Politics

Gabe Ferris, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — A Senate committee will soon take up a bill that would more than double the minimum wage — though the legislation’s chances of passage are slim. Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont who chairs the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said a $17-an-hour minimum wage […]

Philip Pacheco/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison following his conviction along with other members of the anti-government militia group on charges of seditious conspiracy and other felonies stemming from their involvement in the Jan. 6 attack […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Americans divide closely on whom they’d blame if the federal government defaults on its debts, even as most align with the Biden administration’s position on how Congress should handle the issue. If default occurs — as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Monday could happen by June 1 — 39% in this […]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new piece of legislation being introduced this week would make sharing non-consensual AI-generated pornography illegal in the United States, and open up new legal avenues for those impacted. “This bill aims to make sure there are both criminal penalties, as well as civil liability for anyone […]

Matt Miller/ABC (WASHINGTON) — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is leaving the agency, President Joe Biden announced. Walensky, who will leave at the end of June, said in a statement, “The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) – The Supreme Court has granted a rare stay of execution in the case of Richard Glossip, the Oklahoma death row inmate who the state’s attorney general now says may be innocent. Glossip’s execution was scheduled for May 18. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Copyright © […]

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Brandon Presley doesn’t want to be compared to Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear or any of the other Democratic governors elected in recent cycles to serve in reliably red states like Kansas and Louisiana. “Let me be clear about this … I’m my own man,” Presley in an interview […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Thursday adamantly denied U.S. involvement in an alleged drone attack on the Kremlin after a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of directing Ukraine in carrying it out. While the United States may never “fully understand” what occurred in Russia on Wednesday, the […]

Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump on Thursday sought to move his New York City criminal case to federal court since, his lawyers said, “the indictment charges [him] for conduct committed while he was President of the United States that was within the ‘color of his office.’” Trump has […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a trial lasting several months, a jury in Washington on Thursday handed the Justice Department a major victory, reaching a verdicts in the Proud Boys Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the […]