Politics

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence Steve Bannon, adviser to former President Donald Trump, to six months in prison and make him pay a $200,000 fine for his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, according to a new court filing. “From the moment that […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot would need to negotiate with former President Donald Trump if he were to offer to testify live in response to the panel’s subpoena, Rep. Adam Kinzinger said Sunday. “I think that’s going to be a negotiation,” Kinzinger, R-Ill., a member of […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — With year-over-year inflation barely easing in the latest Consumer Price Index report despite sharp increases in interest rates meant to cool the economy, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Sunday that a recession is “possible but not inevitable.” Buttigieg was asked in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” if the threat of […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking a preliminary injunction as part of her $250 million civil lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to stop what she says is his ongoing fraudulent conduct. On the same day last month that James filed the lawsuit accusing Trump, his three […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — On the eve of the final Senate debate in Wisconsin, Democratic nominee Mandela Barnes pressed a new front in his fight against Republican incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson — arguing that Johnson “can’t be trusted” given his ties to the Jan. 6 push to keep Donald Trump in office. “We should […]

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the weeks before Jan. 6, several members of a far-right militia group discussed the possibility of violence breaking out around the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory, an FBI agent testified on Thursday. Under questioning by federal prosecutors, FBI special agent and witness Kelsey Harris read through a series […]

Roy Mehta/Getty Images/STOCK (WASHINGTON) — A “beta test” of the application for student loan relief went live on Friday evening, launching the Biden administration’s sweeping program to cancel student debt for tens of millions of Americans. The Department of Education’s test application is a long-awaited first step of the policy announced in late August, allowing people […]

Hill Street Studios/Getty Images/STOCK (SAVANNAH, Ga.) — Under the Friday night TV lights and locked in a tight political battle, Georgia’s Senate candidates debated for the first, and likely, only time. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and former football star and Republican nominee Herschel Walker met in Savannah, Georgia, on Friday, just three days before […]

Mark Makela/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Dr. Mehmet Oz rarely talks about his faith on the campaign trail — but, if elected, the son of Turkish émigrés could make history as the first Muslim elected to serve in the U.S. Senate. “Pride and honor,” Oz, the Pennsylvania GOP nominee, said in an interview last month when […]

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Billionaire Elon Musk says his space company SpaceX cannot keep funding its Starlink satellite internet service in Ukraine “indefinitely” and has sent a letter to the Pentagon to make that point. SpaceX’s Starlink terminals have been an important resource for Ukraine’s military on the battlefield and it remains unclear […]