Politics

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — First lady Jill Biden apologized Tuesday through her spokesperson after receiving public backlash for saying in a speech Monday that Latinos are “as unique as breakfast tacos.” Spokesperson Michael LaRosa tweeted a brief apology on Tuesday morning following an onslaught of criticism from conservatives and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. […]

uschools/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 will focus Tuesday on extremist groups’ alleged coordination with former President Donald Trump and his allies ahead of and during the Capitol attack. Stephen Ayres of Warren, Ohio, who recently admitted to illegally entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, will testify, as well as […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Monday cited some of its past successes as it played down a new New York Times/Siena College poll showing President Joe Biden’s approval rating almost scraping 30% — and Democrats pushing, at this point some two years out, for a different candidate in the 2024 race. […]

YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has tested positive for COVID-19, his spokesperson said Sunday night. The New York senator, who is vaccinated and double boosted, is experiencing mild symptoms, Justin Goodman said in a statement. “As a part of his regular testing regimen, Leader Schumer received […]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 on Tuesday announced its next hearing: July 12 beginning at 1 p.m. ET. The panel has been holding a series of public hearings since last month related to its year-long inquiry into the events before, during and after the […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will host hundreds impacted by gun violence on the White House South Lawn Monday to tout the first major bipartisan gun legislation to pass through Congress in nearly 30 years. Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law last month, but the signing was somewhat […]

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department revealed in an early Monday morning court filing that federal investigators interviewed former President Donald Trump’s attorney Justin Clark two weeks ago in connection with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s criminal contempt case. Prosecutors say that Clark confirmed in the interview that at no point […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Adam Kinzinger, a member of the House select committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot, said Sunday that Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone didn’t contradict previous testimony by other witnesses and will be featured in the investigation’s final report after he sat for a transcribed, videotaped interview with the panel […]

Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — “Keep making your point. It’s critically important,” President Joe Biden said as for his message to the thousands of abortion-rights activists who gathered outside the White House on Saturday. President Joe Biden said Sunday he was looking into declaring a public health emergency in support of abortion access […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Bannon, a former top adviser in Donald Trump’s White House, recently told the House panel investigating the Capitol riot that he would be willing to testify since Trump now says he won’t cite executive privilege. In a letter on Saturday to the committee, obtained by […]