Politics

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional Republicans, who have made Hunter Biden one of their top targets, signaled they’re not satisfied with the new indictment brought against him. Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday by special counsel David Weiss on felony gun charges. The three criminal counts are related to his 2018 purchase of a revolver […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (ATLANTA, GA) — An appeals court on Wednesday granted former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ request for an expedited review of his emergency motion seeking to block a lower court’s ruling that kept his Georgia election interference case in state court. Meadows appealed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals after Judge […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Mary Peltola’s, D-Alaska, office announced Wednesday that her husband died in a plane accident in Alaska. “We are devastated to share that Mary’s husband, Eugene Peltola Jr. — ‘Buzzy’ to all of us who knew and loved him — passed away earlier this morning following a plane accident in Alaska,” […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a new interview that he has “lots of regrets” about how the United States’ 20-year conflict in Afghanistan ended, telling ABC News’ Martha Raddatz that “in the broader sense, the war was lost.” August marked the two-year anniversary of […]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Tex.) — A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday ruled — again — that the federal government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is illegal, but he refrained from taking action to remove protections for the hundreds of thousands of young immigrants shielded under DACA. The program, which began […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (ATLANTA, GA) — The same federal judge who denied former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows’ effort to move his Fulton County election interference case to federal court has denied Meadows’ request for an emergency stay of the order, pending appeal. Judge Steve Jones said in his order Tuesday that Meadows “failed to show […]

SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images (ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — President Joe Biden marked the 22nd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in Alaska on Monday afternoon. “I join you on this solemn day to renew our sacred vow: never forget,” Biden said as he spoke to service members, first responders and their families at […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ push to overhaul the state’s expansive public records law stumbled at the start of a special legislative session she called this week, with Republican leaders late Monday reworking a bill to enact her changes as Sanders, who says the move is […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday he was ordering House Republicans to move ahead with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. “Today, I am directing our House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden,” McCarthy said at the U.S. Capitol in a short formal statement. […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the House returns from recess Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a new leadership showdown. He’s caught in the middle between a government shutdown threat from House Republican hard-liners demanding spending cuts, opposed to Ukraine aid and threatening to oust him if their demands aren’t met — and […]