Politics

Adria Malcolm/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has amended her emergency public health order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque, days after a judge temporarily blocked its enforcement. During a press briefing on Friday, Lujan Grisham announced that the amended order allows […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls campaign across the country, many have one pitch in common: a promise to eliminate federal agencies or otherwise dismantle the “administrative state.” At least five of the major candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, have endorsed doing […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The jury, consisting of Texas senators, has acquitted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on 16 articles of impeachment he faced in a rare Texas Senate impeachment trial after Paxton was suspended by the Texas House in May. The 16 articles were rejected overwhelmingly, with not even a simple majority voting […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy decided to move forward with an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump openly pushed Republicans to do more, claiming his political rival is a “crook,” which the White House denies as baseless. Sources tell ABC News that, this week, Trump also […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Oversight Committee will be launching a Republican-led probe into the federal response to the Maui wildfires, claiming Biden had “failed” in that effort when it came things such as government aid and housing assistance. In a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency leadership signed solely by House Republicans, […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Kennedy family members have long been standard-bearers in the Democratic Party — a fact Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to capitalize on in his bid to defeat President Joe Biden in the contest for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. But Kennedy — the nephew and son of party […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith and his team have requested a federal judge in Washington, D.C., impose a “narrowly tailored” order restricting former President Donald Trump from making public statements that they argue could “present a serious and substantial danger of prejudicing” his 2020 federal election interference case. In an extraordinary […]

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Illegal drugs are expected to be one of the biggest threats to national security in 2024 as overdose deaths topped 100,000 in the last year, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s annual threat study. In its report released Thursday, DHS said it expects illegal drugs produced in Mexico and […]

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden has been indicted by special counsel David Weiss on felony gun charges. The charges bring renewed legal pressure on the younger Biden after a plea agreement he struck with prosecutors imploded in recent months. The younger Biden has been charged with two […]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (MADISON, Wisc.) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Thursday filed a lawsuit on behalf of the state’s nonpartisan elections chief, Meagan Wolfe, whom the state Senate has just voted along party lines to fire. Kaul argued that the 22-11 vote in the Republican-led chamber has “no legal effect” and that Wolfe […]