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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats walked out before Republicans voted on Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nomination of Emil Bove — the controversial top Justice Department official who formerly served [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats walked out before Republicans voted on Thursday to advance President Donald Trump’s nomination of Emil Bove — the controversial top Justice Department official who formerly served [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate narrowly approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion from the federal budget, including funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. The final vote early Thursday [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, met Wednesday with congressional Democrats in Washington as he continues his outreach to members of New York’s [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Even after President Donald Trump called some of his followers “stupid” and “foolish” for their persistent calls for his administration to divulge the details of the Jeffrey Epstein files, many [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than 900 former Justice Department employees sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday urging lawmakers to vote down the nomination of Emil Bove, the controversial top DOJ [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump continues to face backlash from his MAGA supporters over his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The Justice Department and FBI said in a brief memo [Read More…]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A total of 10 Republican senators are urging the Trump administration to reverse its decision to withhold more than $6 billion in federal funds for education programs already appropriated by [Read More…]

Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Trump asked a group of Republican lawmakers how they felt about him firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and told them he would “likely” fire Powell “soon,” [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump continued Wednesday to dismiss calls within his own party for more transparency into the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and made claims, without evidence, that the controversy was designed [Read More…]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans are expected to move forward on Wednesday with efforts to codify some of the Department of Government Efficiency cuts to programs such as the U.S. Agency for International [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Wednesday followed directions from President Donald Trump to move forward with a package of legislation that includes three cryptocurrency measures — a day after hard-liners defied the [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told reporters that former Vice President Kamala Harris and former first lady Jill Biden “should” be subpoenaed in the panel’s investigation into former President Joe [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Just as the Senate began debate on the rescissions package that would strip the Corporation for Public Broadcasting of two years’ worth of its funding, the Trump administration filed a [Read More…]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired two top deputies at the Department of Health and Human Services, ABC News has learned. Heather Flick Melanson, Kennedy’s chief of [Read More…]

Wolterk/ Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is praising an Internal Revenue Service’s court filing, which effectively clears the way for churches to endorse political candidates — a reversal of decades of legal precedent. [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was in the news for his arrest for sex trafficking and eventual death in 2019, Democrats distanced themselves from the onetime donor, [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to “come forward and explain” the Trump administration’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein files. In an interview with podcaster Benny [Read More…]

Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva joined concerned citizens of SE Arizona in front of Tucson’s Federal Building to protest an open pit copper mining project that would destroy the Santa Rita Mountains, May 3, 2025. [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After an earlier setback for the Trump administration when House Republicans failed to advance a key procedural vote on a package of legislation including three crypto measures, President Donald Trump [Read More…]