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Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’ll meet with Speaker Mike Johnson again Tuesday amid threat to oust him
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie met privately on Monday, amid Greene’s looming threat to try to oust him. Emerging from a nearly [Read More…]
Biden speaks with Netanyahu as Israeli invasion of Rafah appears imminent
Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, a White House official told ABC News. The call comes as an Israeli invasion of Rafah appears imminent, [Read More…]
Six months out, a tight presidential race with battle between issues and attributes: POLL
ABC News / IPSOS Poll (NEW YORK) — Locked in a tight race for the presidency, Donald Trump prevails in trust to handle most issues in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, yet President Joe Biden [Read More…]
RFK Jr.’s ‘clever move’ to help earn ballot access nationwide: Allying with little-known parties
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speak at a press conference in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on May 1, 2024. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — One Saturday [Read More…]
Mayor Eric Adams defends NYPD response to campus protests
ABC News (NEW YORK) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday defended the police crackdown on campus protests there, which have become the epicenter of demonstrations around the country against the Israel-Hamas war. [Read More…]
Tom Cotton attacks campus protests, argues police should have gone in ‘on the very first day’
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton on Sunday pushed for an even stronger police response to pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses across the country as both arrests and controversy grow around the [Read More…]
FTC is ‘just getting started’ as it takes on Amazon, Meta and more, Chair Lina Khan says
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — In the nearly three years since President Joe Biden appointed Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission, the government agency has taken on some of America’s largest corporations, filing [Read More…]
6 months out, a tight presidential race with battle between issues and attributes: POLL
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Locked in a tight race for the presidency, Donald Trump prevails in trust to handle most issues in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, yet President Joe Biden scores competitively on [Read More…]
Jurors hear secret recording of Trump and Michael Cohen allegedly discussing hush money payment
DrPixel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jurors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Thursday were played a recording found on Michael Cohen’s phone, in which the two appeared to be discussing the alleged [Read More…]
Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, wife indicted on charges of bribes tied to Azerbaijan
Kevin Dietsch / Staff/Getty Images (TEXAS) — Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted Friday on charges of conspiracy and accepting nearly $600,000 in bribes from foreign entities, the Justice Department announced. [Read More…]
Columbia under investigation amid allegations of anti-Palestinian discrimination
WABC (NEW YORK) — Columbia University is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education following allegations of discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their supporters. Palestine Legal, an advocacy group centered on Palestinian Rights, [Read More…]
Former government official charged for falsely accusing colleagues of participating in Jan. 6 attack
Doug Armand/Getty Images (VIRGINIA) — A former government official in Virginia has been charged for allegedly submitting false tips to the FBI and accusing seven of his coworkers of participating in the Jan. 6 attack [Read More…]
Americans’ views divided on US policy toward Israel-Hamas war: POLL
Views divided on Israel-Hamas War. — ABC News/Ipsos (WASHINGTON) — Nearly four in 10 Americans in a new ABC News Ipsos poll say the United States is doing too much to support Israel in its [Read More…]
Biden set to award Presidential Medal of Freedom to Pelosi, Al Gore, Bloomberg, Michelle Yeoh and more
Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith (WASHINGTON) — The diverse group of names from politics to activists and entertainment include Biden’s 2020 Democratic primary opponents and former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg, former Vice President [Read More…]
‘Violent protest is not protected,’ Biden says of college campus unrest
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday spoke from the White House on college protests happening across the nation in connection with the Israel-Hamas war. “We’ve all seen images, and they put [Read More…]
Biden, speaking on campus protests, says both free speech and rule of law ‘must be upheld’
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday spoke from the White House on college protests happening across the nation in connection with the Israel-Hamas war. “We’ve all seen images and they put [Read More…]
Presidential debate commission sticks to schedule despite Trump’s urging
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Commission on Presidential Debates is pushing back against suggestions from the Trump campaign that it move its general debate calendar up — standing firm in its decision to hold [Read More…]
Biden faces pressure from Republicans to speak out on college protests
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is facing pressure from Republicans to more forcefully speak out on the college protests unfolding nationwide in connection to the Israel-Hamas war. The campus unrest has created [Read More…]
Members of Congress demand answers on Mario Andretti’s rejection from F1 races
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of bipartisan members of Congress are demanding answers from Formula 1 owner Liberty Media over why a U.S.-based team backed by racing legend Mario Andretti was excluded from [Read More…]
‘She killed her chances’: Kristi Noem’s odds dim of being Trump’s VP pick, sources say
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — South Dakota’s two-term Republican governor, Kristi Noem, has been widely promoted as a contender to be former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, with Trump himself saying that she was [Read More…]