Politics

photo by Bill Koplitz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Biden administration is launching an application for a new student loan repayment plan Tuesday as part of its latest attempt to offer relief to borrowers as payments resume despite significant political hurdles. “This plan is a game changer for millions of Americans, many of whom are […]

d3sign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Mar-a-Lago Information Technology worker’s decision to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith and change his previous testimony paved the way for prosecutors to seek new obstruction charges against former President Donald Trump and two other aides in a superseding indictment in Smith’s classified documents case last month, sources familiar […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — In a sit-down interview with ABC News, Miami mayor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Francis Suarez took repeated aim at one of his party’s most prominent White House hopefuls — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — while suggesting he saw some problems with the prosecution of front-runner Donald Trump, who denies […]

Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will visit Maui on Monday to observe the damage and recovery from devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island that started earlier this month. Biden had been criticized by conservatives for what they contended was his relative silence on the disaster, which officials say […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will see the “complete and utter devastation” from the Maui wildfires in Hawaii when he visits Monday but also offer a sense of “hope,” Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell said Sunday. “I think the biggest thing is, he’s going to be able to see what I saw […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Mike Pence, eager for the opportunity to debate his boss of four years, suggested former President Donald Trump might still debate in Milwaukee this week — despite sources indicating he’s unlikely to attend. Pressed by co-anchor Jonathan Karl in an interview for ABC’s “This Week” Sunday on what it […]

Chris Clor/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of influential Republicans are preparing for the possibility that their party will retake the White House next fall — and, if they do, they’re planning to scale back on the federal government’s oversight of online misinformation. The proposal is part of Project 2025, a sweeping new initiative led […]

Digital Vision./Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The three U.S. military academies must implement changes to stem an increase in sexual assaults, according to a Pentagon study released Thursday that showed cadets and midshipmen were receiving “mixed messages” about prevention measures due in part to a toxic culture of hazing and climate of “cynicism, distrust and stigma.” […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump, facing criminal charges in Georgia, is again going on the attack about the state’s 2020 election results. On Thursday night on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump made more unsubstantiated claims about he called the “rigged” and “stolen” election in Georgia. He was expected to keep […]

ABC News (DES MOINES, Iowa) — As former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson still works to make the debate stage in Milwaukee, he’s urging other Republican candidates to do more to take on former President Donald Trump, who now faces four criminal indictments. Asked by ABC News Correspondent MaryAlice Parks in a sit-down interview at the Iowa […]