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Cost of US effort to build humanitarian aid pier off Gaza expected to top $180M
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s plan to build a humanitarian pier floating off the coast of Gaza that could enable delivery of food, water and medicine into the devastated region is expect to [Read More…]
Mayorkas impeachment proceedings pushed to next week: Speaker Johnson
Michael Godek/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson’s office said Tuesday that it will delay the transmission of two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — pushing the process’ start until next [Read More…]
Arizona Supreme Court further restricts abortion, enforcing near-total ban
Getty Images – STOCK (PHOENIX, Ariz.) — The Arizona Supreme Court has allowed a near-total abortion ban from 1864 to go into effect, only permitting care to save the life of the mother. The decision [Read More…]
Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg faces perjury sentencing
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Allen Weisselberg, once the long-serving chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, will be sentenced Wednesday to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony [Read More…]
Judge declines to postpone Trump hush money trial, will consider whether to relax gag order
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York appeals court judge declined to postpone the April 15 trial in former President Donald Trump’s hush money case. The full Appellate Division First Department will consider [Read More…]
Judge to hear Trump appeal of limited gag order in hush money case
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York appellate court on Tuesday will hear former President Donald Trump’s appeal of a limited gag order imposed on him by the judge overseeing his hush money [Read More…]
In scathing letter, GOP’s Marjorie Taylor Greene slams Johnson with speakership under threat
Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — The House is back in session Tuesday after a two-week-long Easter recess, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is ratcheting up her attacks on Speaker Mike Johnson in a letter [Read More…]
House returns with Johnson’s speakership under threat
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House is back in session Tuesday after a two-week-long Easter recess, and Speaker Mike Johnson is returning with his speakership under threat after fellow Republican Rep. [Read More…]
Judge releases questionnaire for jury selection process in Trump hush-money trial
Former President Donald Trump speaks to guests at a rally on Apr. 2, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — As Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday afternoon attempted to convince an appellate [Read More…]
Special counsel files brief urging Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim in new filing
Special Counsel Jack Smith delivers remarks on a recently unsealed indictment including four felony counts against former President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The office of special [Read More…]
Mike Pence calls Trump’s abortion position ‘a slap in the face’
Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks to reporters after his remarks at the Pray Vote Stand Summit in Washington, D.C., Sep. 15, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, [Read More…]
Gen Z activists in abortion debate poised to play pivotal role in 2024 election
Two 22-year-old college seniors, Hadley Duvall (left) and Morgan Reece (right) find themselves on opposite sides of the abortion debate. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — Gen Z activists on both sides of the abortion debate [Read More…]
Judge denies Donald Trump’s last-minute attempt to delay hush money trial in New York
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A judge has denied former President Donald Trump’s last-minute attempt Monday to delay his criminal trial in New York and move the case out of Manhattan. Judge Lizbeth Gonzalez [Read More…]
Defying GOP threats of contempt, DOJ declines to hand over audio of Biden’s interview with Robert Hur
Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department informed House Republicans on Monday it has no plans to hand over an audio recording of President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur, [Read More…]
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas impeachment proceedings: What to expect
John Moore/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After voting in February to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, impeachment proceedings will head to the next stage on Wednesday, when the articles of impeachment are expected to be [Read More…]
Trump’s abortion position leaves key questions unanswered on major campaign issue
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated his role in ending national guarantees to abortion access and indicated that he believes the issue, which political experts of both parties believe [Read More…]
US, Japan to make ‘historic’ announcements at summit: Official
Sean Gallup/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When President Joe Biden hosts Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House for an official visit Wednesday, a senior administration official tells ABC News the two countries will [Read More…]
Trump says abortion should be a states’ rights issue, Republicans ‘must also win elections’
Arturo Jimenez/Anadolu via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of dodging questions about his abortion position, former president Donald Trump rejected calls to endorse a national abortion ban, saying he believes it should be [Read More…]
President Biden to announce more student loan relief plans
People walk on the campus of the University of Southern California on March 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Biden is set to announce new student debt [Read More…]
Israeli reforms after strike on aid workers must be verified to restore ‘confidence,’ White House says
ABC News White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday that reforms by Israel after its deadly strike on an aid convoy in Gaza last week have to be verified over time to [Read More…]