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Responding to Roe’s demise, some liberals tell Biden: ‘Do absolutely everything’
Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In his speech responding to last week’s landmark Supreme Court decision reversing the guarantee to abortion access, President Joe Biden urged Americans to vote on the issue — to both [Read More…]
US to purchase advanced missile system for Ukraine’s defense
kolderal/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The United States is working to finalize the purchase of an advanced air defense system bound for Ukraine, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at the G-7 summit in Germany [Read More…]
Supreme Court rules First Amendment protects a public school coach and prayer
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the First Amendment protects a public school coach’s right to pray near students. The case focusing on separation of church and state involved [Read More…]
Kristi Noem celebrates Roe v. Wade’s overturning but says women shouldn’t ‘be prosecuted’ for abortions
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Sunday that women shouldn’t be prosecuted for seeking abortions following the Supreme Court’s ruling last week overturning Roe v. Wade, which allowed state-level abortion bans [Read More…]
Charges for Trump or others not a ‘principal interest,’ Jan. 6 committee’s Jamie Raskin says
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, said Sunday that criminal charges against the people involved in trying to overturn [Read More…]
Supreme Court ‘set a torch’ to last of its legitimacy with Roe reversal, Elizabeth Warren argues
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court has “burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had” with their ruling last week overturning Roe v. Wade, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said on Sunday. “They just [Read More…]
Supreme Court abortion ruling live updates: WH warns of ‘nightmare scenarios’
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a much-anticipated ruling Friday in one of its biggest decisions this term. The court voted 5-4, largely along [Read More…]
Biden signs bipartisan gun safety package into law
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the gun safety package passed by Congress this week. “Time is of the essence,” Biden said as he delivered remarks in the Roosevelt [Read More…]
Supreme Court abortion ruling live updates: Roe v. Wade struck down by court
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a much-anticipated ruling Friday in one of its biggest decisions this term. The court voted 5-4, largely along [Read More…]
Where abortion stands in your state: A state-by-state breakdown of abortion laws
ABC News (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Supreme Court voted Friday to strike down Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to an abortion. In the 5-4 decision, the court ruled [Read More…]
States introduce new abortion laws after Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade: Live updates
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark decision that guaranteed a woman’s right to an abortion, states are taking action. The court’s ruling rolled [Read More…]
First lady Jill Biden grieves with Surfside families on one-year anniversary of collapse
Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (SURFSIDE, Fla.) — First lady Jill Biden spoke Friday morning at the site of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, on the one-year anniversary of the tragedy. Joining Biden at [Read More…]
Violence by extremists could occur ‘for weeks’ in wake of Supreme Court decision: DHS
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security expects violence could occur “for weeks” from domestic violent extremists following the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, according to a bulletin obtained exclusively by [Read More…]
Jan. 6 hearing live updates: Focus is Trump’s effort to corrupt Justice Department
Alex Wong/Getty Images Thursday’s hearing of the Jan. 6 committee is focusing on the pressure then-President Donald Trump and his allies put on the Justice Department to help overturn the 2020 election. Here’s how the [Read More…]
Feds search home of former DOJ official tied to Trump’s efforts to overturn election
Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Federal agents searched the Virginia home of former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday morning, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the activity. It was [Read More…]
Supreme Court gun ruling sparks furor in New York, Washington
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court ruling Thursday striking down a New York state law limiting the right to carry a concealed handgun in public is sparking a furor from Albany to Washington [Read More…]
After Thursday, Jan. 6 hearings pushed for ‘several weeks’ as committee considers new evidence
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After Thursday’s hearing, the House Jan. 6 select committee will delay its final hearings for several weeks, a spokesperson confirmed to ABC News Wednesday. “The Select [Read More…]
Missouri Republicans sound the alarm on a scandal-plagued, resurgent Eric Greitens: ‘Damaged goods’
Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, FILE (ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — Penelope Quigg is a lifelong Republican voter. But the chair of the Republican Party in Cole County, Missouri, said she won’t [Read More…]
Major Second Amendment case awaiting Supreme Court decision
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A decision in the U.S. Supreme Court’s biggest gun rights case in over a decade is expected to land any day now. The closely-watched case, New York State Rifle & [Read More…]
South Dakota attorney general convicted on impeachment charges, removed from office, over fatal traffic accident
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (PIERRE, S.D.) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has been convicted in impeachment charges and removed from office over the aftermath following a fatal car crash in 2020 he [Read More…]