Politics

Henrik5000/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New Hampshire voters will choose between former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump in the Republican primary on Tuesday. However, it’s still unclear whether their neighbors to the north, in Maine, will have a similar set of options when it comes time for them to vote. Maine […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — A top White House national security official is defending the repeated U.S. strikes on Houthis in Yemen, amid attacks by the militant group on international ships in the Red Sea, which has drawn America into a pattern of back-and-forth retaliatory operations. “In terms of how this is playing out, I think one […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who endorsed Donald Trump after suspending his own Republican presidential campaign, on Sunday tried to downplay the former president’s inflammatory new attacks on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s name and heritage. When pressed by ABC News “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz on Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was hailed for much of last year as a rising Republican star, is ending his presidential campaign after he failed to overtake rival Donald Trump in polling or in the early vote of the 2024 race. DeSantis made his announcement in a four-and-a-half-minute video posted to […]

Orna and Ronen Neutra, whose son Omer is held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, hold pictures of him during a bipartisan press conference by lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Jan. 17, 2024, in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — American and Israeli families of hostages being held by Hamas came to Capitol […]

Richard Sharrocks/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed a stopgap measure to avoid a partial government shutdown that would have taken effect at the end of the day, the White House said. The measure keeping government funding going for a few more weeks until early March while Republicans and Democrats continue fighting […]

Florida GOP Chairman Christian Ziegler addresses attendees at the Republican Party of Florida Freedom Summit at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee. (SOPA Images / Contributor/Getty Images) (FLORIDA) — The Sarasota, Florida Police Department announced Friday they won’t be charging Christian Ziegler, the former chair of the Florida Republican Party, following an investigation into a […]

Diane Miller/Getty Images (SOUTH CAROLINA) — Newly released audio files show that the Marine Corps called 911 after one of their F-35 fighter jets went missing in South Carolina last September. The F-35 experienced what Marine Corps officials referred to as a “mishap” over the skies of the state’s Lowcountry region on Sept. 17, 2023, […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump is doubling down on his claims of “complete and total” presidential immunity as he awaits a decision from an appeals court on his effort to have his federal election interference case dismissed. Trump, appearing to go further than before, wrote on his social media platform on Thursday, in […]

Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Tim Scott is expected to endorse former President Donald Trump for president at a rally in New Hampshire Friday evening, sources confirmed to ABC News — delivering a blow to Nikki Haley, who appointed Scott to the Senate when she was South Carolina governor. The news, first […]