Politics

Omar Marques/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House said Friday that a ‘high-altitude object’ has been shot down over Alaska. President Joe Biden ordered the shootdown, spokesman John Kirby said, adding that the origin of the object has yet to be determined. Responding to reporters’ shouted questions about the shootdown Friday afternoon outside the White House, […]

Peter Dazeley/Getty Imges/STOCK (WASHINGTON) — Revoking the government’s decades-old approval of an abortion medication would represent a “dangerous attack” on public health, the attorneys general from 21 states and the District of Columbia told a Texas judge on Friday. In a brief filed in the district federal court, the nearly two dozen state lawyers — each […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — It appears President Joe Biden will not sit down for an interview to air on Super Bowl Sunday after all. The White House first said Friday that Biden wanted to do this year’s interview with Fox Soul, a Fox network aimed at a Black audience, but that Fox Corp “asked for […]

Kelly Livingston/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — In the six months since the launch of the national, government-backed 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, contact and answer rates have risen dramatically, while the average speed to answer has dropped, according to Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration data. “As we expected, there’s been a significant increase in […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Adding to the Democratic chorus of condemnation for Florida GOP Sen. Rick Scott’s proposal to “sunset” all federal legislation every five years — including Social Security — is Republican leader Mitch McConnell. “I mean, it’s just a bad idea,” McConnell said as he spoke to Kentucky radio host Terry Meiners on […]

Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security is bringing in an outside law firm to help deal with any GOP-led impeachment inquiry into secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a DHS spokesperson told ABC News Friday. “The Department of Homeland Security has retained outside counsel to help ensure the Department’s vital mission is not interrupted […]

John Moore/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Migrant apprehensions along the southwest border last month hit the lowest level since February 2021, according to new data released by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Friday. The Border Patrol arrested and detained migrants 128,410 times in January, down 42 percent from December 2022, according to CBP. Overall, […]

RYAN M. KELLY/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI is conducting a consensual search of former Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana Friday following the discovery of documents with classification markings last month, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The Department of Justice had been in contact with Pence’s legal team […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Federal Election Commission is asking embattled Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., to clarify by March 14 if he’s running again in 2024, according to a letter sent by the agency. The letter, sent to Santos on Tuesday, noted that his primary campaign committee, Devolder-Santos for Congress, reported raising and spending […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — At the first public hearing by the House Judiciary subcommittee committee on the alleged “weaponization” of the federal government, Republicans on Thursday continued to make arguments criticizing federal agencies and “big tech” companies like Twitter while Democrats called the hearing an effort to “showcase conspiracy theories.” Much of what Republicans […]