Politics

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — The Democratic National Committee near unanimously approved a reconfigured presidential primary calendar rubber-stamped by the White House at the group’s winter gathering on Saturday. A few nay votes were drowned out by a sea of “ayes,” followed by cheering from inside the Sheraton Hotel ballroom in Philadelphia. Under the new calendar, […]

Rep. Ilhan Omar speaks on the House floor before the vote to remove her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Feb. 2, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. – Pool via ABC News (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans on Thursday voted to kick Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar off the House Foreign Affairs Committee. They […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will deliver the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address next Tuesday, Feb. 7, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Thursday via Twitter. Sanders, 40, became the first woman elected to serve as Arkansas’ governor in November and is […]

James A. Jones Jr./The Bradenton Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has not made any significant public movements toward a presidential run, but his supporters are gearing up for one. While former President Donald Trump is so far the most prominent candidate to have announced a 2024 […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — As what U.S. officials call a massive surveillance balloon believed to be from China continued to fly over the continental United States, President Joe Biden faced growing pressure Friday to address the situation as Republicans said he needed to take stronger action against Beijing. In his […]

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Americans’ confidence in how police are trained and their treatment of Black people both have fallen to new lows in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Following the death of Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by Memphis, Tennessee police on Jan. 7, just 39 percent of adults in the national […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met Thursday with members of the Congressional Black Caucus to discuss pushing policing reform in the wake of the death of Tyre Nichols. As the group gathered in the Oval Office, Biden said it was his hope that the “dark memory” of […]

Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As hundreds of Democrats gather in Philadelphia this weekend for their annual winter meeting, the party is primed to create a smooth on-ramp for Biden to gear up for his reelection campaign, which a source says is expected to launch within months. The main business of the Democratic […]

Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The funeral for Tyre Nichols was filled with tributes for the 29-year-old who died after a violent encounter with police, and a call to action for reform. Nichols’ mother RowVaughn Wells, who addressed the mourners gathered in Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church through tears, said she needed the George Floyd Justice […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Trump Organization’s controller is expected to testify Thursday before a grand jury in New York that is investigating whether former President Donald Trump played a role in the hush payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election, sources familiar with the matter told […]