Politics

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Monday indicted an Iranian man and two Canadian nationals in an alleged murder-for-hire scheme that targeted dissidents and critics of the Iranian regime. According to a newly-unsealed indictment, prosecutors say Naji Zindashti conspired with two Canadian men between December 2020 and March 2021 in […]

quavondo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional leaders on Sunday mourned three American service members killed in a drone strike in Jordan and called for retaliation against the Iran-backed militants whom the U.S. says is responsible. The deadly drone strike marks the first deaths of U.S. troops in the line of fire since the Israel-Hamas war broke […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Gen. CQ Brown Jr., the country’s top military officer, is an experienced U.S. Air Force fighter pilot who has surmounted many challenges in his nearly 40-year career, including once having to eject and land in the Florida Everglades, an experience that earned him the call sign “Swamp Thing.” “I didn’t see any […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is playing down the potential political fallout from former president Donald Trump’s latest legal setback — after the 2024 candidate was ordered by a New York jury to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $83 million for defaming her when she said he sexually assaulted her decades […]

ABC News (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a new interview that Democrats are right to fear the possible reelection of former President Donald Trump as he and other allies of President Joe Biden seek to create a clear “contrast” heading into November’s general election. Speaking to ABC News “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Sunday released two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — accusing him of “willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law” and “breach of public trust” and taking another step toward a historic attempt to remove him from office while he denies wrongdoing. “These […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Maine’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who requested last week for the high court to consider her earlier decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot under the 14th Amendment. Maine’s top trial court had just days earlier deferred ruling […]

by Marc Guitard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Thursday pushed back hard on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest showdown with President Joe Biden over who controls the southern border. In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, Abbott claimed the situation with immigrants crossing into Texas was an “invasion,” and that because […]

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rob Walker, a longtime business associate of Hunter Biden, said in a closed-door interview on Friday with the GOP-led House Oversight Committee that President Joe Biden “was never involved” in Hunter Biden’s business dealings, according to Walker’s opening statement obtained by ABC News. “To be clear, President Biden — while […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S.-led retaliatory strikes launched against Iranian-backed Houthi militants in the Red Sea are intended to prevent future conflict, and the U.S. does not want to “go down a path of greater escalation,” Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz […]