Politics

Megan Varner/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Less than 24 hours after accusing his father of “destroying” lives following a report in the Daily Beast that an ex-girlfriend claimed Georgia GOP Senate hopeful Herschel Walker paid the cost of her abortion more than a decade ago, Christian Walker has doubled down on his scathing response in a […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (UVALDE, Texas) — Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke rolled out an ad campaign Saturday featuring tearful endorsements from families of victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde. Many Uvalde families have continued to voice how unheard they feel by their representatives as they plead for gun control statewide and […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats in key swing states like Arizona and Michigan have refused to face opponents who espouse the false claim that the 2020 race was stolen from former President Donald Trump. These Democratic politicians say they want to avoid combative spectacles with people who are attacking the election system without evidence […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new Biden administration report on abortion access in the U.S. describes how widely the procedure has been curtailed in the roughly 100 days after Roe v. Wade was overturned, according to excerpts from the memo that were obtained by ABC News. The report, compiled by Jen Klein, the head […]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson testified Monday during the illegal foreign lobbying trial of former Donald Trump ally Tom Barrack that he never asked Barrack to undertake any diplomacy on behalf of the United States during his year-long stint as Trump’s secretary of state. “Did you ever ask […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Monday headed to Puerto Rico and will visit Florida Wednesday after hurricanes ravaged the two areas. In Puerto Rico, the Bidens will survey damage from Hurricane Fiona, which killed more than two dozen people on the island […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected two appeals by gun owners seeking to overturn the federal government’s ban on the sale of bump stocks — devices that allow a semiautomatic firearm to shoot more than one shot with a single pull of the trigger. The court did not elaborate […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Marco Rubio and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell on Sunday detailed the destruction Ian wreaked in Florida as Rubio said there’s no “comparison” between the deadly hurricane and past storms. “I don’t think it has a comparison, not in Florida,” Rubio, R-Fla., told “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan […]

Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Sen. Rick Scott, a member of Republican leadership in the upper chamber, said Sunday that he does not “condone violence” after Donald Trump lashed out at Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell and suggested McConnell had a “death wish”– but Scott stopped short of condemning the former president. […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ginni Thomas, the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, appeared in person at the House Jan. 6 committee’s offices on Thursday morning for a closed-door interview. Cameras caught Ginni Thomas walking to the conference room around 9:30 a.m. Her meeting ended around 2 p.m. The select committee investigating […]