Politics

AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jury selection is set to begin Monday in the trial of former President Donald Trump’s ally Steve Bannon over his defiance of a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Bannon, who previously served as Trump’s White House chief strategist but […]

Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Secret Service deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021, after an internal watchdog requested them as part of a review of the department’s handling of last year’s Capitol riot, the watchdog said this week. A letter sent Wednesday by the Department of Homeland […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Ahead of Thursday’s hearing by the House’s Jan. 6 committee, investigators anticipate receiving more information from the Secret Service “to get the full picture” of what occurred before and during the Capitol insurrection last year, including as it related to text messages agents sent in that period of time, Rep. Zoe […]

ABC (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday castigated Sen. Joe Manchin after the West Virginia Democrat said he wouldn’t support legislation focused on climate change and tax changes, citing his concerns over high inflation. Manchin is “intentionally sabotaging the president’s agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol announced on Friday that it had issued a subpoena for records from the United States Secret Service over deleted text messages. Chairman Bennie Thompson sought information about Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 that were […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a House hearing on Capitol Hill this week, an anti-abortion rights advocate said ending a pregnancy isn’t an abortion when it involves a 10-year-old rape victim. The comment stunned the Democratic lawmaker questioning her. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists defines abortion as a “medical intervention provided to individuals […]

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has said he is looking into declaring a public health emergency over abortion, nearly a month after the Supreme Court majority voted to overturn Roe v. Wade — landmark legislation that established federal protections for a woman’s right to abortion. The Center for Reproductive Rights told ABC News […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia) — President Joe Biden wrapped up his first trip to the Middle East on Saturday by pledging that the United States will continue to be an engaged partner in the region. Speaking at the Gulf Cooperation Council in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Biden said his administration will support relationships with nations […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a bill that would have both legally shielded the people who travel across states lines to receive an abortion and the providers who care for those patients. Senate Democrats needed the support of at least 10 Republicans to stop a GOP filibuster of the bill, […]

Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Joe Manchin appears to have torpedoed a cornerstone of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda, telling Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer Thursday evening that he won’t support moving forward on proposed tax hikes on wealthy Americans and corporations that would pay for a package of climate change and energy policies, […]