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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is going on the offense in an effort to save his speakership after fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust him just [Read More…]

Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. and Israeli officials will hold a virtual meeting Monday to continue to discuss the standoff over the Biden administration’s opposition to Israel invading the southern Gazan city Rafah, a [Read More…]

Tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, Mar. 30, 2024. — Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. and Israeli officials will hold a virtual [Read More…]

ABC News The White House is pushing back against top Republicans’ misleading criticism of President Joe Biden for issuing a proclamation in support of transgender people on the same day as Easter. A spokesman for [Read More…]

ABC News Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday tore into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what Van Hollen said was Netanyahu’s refusal to acquiesce to President Joe Biden’s requests for more humanitarian action [Read More…]

ABC News The Islamic State terror group has a “strong desire” to attack the U.S. and other foreign powers, the former head of U.S. Central Command warned on Sunday, calling it a threat that is [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago / Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two days after former President Donald Trump targeted the daughter of the judge overseeing his New York hush money case on social media, lawyers for the [Read More…]

Sean Rayford / Stringer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Marianne Williamson, the author and spiritualist who has been one of President Joe Biden’s few primary challengers in the 2024 presidential race, suspended and unsuspended her campaign [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago / Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants on Friday filed their appeal of the disqualification ruling that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis [Read More…]

WABC (NEW YORK) — Several Democratic leaders who honored the life and legacy of former Sen. Joe Lieberman at his funeral Friday remembered the man who represented Connecticut for over two decades as a calming [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, top lawmakers and administration officials are condemning Russia’s wrongful detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich and reiterating their commitment to bringing him home. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal [Read More…]

Patti Peeples said that squatters were illegally living in her empty property. Via ABC (NEW YORK) — Patti Peeples says she was taken by surprise last year when she discovered her unoccupied home in Jacksonville, [Read More…]

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday officially invited President Joe Biden to testify before the panel as part of a Republican-led impeachment inquiry into allegations that Biden used [Read More…]

Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Thursday that the impeachment articles for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be sent over to the Senate on April 10, [Read More…]

Via ICE (NEW YORK) — Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 216 noncitizens who faced criminal charges and convictions as part of the agency’s latest nationwide operation, officials said on Thursday as they also singled out [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden is teaming up with two of his Democratic predecessors — former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — to ramp up enthusiasm for his reelection campaign [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The California State Bar has recommended that former Trump election attorney John Eastman be disbarred, a judge said in a filing on Wednesday. Eastman was charged with multiple disciplinary [Read More…]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans accomplished a longtime goal in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, scrapping constitutional protections for abortion. They’ve been faced with seemingly monthly electoral setbacks ever since, [Read More…]

ftwitty/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Attorneys for Donald Trump said that Trump’s comments “calling into question” the election of 2020 were “the height of political speech,” in arguments seeking the dismissal of the former president’s Georgia [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman has died, his family announced Wednesday. He was 82 years old. Lieberman died in New York City “due to complications from a fall,” his family [Read More…]