Politics

Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Steve Bannon, former adviser to former President Donald Trump, is expected to surrender to prosecutors in New York on Thursday, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News. The details of the charges are unclear, however, the sources confirmed to ABC News that the charges […]

Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (AUSTIN, Texas) — Texas has spent over $12 million as of mid-August in busing migrants to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, a spokesperson for the Texas Division of Emergency Management told ABC News. The state agency utilizes a contract to charter the buses, which include private security, […]

krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Tuesday is primary day in Massachusetts, where attention turns to the GOP gubernatorial race between a Donald Trump-backed hopeful and a more “pragmatic” politician as Republicans aim to keep control of the executive office. Polls close at 8 p.m. ET. With state Attorney General Maura Healey now the presumptive […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When Democrats left Washington in August, they did so on the wings of a series of policy wins, leaving town after pushing through many of President Joe Biden’s key climate and health care proposals on party-line votes. But now, with midterms in November looming, the 50-50 Senate returns to Washington […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, a pro-union president, on Labor Day kicks off the the unofficial start of the fall campaign season ahead of the midterm elections with two cross-country stops in battleground states. Biden, the White House says, will deliver remarks “celebrating Labor Day and the dignity […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a win for Donald Trump, Judge Aileen Cannon has granted a request from the former president’s legal team to appoint a special master to review documents seized in the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago estate. The ruling will halt all reviews of the documents by the Justice Department in […]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge has sentenced former New York Police Department officer Thomas Webster to 10 years in prison for assaulting officers outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot. The sentence is the longest prison term yet for a defendant in the Justice Department’s criminal investigation […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms defended President Joe Biden’s prime-time address on Thursday, warning of the threat “MAGA” Republicans pose to American democracy on “This Week,” saying Biden spoke “optimistically” about the country, but also said that the nation needs to “call out hatred.” “This ‘MAGA’ Republican agenda, this hate-filled […]

Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WILKES-BARRE, Penn.) — In his first rally since the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home last month, former President Donald Trump took the stage in Pennsylvania for nearly two hours during which he responded to the raid on his home last month and President Joe Biden’s remarks earlier this week. “The […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Nearly one month since the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, cited the privileges given to Trump as a former president as justification for taking 15 boxes of classified documents out of the White House. “You know, I have lived in the classified world […]