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Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., leaves the U.S. Capitol after the last votes before August recess, on Wednesday July 23, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) (FLORIDA) — A Florida judge issued a protective [Read More…]

Voting rights activists protest outside the U.S. Supreme Court as the court prepares to hear arguments in a case challenging Louisiana’s congressional map in Washington on Wednesday, October 15, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via [Read More…]

Farmer Scott Thomsen, pictured here with ABC’s Matt Rivers, is preparing for the fall soybean harvest in eastern Nebraska. Ben Siegel & Matt Rivers/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s $20 billion bailout of Argentina’s [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed the possibility he could change his strategy to end the government shutdown by negotiating legislative changes with Democrats, telling reporters on Tuesday that he doesn’t “have [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed the possibility he could change his strategy to end the government shutdown by negotiating legislative changes with Democrats, telling reporters on Tuesday that he doesn’t “have [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When a federal court concluded Louisiana’s 2022 congressional map violated the Voting Rights Act by discriminating against Black voters, the state legislature created a new map with a second majority-Black [Read More…]

(WASHINGTON) — The House Judiciary Committee wants former special counsel Jack Smith to testify before the panel behind closed doors about his investigations into President Donald Trump. Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Tuesday requested an [Read More…]

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (RALEIGH, N.C.) — North Carolina’s GOP statehouse leaders say the legislature will meet next week to consider redrawing the state’s congressional districts, saying they want to bolster President Donald Trump as the [Read More…]

A view of the U.S. Capitol on September 29, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Dozens of employees at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were laid off in the [Read More…]

Alex Jones speaks to protestors gathered outside the Texas State Capitol during a rally calling for the reopening of Austin and Texas on April 25, 2020 in Austin, Texas (Photo by Gary Miller/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday is expected to posthumously award conservative activist Charlie Kirk the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Kirk was fatally shot on Sept. [Read More…]

ABC News In a speech to Israel’s parliament on a day when the country’s living 20 hostages were released as part of a ceasefire agreement he helped broker, President Donald Trump told the Knesset, “This [Read More…]

JD Vance speaks with ABC News on This Week. (ABC News) (WASHINGTON) — Vice President JD Vance confirmed to ABC “This Week” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos that Hamas has said they are holding 20 living hostages, [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Joe Biden is now receiving radiation therapy for his prostate cancer, a spokesperson for the former president confirmed to ABC News. “As part of a treatment plan [Read More…]

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during a news conference on the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on October 09, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the [Read More…]

First Lady Melania Trump. Aaron Chown-WPA Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — First lady Melania Trump announced Friday that she and Russian President Vladimir Putin have had an “open channel of communication” regarding children impacted by the [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Friday voiced frustration with what he called China’s “trade hostility,” threatening to respond with large tariffs on China and to cancel his upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi [Read More…]

First Lady Melania Trump. Aaron Chown-WPA Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — First lady Melania Trump announced Friday that she and Russian President Vladimir Putin have had an “open channel of communication” regarding children impacted by the [Read More…]

Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In two courthouses in different parts of the country, President Donald Trump’s attempt to send troops into Democratic-led cities faced a critical legal test on Thursday, with a [Read More…]

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) attends a news conference on the government shutdown at the U.S. Capitol on October 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a rare [Read More…]