Politics

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Families of several Americans who are detained abroad arrived in Washington on Wednesday morning to unveil a mural depicting them in an effort, their relatives say, to increase public awareness and pressure the Biden administration to do more to bring them home. The mural features 18 Americans held […]

Jon Hicks/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As midterm elections heat up, political campaigns are beginning to think differently and trying some unorthodox methods to win. Recently, there have been efforts by Democratic PACs to steer Republican voters to specific candidates in primaries. In Maryland, one Democratic PAC, DGA Action, ran ads promoting Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Democrats’ campaign arm outraised its Republican counterpart in the second quarter of 2022 amid a fierce battle for control of the upper chamber, which is split 50-50. In numbers shared first with ABC News, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) said Tuesday it drew $33.5 million in donations from […]

uschools/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to codify the right to same-sex and interracial marriage in the wake of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade — with one justice writing that the right to same-sex marriage should also be reversed. The final vote was 267-157, with […]

Samuel Corum/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For the first time in seven years, the country’s lead agency on protecting the public from crimes involving firearms, explosives and arson has a Senate-confirmed director. Steve Dettelbach was sworn in on Tuesday by Attorney General Merrick Garland in front of his family and friends at the Bureau of Alcohol, […]

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 […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Tuesday that codifies a 2020 law dealing with Americans held hostage or wrongfully detained abroad. Drawing on the 2020 Robert Levinson Hostage Recovery and Hostage-Taking Accountability Act, the new executive order will reinforce the U.S. government’s efforts […]

ANDREY DENISYUK/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Among the priorities for congressional Democrats after the demise of Roe v. Wade are bills to protect someone’s digital health data from being subpoenaed for civil and criminal court cases as a dozen states — and counting — impose widespread restrictions and even bans on abortion. Under consideration, according to […]

Sarah Silbiger-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two more aides in Donald Trump’s White House are expected to testify before the House Jan. 6 committee during its public hearings, sources say — this time an ex-spokeswoman for the former president as well as one of his previous security advisers. Former deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews […]

Getty Images (NEW ORLEANS) — The legal battle over Louisiana’s statewide abortion ban rages on with a court hearing slated for Monday. Since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, declaring there’s no federal constitutional right to end a pregnancy, Louisiana’s abortion “trigger laws” arguably went into automatic effect, meaning […]