Politics

ilbusca/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — The Democratic National Committee’s decision to have Chicago host its 2024 convention caps a lengthy decision making process, leaving many Democrats pleased but others in rival cities wishing they had gotten the nod. The DNC announced on Tuesday that the Windy City will hold the nominating convention, the party’s first full […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is proposing a rule that, if finalized, would open eligibility for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges to recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program. On Thursday, the White House announced the Department of Health and Human Services is planning to put […]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Thursday said it would take the fight over an abortion pill to the Supreme Court after an appeals court ruling that would restrict access to the widely-used abortion pill mifepristone. The appeals court ruling was set to take effect early Saturday morning. “The Justice Department strongly disagrees […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Coordinated groups of inauthentic accounts have been attempting to influence online conversations around the 2024 elections for the better part of a year, according to a recent investigation conducted by Cyabra, a social analysis firm. According to the Israel-based firm, someone created thousands of automated Twitter accounts that appear to […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to delay a writer’s defamation and battery case that is scheduled to go on trial this month, arguing the “deluge” of media coverage of his recent indictment on 34 criminal charges makes fairness impossible. The writer, E. Jean Carroll, sued Trump in November alleging he […]

Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An unprecedented ruling by a single federal judge in Texas on mifepristone is raising concerns of “judge shopping” in a legal clash that could reshape abortion access in the U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas, in his April 7 order, ruled to […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Wednesday launched his 2024 presidential exploratory committee. “I bear witness to what America can do for anyone, what she’s done for me. But we must rise up to the challenges of our time. This is a fight we must win. And that […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to delay a writer’s defamation and battery case that is scheduled to go on trial this month, arguing the “deluge” of media coverage of his recent indictment on 34 criminal charges makes fairness impossible. The writer, E. Jean Carroll, sued Trump in November alleging […]

Grace Cary/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — In the days after a federal judge in Texas ruled to reverse the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the widely used abortion medication mifepristone, Democrats have erupted in outrage. Republicans, who for years made abortion restrictions a centerpiece of their politics, have remained mostly mum on the […]

Pool/ABC News (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday made his first public comments on the leak of what appear to be top secret intelligence documents from the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies Austin, appearing at a news conference alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo, […]