Politics

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday denied the Department of Justice’s request for a partial stay of her ruling that enjoined the FBI from using roughly 100 documents seized from Mar-a-Lago with classification markings in its ongoing criminal investigation of Donald Trump — and mandated they be handed over […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday took a political victory lap after railway companies and unions reached a tentative labor agreement overnight — averting a strike that threatened to paralyze the nation’s supply chain and transportation rail service. Speaking from the White House Rose Garden, Biden called […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham’s proposal this week of a 15-week national abortion ban — with limited exceptions — has drawn mixed reaction from other conservatives in the final eight weeks before the November midterms, after which Graham hopes to bring his bill up for a vote. The announcement […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As freight railroad carriers and a coalition of unions representing their workers move ever closer to a potential strike, a clash has erupted in Congress over whether and how to intervene in a labor dispute that could have devastating effects across an economy already buffeted by high inflation and recessionary […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After Tuesday’s elections in Delaware, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, the six-month-long 2022 primary season has finally come to a close — and the party nominees now turn their attention to the eight weeks before November’s midterms. A lot can change in the close of the campaign — just as […]

eyecrave productions/Getty Images (CHARLESTON, W.Va.) — West Virginia legislators approved a bill that bans nearly all abortions in the state, sending it to Gov. Jim Justice’s desk for approval before it becomes law. Known as HB 302, the bill approved by state legislators Tuesday prohibits the procedure at virtually every stage of pregnancy. However, there […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says the FBI seized his cellphone on Tuesday as he waited for his food order in a Hardee’s parking lot in Minnesota. In a phone interview with ABC News Tuesday night, Lindell, a fierce supporter of former President Donald Trump who has continued to try […]

ABC News, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Kenneth Starr, the polarizing former independent counsel who led a highly publicized investigation of then-President Bill Clinton, has died at the age of 76, according to his family. He died at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston of complications from surgery, his family said. The high-powered Washington lawyer, who […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Less than two months before the midterm elections, Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday introduced a bill that would impose a nationwide ban on most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The measure, the first GOP effort to ban abortion at the national level since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is hosting a celebration of the Inflation Reduction Act at the White House on Tuesday, highlighting a big political win for him and congressional Democrats eight weeks before midterm elections. The health care, climate and tax law passed Congress earlier this summer, and […]