Politics

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 symptoms are “almost completely resolved,” his physician said on Monday. Kevin O’Connor wrote in a letter released by the White House that Biden was only noting “some residual nasal congestion and minimal hoarseness.” “His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature remain […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Liz Cheney said Sunday that she is working hard to win reelection this year and beat back a Trump-endorsed primary challenger — but if her time investigating the former president for the House Jan. 6 committee leads to her defeat, “there’s no question” it will have been worth it. […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump committed crimes related to last year’s Capitol riot and should ideally be charged by the Justice Department, House Jan. 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger contended on Sunday. “I certainly hope they’re moving forward,” Kinzinger, R-Ill., told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl of the Justice Department’s separate […]

Brian Stukes/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had sharp words for the Republicans opposing a bill codifying the right to same-sex marriages, urging them to support the legislation’s passage in the Senate after it won bipartisan House approval. Buttigieg, the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a Cabinet position, underscored during […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House on Thursday passed a The Right to Contraception Act that ensures access to contraception, such as birth control, to anyone who needs it — a move coming less than a month after conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the high court should revisit key precedents based on […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general has turned the inquiry into the Secret Service deleted text messages into a criminal investigation, three sources familiar with the situation confirmed to ABC News Thursday. The inspector general sent a letter to the Secret Service Wednesday night telling the agency to […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 committee’s second prime-time hearing focused on what it said was then-President Donald Trump’s “187 minutes” of inaction — from the time he left the rally at the Ellipse, to then watching the attack on the U.S. Capitol on TV at the White House until […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Jan. 6 select committee used its second prime-time hearing Thursday to make the case that President Donald Trump not only did nothing to stop the assault on the U.S. Capitol but did so because he wanted it to succeed. Chairman Bennie Thompson, leading off the […]

Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new gun bill on Friday that is explicitly modeled after Texas’ unprecedented abortion law. The state is now the first to allow citizens to sue people who make or sell banned weapons, state officials said. The bill, […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, who served as former President Donald Trump’s chief strategist before departing the White House in August 2017, is on trial for defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Bannon was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 panel for records […]