Politics

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As Republicans gathered Friday for Day 2 of the Iowa State Fair, news broke in Washington that the U.S. attorney investigating Hunter Biden was being elevated to special counsel. Several candidates in the 2024 GOP field welcomed the development, with former Vice President Mike Pence telling reporters it’s “about time.” […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The judge overseeing special counsel Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 case against former President Donald Trump says Trump has a right to free speech — but it’s not absolute. Judge Tanya Chutkan is hearing arguments Friday morning on the terms of a protective order Smith is seeking against the former president. Smith […]

ilbusca/Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — Republicans suffered their latest electoral setback on a vote related to abortion, this time over a referendum in Ohio on Tuesday, leaving party operatives who spoke with ABC News saying the same thing: The GOP still hasn’t figured out how to talk about the issue. The conservative-led effort in Ohio […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (SANDUSKY, Ohio) — Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose put Ohio’s Issue 1, a measure that could have ultimately hindered statewide attempts at protecting abortion access, at the center of his recently announced campaign for Senate. But now, after voters defeated the Republican-backed ballot measure, LaRose is left searching for a new […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (DES MOINES, Iowa) — Grilling pork chops, chowing down on corn dogs, visiting the famous “Butter Cow” dairy sculpture: these festivities and more await the 2024 presidential candidates starting Thursday at the Iowa State Fair. The fair, an annual celebration of Iowa’s agriculture industry, is a rite of passage for presidential […]

ELIJAH NOUVELAGE/AFP via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has responded to a recent attack ad from former President Donald Trump, writing in an internal memo sent to staff urging them not to respond and reminding them that “we have a job to do,” according to a copy of the memo […]

Julia Nikhinson/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Wednesday released a 19-page memo with “new information obtained in the [Oversight] Committee’s investigation into the Biden family’s influence peddling schemes,” according to Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the panel’s chairman. But an initial review of the document indicates that the conduct it describes draws heavily from […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WAILUKU, Hawaii) — Hawaii residents recounted fleeing from deadly, ferocious wildfires, which have prompted an emergency proclamation from the acting governor. “We started smelling the smoke, and that’s when we knew we had trouble,” Maui resident Steve Scott ABC News’ Gio Benitez on Wednesday. “It came, and it came quick.” The wildfires are spreading […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith obtained a search warrant for records and data from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account earlier this year, newly revealed court documents show. The existence of the search warrant was confirmed in a new order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, which […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Delivering a win for abortion rights advocates, Ohio’s Issue 1 will fail, according to projections. The Republican-backed ballot initiative would have increased the threshold to amend the state’s constitution, making it more difficult for a measure that would enshrine abortion rights into the state’s constitution to pass later this […]