Politics

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul said Sunday that he’s concerned North Korea will demand concessions from the United States in exchange for releasing American Travis King, the soldier who last week fled across the border from South Korea. “Is he defecting? I think he was running from his problems,” McCaul, […]

ilbusca/Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Setting the stage for another legal battle in their state, Alabama’s Republican-led Legislature on Friday passed a new congressional map with just one majority-Black district and a second district that has less than 50% Black residents — a move that state Democrats denounced as a shameless rejection of a recent U.S. […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The record-high temperatures recorded around the world show “the climate change bomb has gone off” and Americans must push “further and faster” for solutions — including voting against “climate deniers” like former President Donald Trump — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday. “What the scientific community is telling us now is that […]

Stockbyte/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New details emerged Friday that might provide clues in the mystery about why a 23-year-old U.S. Army private crossed the border into North Korea earlier this week. A U.S. official confirms that on Sept. 4, 2022, Pvt. Travis King failed to report for his daily formation, and when reached away from […]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida Friday to keep up her “fight” back against new, controversial Black history standards approved unanimously this week by the state’s board of education. Among the changes approved Wednesday was a section of “benchmark clarifications,” and among those was one that states “instruction […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NORTH CONWAY, N.H.) — An independent voter at a meet-and-greet in New Hampshire on Friday told former Vice President Mike Pence that he was concerned with his place in the polls — and with the fact that Pence is not taking on former President Donald Trump harder as he leads the field for […]

Paul Marotta/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the 2024 presidential election heating up, debates over the role of third parties are beginning to simmer — and Democrats fear the Green Party could offer voters an enticing alternative who could hamper their chances in the general election. At the center of those concerns is newcomer presidential candidate […]

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Friday warned Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott that his administration’s use of ballards — or buoys — in the Rio Grande river to stop migrants could bring legal action. “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election did not meet on Friday, according to sources. Court security confirmed to ABC News Friday morning that the grand jury would not be convening. Special counsel Jack Smith informed Trump by letter […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week refused to call the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol an “insurrection” and blamed the press for having “spun up” the attack to “get as much mileage out of it and use it for partisan and political aims.” In Friday’s interview on […]