Politics

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several high-level allies of former President Donald Trump — including Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn — could potentially be called as witnesses in the first Georgia election interference trial next month, according to a court filing in the case. McDaniel and Epshteyn were among […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Just hours after another embarrassing setback for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in his quest to avert a government shutdown, members are headed home for the weekend – signaling that with just nine days to go, there is no funding deal in sight. There won’t be any other House votes for […]

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has arrested and charged an IT contractor with two counts of espionage for allegedly taking secret and top-secret information from the State Department and sending it to a foreign country. Abraham Teklu Lemma, a foreign national with U.S. citizenship, was working as an evening help desk technician assigned […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — To avert a shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House should still try to pass a Republican short-term funding measure next week in addition to the individual spending bills, despite GOP holdouts. “I would like to — you need to — because I don’t know how else in a shutdown,” […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy has been active on the campaign trail with her husband Vivek, an author and businessman running for the GOP presidential ticket, along with the rest of her family. Dr. Ramaswamy sat down with ABC News’ Linsey Davis to talk about their family, her husband’s campaign and his controversial […]

by Marc Guitard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced on Friday the establishment of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to help reduce the nation’s epidemic of gun violence. “He believes that now is the moment to accelerate our work to reduce gun violence, which is why he is establishing this […]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An auto strike impacting Michigan. A prominent GOP Senate recruit in Pennsylvania. A pending campaign launch from a hardliner in Arizona. News just in recent days has put the battleground map into sharp relief. But left out of the conversation is the nation’s erstwhile premier swing state: Florida. After a […]

Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is doubling down on strategies to contain migration as unauthorized border crossings surge across the southwest. The number of migrants apprehended in a single day by the U.S. Border Patrol approached an estimated 9,000 on Wednesday, according to officials who declined to be identified to discuss preliminary […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal grand jury in New York has returned a sweeping indictment against United States Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, in connection with improper foreign relations and business dealings. The investigation focused on a luxury car, gold bars and an apartment allegedly received […]

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A top Department of Commerce official’s visit to South Korea is intended to “find ways to deepen and strengthen” the connection between the two countries, and to build off the President of South Korea’s state visit to the United States earlier this year, according to the Deputy Secretary […]