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ABC News cancels New Hampshire Republican primary debate
Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a caucus night watch party in West Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg via Getty [Read More…]
No snow day for the Senate as Congress looks to avert a government shutdown
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The snowstorms pummeling much of the country — including D.C. — will keep the majority of the federal government at home Tuesday, but not the Senate, whose members are expected to [Read More…]
US carries out new airstrike against Houthis in Yemen
Yemeni protestors loyal to the Houthi movement march as they participate in a protest held against Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza. CREDIT: Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. has carried out another airstrike [Read More…]
Two missing Navy SEALs were part of mission that seized Iranian missile parts headed for Houthis: US
A dhow was identified, Jan. 10, 2024, and an assessment was made that the dhow was in the process of smuggling. CREDIT: USCENTCOM (NEW YORK) — The two U.S. Navy SEALs missing in the Gulf [Read More…]
Republican Asa Hutchinson ends 2024 presidential campaign
Henrik5000/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson is ending his 2024 race for president after a dismal sixth-place showing in the Iowa caucuses underscored how little he had been embraced by Republican [Read More…]
Nikki Haley says she will only debate Donald Trump or Joe Biden
Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and 2024 Republican presidential candidate, speaks during a caucus night watch party in West Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg via Getty [Read More…]
Vivek Ramaswamy ends 2024 campaign after disappointing in Iowa
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (DES MOINES, IOWA) — Vivek Ramaswamy is ending his 2024 presidential campaign on Monday night after a disappointing result in Iowa’s Republican caucuses despite spending months in the state trying to woo [Read More…]
‘Very’ conservative Iowa caucus electorate say they had minds made up: ANALYSIS
Nathan Howard/Bloomberg/Getty Images (DES MOINES, IOWA) — A highly conservative electorate focused on immigration, the economy and rejection of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory cast the first votes in the 2024 presidential contest in Monday [Read More…]
Impressions of Iowa as 2024 campaign frenzy comes to an end: Reporter notebooks
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (DES MOINES, IOWA) — After a seemingly endless stream of rallies, bus tours, campaign stops and more, the 2024 Republican field’s convergence on Iowa will come to an end on Monday when [Read More…]
Biden campaign weighs in on Iowa caucuses: Candidates all ‘singing the same, terrible song’
Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Monday night’s Iowa caucuses are the first chance for voters to weigh in on the Republican presidential candidates — and President Joe Biden’s campaign has already readied their argument on the results. Advisers [Read More…]
Kamala Harris laughs off Nikki Haley’s criticism: ‘Let’s see what Iowa says to her!’
Ethan Miller/Getty Images (COLUMBIA, SC) — Vice President Kamala Harris weighed in on the Republican primary field in an exclusive interview with ABC News on Monday, hours before the Iowa caucuses commenced. Harris responded to attacks from Republican [Read More…]
DHS threatens to take ‘appropriate action’ against Texas over border access
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security has threatened the state of Texas — saying the state is acting unconstitutionally in blocking Customs and Border Protection’s access to Shelby Park in Eagle [Read More…]
Houthi militants strike US-owned commercial ship with anti-ship ballistic missile
alxpin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Houthi militants on Monday struck a U.S.-owned and operated container ship with an anti-ship ballistic missile, according to U.S. Central Command. “The ship has reported no injuries or significant damage [Read More…]
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin released from hospital
ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday following a two-week stay for treatment of an infection after earlier prostate cancer surgery. The delay in informing [Read More…]
Five things to watch for in the Iowa caucuses
Henrik5000/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The 2024 primary season is finally beginning, with Iowa kicking it off with its first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses on Monday. Former President Donald Trump is the overwhelming favorite to win the [Read More…]
Trump, Haley and DeSantis supporters talk Iowa caucuses, issues
adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of hearing from presidential candidates, Iowans will face frigid temperatures Monday evening as they register their preferences in the first-in-the-nation Republican 2024 caucuses. In a state of a [Read More…]
Iowa 2024 caucus results
Henrik5000/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses are on Monday night. The Republican caucuses will be held at 7 p.m. CST — or 8 p.m. EST — at precinct locations in all 99 counties. [Read More…]
Republican voters look like they’re sticking with Trump: Is the primary too ‘boring’ to matter?
ABC News Kurt Kreuger attended a presidential campaign event for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday — not that he felt it would make much of a difference. Kreuger, [Read More…]
If Trump is GOP nominee, 2024 race will be focused on his legal troubles: DeSantis
ABC News If former President Donald Trump is the Republican nominee in the 2024 election, the race will be overshadowed by the legal issues and other controversies he’s facing, creating a potent advantage for Democrats, [Read More…]
Pritzker downplays Biden’s poor polling, says 2024 will be race against ‘MAGA Republicans’
ABC News Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, one of President Joe Biden’s top surrogates, on Sunday downplayed Biden’s continued poor polling ahead of a likely rematch with former President Donald Trump in the 2024 race. Pritzker’s [Read More…]