Politics

David Crespo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Foreign actors are “likely” to use “information manipulation” to try to influence the 2022 election, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI warn in a new bulletin. “Foreign actors may intensify efforts to influence outcomes of the 2022 midterm elections by circulating or amplifying reports of real or […]

Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (PHOENIX) — Kicking off a season of senatorial debates in key battleground states, Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly and his Republican challenger Blake Masters will face off Thursday in Phoenix for their only debate — one week before early ballots go out in the state. Libertarian candidate Marc Victor will also […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he’s pardoning all Americans who’ve been convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law, coming closer to keeping a 2020 campaign promise to try to get the drug decriminalized a little more than a month before the midterm election. The executive action will benefit […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced he is taking executive action to pardon Americans who’ve been convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law. The action will benefit 6,500 people with prior federal convictions and thousands of others charged under the District of Columbia’s criminal code, according to senior administration […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — While Iran’s brutal attempts to put down nationwide protests — sparked by the death of a young woman in the custody of its so-called morality police — have done little to stop domestic dissent, the crackdown has dire implications for the regime on the international stage, […]

Paras Griffin/FilmMagic (ATLANTA) — Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said she has continuing doubts about voting equity in her upcoming rematch with incumbent Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, telling ABC News in a new interview that she would “not question the outcome of the election” but would continue to “question the process.” Abrams, a former state lawmaker-turned-prominent […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared side-by-side in hard-hit Fort Myers on Wednesday as the president surveyed damage from Hurricane Ian. The two leaders, often political opponents, have momentarily put politics aside to respond to the historic storm, which is shaping up to […]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump, in a limited request, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt part of an 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling and restore a special master’s access to classified documents seized from Mar-a-Lago while the Justice Department review continues. “The Eleventh Circuit lacked jurisdiction to review, […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will meet with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday as he visits the state in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed Biden will meet with the Republican governor, who has often been a political adversary, as he […]

Courtesty of Brenna Lyons (AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Brenna Lyons, a young mom living with her husband and toddler son in Augusta, Georgia, suffered a miscarriage last spring. The procedure she required to remove tissue from her uterus was the same used for a woman getting an abortion, called a “dilation and curettage.” At the time, […]