ABC Politics News

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, then-top Department of Homeland Security official Alejandro Mayorkas saw a picture of a Federal Emergency Management Agency analysis as part of the investigation [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice has opened a grand jury investigation related to former President Donald Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, following the revelation in February that he [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will announce Friday that $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan has been committed to police departments and public safety across the U.S. “A very big amount [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Louisiana’s House of Representatives is debating a bill Thursday which would ban abortions and subject women to criminal prosecution for murder. The proposed bill seeks to [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Thousands of nurses from around the country marched to the White House and past the U.S. Capitol Thursday demanding reforms to the health care industry they claim has been putting their [Read More…]

Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is moving to deal with yet another crisis with potentially damaging political consequences: a nationwide shortage of baby formula. President Joe Biden spoke Thursday with retailers [Read More…]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack subpoenaed House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and four other Republican members of Congress on Thursday [Read More…]

Photo by Robert Mooney/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court justices met Thursday for the first time since the bombshell leak of a draft opinion showing the Court’s conservative majority is poised to overturn Roe v. [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday addressed the U.S. reaching the milestone of 1 million coronavirus deaths. “One million empty chairs around the family dinner table,” Biden said in a pre-taped video [Read More…]

Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — John Eastman, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, urged Pennsylvania lawmakers to sow doubt in the 2020 election and even suggested throwing out absentee ballots [Read More…]

J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the wake of a bombshell leak last week of a Supreme Court draft opinion indicating the court’s conservative majority could soon overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate Democrats on Wednesday forced [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — More than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died over the course of 150 years in Indigenous boarding schools run by the American government and churches [Read More…]

Chris Kleponis/CNP/Pool/Getty Images (KANKAKEE, Ill.) — President Joe Biden hit the road Wednesday to talk about the role American farmers can play in alleviating global food shortages caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At O’Connor [Read More…]

J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the wake of a bombshell leak last week of a Supreme Court draft opinion indicating the court’s conservative majority could soon overturn Roe v. Wade, Senate Democrats on Wednesday will [Read More…]

Ken Cedeno-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Lisa Cook to be the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. The vote was 51-50, with Vice President Kamala [Read More…]

Jeff Swensen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the 2022 midterm elections approach, some GOP super PACs are spending millions of dollars to oppose primary candidates endorsed by Donald Trump — suggesting a deepening rift within the [Read More…]

Ariel Skelley/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Just weeks before the first midterm primary elections, the Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter reminding postsecondary institutions throughout the country of their legal requirement to distribute voter [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Of the numerous primary races held Tuesday, two resonated beyond state politics: the Republican gubernatorial primary in Nebraska and the 2nd Congressional District Republican primary in West Virginia — two [Read More…]

Phil Roeder/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to recognize House staff members’ right to unionize after announcing an increase to their minimum pay. The vote was straight down party lines, with [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for a “prolonged conflict” in Ukraine, and could resort to drastic measures if the fighting doesn’t go his way, according to Director of National [Read More…]