Politics

Scott Eisen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With less than a month until the first votes are cast in the 2024 Republican primary, former President Donald Trump spent his latest rally in New Hampshire praising multiple authoritarian leaders and quoting Russian President Vladimir Putin to try and discredit the criminal indictments against him — while sparking new backlash […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump lost his bid to invoke an immunity defense to E. Jean Carroll’s remaining defamation claim on Wednesday, clearing the way for a trial on damages to begin next month in New York. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Trump waived the defense of […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House kicked off its holiday recess Thursday while the Senate will return to Washington next week as Congress faces a long to-do list that includes aid to Ukraine and Israel, which President Joe Biden says is urgently needed. A massive military aid package for Israel and Ukraine remains stalled […]

President Joe Biden delivers a statement urging Congress to pass his national security supplemental from the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Dec. 6, 2023. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As war continues between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack, President Joe Biden has drawn both […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (DETROIT) — Michigan’s Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday that former President Donald Trump could remain on the state’s 2024 GOP primary ballot and wouldn’t be disqualified from running in the state under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The Michigan court upheld two lower courts’ rulings by rejecting an appeal filed by […]

In this Oct. 21, 2020, file photo, Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff, speaks to members of the media outside of the White House in Washington, D.C. Polaris via Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (ATLANTA) — A panel of judges on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear arguments Friday […]

Former U.S. first lady Melania Trump delivers remarks during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives on December 15, 2023 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former first lady Melania Trump delivered remarks Friday at a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives in Washington. It was a rare public appearance from Melania […]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Chris Christie has become the first Republican presidential candidate to take an unequivocal stance on the headline-making case of Kate Cox, a Texas woman who was denied an abortion by the state Supreme Court ruling after she learned of her fetus’ fatal diagnosis. Christie, a former New Jersey governor, […]

Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Controversial former Iowa Rep. Steve King is backing Republican Vivek Ramaswamy in his home state’s caucuses — with Ramaswamy telling ABC News that shared opposition to proposed pipelines to capture carbon dioxide is what “brought us together.” King, who has been introducing Ramaswamy at some events, cited their mutual […]

Meg Mistry/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley sought to draw a distinction with Donald Trump, her former boss and the Republican primary front-runner, in a new interview with ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl. Appearing alongside New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a top Trump critic who endorsed her earlier this week, Haley […]