Politics

Christian Petersen/Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Democrat Kris Mayes is the winner of Arizona’s attorney general race, a state judge announced Thursday. Mayes defeated Republican Abraham Hamadeh by 280 votes after a mandatory recount was triggered due to how close they were separated after the initial tally in November, when Mayes led by roughly 500 votes […]

David Becker for the Washington Post (NEW YORK) — Federal prosecutors have started looking into public filings by congressman-elect George Santos amid questions about the source of his wealth, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The sources were careful not to characterize this as a formal investigation and stressed that prosecutors, at this […]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — David DePape, the man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer at their San Francisco Home, pleaded not guilty to state charges on Wednesday. The arraignment in San Francisco Superior Court comes two weeks after a judge ruled that DePape will face trial for the […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md. announced Wednesday he has a “serious but curable” form of cancer and will enter outpatient treatment. “After several days of tests, I have been diagnosed with Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma, which is a serious but curable form of cancer. I am about to embark on […]

WADE VANDERVORT/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New York Rep.-elect George Santos is facing mounting criticism from his future Democratic colleagues for fabricating parts of his biography — criticism that is coming from some of Santos’ fellow Republicans as well, though many in his party have not commented on the controversy, and some have defended […]

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawmakers are hammering Southwest Airlines over its spate of flight cancellations in recent days after a cold front blew in freezing temperatures and snow across broad swaths of the country during the holidays. While several airlines faced high levels of cancellations, Southwest canceled at least 70% of […]

joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a group of mostly Republican-led states and ordered the pandemic-era public health protocol known as Title 42 — which started in the early days of COVID-19 and allows the expulsion of migrants at the border — to remain in place pending […]

John Moore/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — There were 233,740 migrants apprehended along the U.S. southern border in November, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection- a 1% increase from October’s record – breaking apprehensions and marked the highest ever number of border crossings ever recorded for the month of November. CBP says there were 204,000 unique […]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Sunday blamed a politically motivated “stunt” for migrants being bused in subfreezing temperatures to Washington, D.C., the night before. Three buses carrying 139 migrants from Texas arrived Saturday outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence at the Naval Observatory, one advocate who greeted them told ABC News. […]

Jordan Vonderhaar/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday pushed back against the White House’s sharp criticism of him busing more migrants to Washington, D.C., over the weekend — where they arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ home on Christmas Eve in subfreezing temperatures. “The White House is full of […]