Politics

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland’s announcement comes after FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday afternoon spoke for the first time since FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida. Citing “the […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Multiple sources familiar with the investigation say the Justice Department and the FBI believed former President Donald Trump continued to keep sensitive classified documents that had national security implications and that in recent weeks additional information came in suggesting that Trump was not complying with requests to provide the information […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Republicans are seeking to turn an Iowa issue — Democrats’ likely decision to scrap the state as first-in-the-nation on its presidential nominating calendar — into a persuasive attack line ahead of the November midterm elections. At the Republican Party of Iowa’s annual fundraiser in Des Moines on Wednesday, known […]

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (UVALDE, Texas) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to Uvalde amid growing criticism of his level of engagement with a community still reeling from the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School. The Republican governor met with families of the 21 victims on Friday, his office confirmed to ABC News. Arriving Friday […]

Nate Smallwood/Getty Images (ERIE, Pa.) — In front of a crowd nearly triple the anticipated turnout, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Senate in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, spoke for roughly 11 minutes on Friday in his first public campaign appearance since suffering a stroke in May. Dressed in a hoodie and flanked by his […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An Oklahoma man admitted Wednesday to cyberstalking Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., and threatening Hern and his wife, federal prosecutors announced. Keith Charles Eisenberger, 39, of Bartlesville, pleaded guilty to three federal charges, including cyberstalking; threatening to kidnap and assault a member of Congress; and threatening to kidnap and assault the […]

adamkaz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic — and with ongoing concerns about political violence — America is facing a critical shortage of poll workers, experts say. A new national campaign hopes to see veterans and their families fill the gap. Some 130,000 poll workers have stopped serving over the […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Search documents were released by the court on Friday after the FBI executed an unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday. The FBI was searching for evidence that sources told ABC News is tied to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. It’s believed to be […]

Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida will soon bar transgender residents from using Medicaid to pay for gender-affirming care, according to the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration. The rule goes into effect Aug. 21. Several accredited medical institutions, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The FBI executed an unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday in search of evidence reportedly tied to his alleged mishandling of government documents. It’s believed to be the first search by the federal agency of the residence of a current or former U.S. […]