Politics

Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — President Joe Biden, in a rare prime-time speech, condemned Donald Trump and his “MAGA Republicans” as he urged the nation to unite against threats to American democracy. Biden took the stage shortly after 8 p.m. on Thursday at Independence Historical Park in Philadelphia, where several hundred people were sitting […]

ABC News (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — The battle over a Senate seat is hot in swing state Ohio. Democratic nominee Rep. Tim Ryan is locked in a competitive race with Republican opponent J.D. Vance, who picked up $28M in airtime funding from a PAC aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. ABC News hit the campaign trail, […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WILKES-BARRE, Pa.) — Former President Donald Trump is campaigning for Republicans in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on Saturday in what will be his first rally since federal agents searched his Florida home last month. Trump will speak at the Mohegan Sun Arena in support of Doug Mastriano, who is running for governor against Pennsylvania Attorney […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Friday that he does not consider all supporters of his predecessor, Donald Trump, to be a threat to the United States. “I don’t consider any Trump supporter to be a threat to the country,” Biden said in response to a reporter’s question. The night before, Biden had […]

Thinkstock/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — New allegations from the Justice Department on Tuesday could implicate Donald Trump’s own lawyers in a potential effort to obstruct the ongoing probe into the former president’s retention of classified documents, making the attorneys potential witnesses or even targets in the high-stakes criminal inquiry, experts tell ABC News. In their 36-page […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden used to steadfastly avoid uttering the name, “Donald Trump.” But now, bolstered by stronger poll numbers and relatively positive economic news, Biden as of late has been seeking to make the midterm elections a referendum on the former president — and the extreme […]

ER Productions Limited/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is seeking $47 billion from Congress to secure COVID and monkeypox vaccines, to bolster Ukraine’s defenses and to respond to natural disasters at home. “All of the requests in here meet urgent funding needs,” an administration official told reporters Friday. “It is our responsibility to tell […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Gina McCarthy — President Joe Biden’s top climate adviser — will step down from her post on Sept. 16, the White House announced on Friday. The National Climate Advisor role will then be filled by McCarthy’s deputy, Ali Zaidi, just weeks after the president signed historic climate legislation. […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge on Friday unsealed a more detailed inventory of what the FBI seized in the search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate last month. The judge, who is considering the Trump legal team’s request to name a third party to review the materials, ordered the release […]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department’s Tuesday night court filing in its ongoing investigation into classified documents stored at former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate included previously unreleased details about the probe — but perhaps none were as revealing as an FBI photograph of documents recovered from […]