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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a U.S. Border Patrol station on Jan. 8, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are moving ahead [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Bob Menendez sought on Wednesday to dismiss the charges against him, arguing the government’s accusations that he sold his office and sold out his nation “are outrageously false, and indeed [Read More…]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Hunter Biden made a surprise appearance Wednesday on Capitol Hill, defiantly walking into a House committee hearing centered on whether to hold him in contempt. The move sparked outrage from [Read More…]

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a U.S. Border Patrol station on Jan. 8, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are moving [Read More…]

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden talks to reporters outside the U.S. Capitol, Dec.13, 2023 in Washington. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — A House panel will vote Wednesday on whether to hold Hunter Biden in [Read More…]

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas holds a press conference at a U.S. Border Patrol station on Jan. 08, 2024 in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Democratic members of the [Read More…]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (Sioux City, Iowa) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is working feverishly to close the gap between her and former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary, with new polling [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (DES MOINES, Iowa) — CNN is set to host the next debate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, just days ahead of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses on Monday. The debate, the first of [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Despite outside “distractions” the Department of Homeland Security is focused on keeping the American people safe, the acting deputy secretary told ABC News. Acting Deputy Secretary Kristie Canegallo said the department, [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was treated for prostate cancer in December, which led to a urinary tract infection and serious intestinal complications, the Pentagon said Tuesday — answering questions about his [Read More…]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (DES MOINES, Iowa) — High winds, freezing temperatures and heavy precipitation put most of Iowa under a winter storm warning this week — dropping up to 6 inches in observed snow in parts [Read More…]

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez went to the Senate floor Tuesday to defiantly address accusations of wrongdoing. Menendez, who has pleaded not guilty to all prior counts, pushed [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For weeks, former President Donald Trump’s campaign teased a ramp-up in events in the new year ahead of the Iowa caucuses next Monday. Yet, with only four weekend rallies [Read More…]

Digital Vision./Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Defense’s press secretary apologized Monday for not being more transparent about information regarding Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s recent hospitalization — which the White House learned about three [Read More…]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s federal election interference case was the victim of swatting Sunday night at her Washington, D.C., home, law enforcement sources told ABC News Monday. [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Christian Ziegler on Monday was voted out as chair of the Florida Republican Party, weeks after being pushed to resign from his position as police continue to investigate a [Read More…]

Creativeye99/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In his first visit to an early voting state this year, President Joe Biden on Monday in Charleston, South Carolina, warned MAGA Republicans led by former President Donald Trump “tried [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s a key question in a case that could not only set constitutional precedent but also have major consequences in the 2024 election: What is “presidential immunity” and how, if [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Christian Ziegler, who is facing a rape allegation that he denies, on Monday was voted out as the Florida Republican Party chair during a closed-door meeting in Tallahassee, a [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (GRIMES, Iowa) — In a new interview with ABC News, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis swiped at former President Donald Trump’s suggestion that an end to the Civil War could have been negotiated [Read More…]