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Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified Monday during the illegal foreign lobbying trial of former Donald Trump ally Tom Barrack that he never asked Barrack to undertake any [Read More…]

Mohamad syam/500px via Getty Images (VENEZUELA) — Seven Americans detained in Venezuela have been released, the White House announced Saturday. “Today, after years of being wrongfully detained in Venezuela, we are bringing home Jorge Toledo, [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Staff via Getty Images (TEXAS) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke faced off in a debate on Friday less than six weeks before Election Day. The debate — the first [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Hurricane Ian lashing the southeast U.S. after leaving a path of destruction in Florida, President Joe Biden provided a detailed update Friday on his administration’s response to the devastating [Read More…]

Miami Herald/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In September 2017, Hurricane Irma swept across the southern tip of Florida, swamping what was then the state’s 26th Congressional District. The following July, that district’s Republican representative, Carlos Curbelo, [Read More…]

Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A bill to avert a federal government shutdown passed the House on Friday, just hours before the midnight deadline. The House voted 230-201 to pass the stopgap legislation, which will [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Hurricane Ian making landfall in Florida on Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., and Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., pressed the Biden administration for details about a much-delayed [Read More…]

OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday visited FEMA headquarters in Washington as search and rescue efforts were underway in Florida in the wake of Hurricane Ian. Upon his arrival, [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, appeared in person at the House Jan. 6 committee’s offices on Thursday morning for a closed-door interview. Cameras caught Thomas [Read More…]

DHS Photo by Benjamin Applebaum (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration said Wednesday it had granted approval of a limited exemption in federal regulations on cabotage — or the transport of goods — in order to [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Hurricane Ian began barreling across Florida, President Joe Biden detailed his administration’s efforts to prepare for the storm and warned residents to heed warnings from officials. “It’s life-threatening,” Biden [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Monday is expected to announce a new proposed rule that would allow fliers to see the total cost of an airline ticket, [Read More…]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of what could be their final investigative hearing, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, members of the House Jan. 6 committee on Sunday offered a small preview of [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Outgoing Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., reiterated this weekend that she would campaign against election deniers, singling out Republican gubernatorial nominees in Arizona and Pennsylvania who’ve floated conspiracy theories about [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — After Donald Trump suggested last week that as president “you can declassify just by saying it’s declassified, even by thinking about it,” Republican Wyoming Senator John Barrasso disagreed — but [Read More…]

Tal Axelrod, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The U.S. is seeing evidence that Russia is “struggling” in its invasion of Ukraine and has warned Moscow that there would be “catastrophic consequences” if it were to [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — With his party struggling in the midterms, his economic stewardship under fire and his overall job approval under 40%, a clear majority of Democrats in the latest ABC News/Washington Post [Read More…]

ILYA PITALEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Even before Russian troops invaded Ukraine, U.S. officials warned global peace would be endangered if Russian President Vladimir Putin were allowed to brazenly seize another sovereign country. At [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Abortion access, legalized marijuana and antiquated laws on slavery are some of the topics that will be addressed in ballot measures in midterm elections. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe [Read More…]

Lynne Gilbert/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Arizona Democrats gathered outside the Republican attorney general’s office on Saturday to hit their Republican opponents on abortion and warn that women and girls will die in the state after [Read More…]