm elections [Read More…]

Daniel Karmann/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite a gradual upward trend in military suicides over the last decade, 2021 saw a more than 15% decrease for active duty service members, according to a [Read More…]

Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump has been formally subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The subpoena requires Trump to turn over documents by Nov. [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is scheduled to be sentenced today following his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, after he defied a subpoena from the House [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Everytown for Gun Safety, the prominent gun violence prevention organization, on Friday announced its first-ever investments in local secretary of state races amid what they described as worries the GOP [Read More…]

ABC News (PHOENIX) — As Yesenia Cruz-Bejarano emerged from the Moose Lodge, an early voting location in South Phoenix, tears streamed down her face even as she smiled brightly with joy. “I’ve been here for [Read More…]

Rebecca Noble/Getty Images (FULTON COUNTY, Ga.) — A federal appeals court on Thursday denied Sen. Lindsey Graham’s request to block a subpoena from the Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 [Read More…]

David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Longtime Trump confidant charged with acting as agent of foreign government Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin testified Thursday in the trial of former Trump inaugural chair Tom Barrack, [Read More…]

IronHeart/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new super PAC backed by former President Donald Trump is injecting money into key 2022 races, investing $4 million in a new round of ad spending in battleground states, according [Read More…]

Michael Le Brecht/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown “no interest” in engaging in “meaningful diplomacy” with Ukraine, after eight months of bloody war. “Our [Read More…]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol has yet to formally subpoena former President Donald Trump, in part because investigators are still trying [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence had this to say on Wednesday night when asked if he would vote for Donald Trump in 2024, if his former boss were the Republican presidential [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge said in a ruling Wednesday that evidence shows former President Donald Trump had been told the number of 2016 voter fraud instances he alleged occurred in Georgia were [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The trial of a Russian national accused of lying to federal investigators about information he contributed to the so-called Steele dossier is set to begin this week, marking a major [Read More…]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (CLEVELAND) — After weeks of back and forth negotiating on the time, the hosts and the venue, Ohio Senate nominees Rep. Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance will be facing off on Monday [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday called for a change in Washington’s ties to Saudi Arabia after the country and other members of the OPEC+ alliance decided to significantly cut production [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s warning last week that Vladimir Putin was “not joking” about possibly using nuclear weapons was “concerning” and counterproductive to bringing an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, retired [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The White House believes “the stakes are very high right now” with Russia amid Vladimir Putin’s struggles in Ukraine and his references to his nuclear arsenal, but President Joe Biden’s warning [Read More…]

Tarik Ergenç/EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 500 children have been reunited by the Biden administration’s task force to find families separated as a result of the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy at the border, [Read More…]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, his team returned a large batch of classified FBI documents and other government records to the Justice Department in such disarray that a [Read More…]