Politics

Ty O’Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the Jan. 6 committee continues to lay out its evidence surrounding the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge on Thursday ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion — a voting machine company at the heart of a number of “Big Lie” […]

NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images Beatrice Peterson, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — It’s been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House calling on President Joe Biden sign an executive order to study reparations by Juneteenth, or this Sunday, June 19, marking the […]

Drew Angerer/Staff/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Members of the House select committee appeared divided this week on whether they should make a criminal referral against former President Donald Trump at the conclusion of their investigation, with Chairman Bennie Thompson telling reporters it’s “not our job” to prosecute Trump before Vice Chair Liz Cheney said the decision […]

Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a rare public appearance during the frenzied crush of Supreme Court opinion season, delivered public praise of her colleague Justice Clarence Thomas and gave a pep talk to progressives Thursday as the embattled institution prepares to issue major rulings driven by the court’s conservative majority. “If […]

White House (WASHINGTON) — New details and never-before-seen photographs have emerged about the “heated” phone call between President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021. The information came out in the House select committee’s third public hearing this month in its investigation of the attack on the U.S. […]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Jan. 6 committee is holding its third public hearing of the month Thursday with the focus on the pressure campaign on then-Vice President Mike Pence. The committee says it will detail efforts from then-President Donald Trump and his allies before and on Jan. 6 to get Pence […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top negotiators on a bipartisan gun safety framework huddled behind closed doors for several hours Wednesday evening to try to solve remaining differences on the package, but the group’s effort to expedite passage of an agreement is stalled, at least for the moment. Since a group of […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi said Wednesday she was “very disappointed” in President Joe Biden’s plan to meet with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, who the U.S. has determined ordered the operation that killed Khashoggi in 2018. “Mr. Biden, you’ll soon visit Saudi Arabia as president, where you’ll […]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A rare U.S. military ground raid in northwestern Syria has captured a top ISIS leader, according to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition. A U.S. defense official said there were no injuries to U.S. military personnel or aircraft involved in the raid. “Coalition forces detained a senior Daesh leader during […]

Zach Gibson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The federal government will be instructing states on ways to expand access to health care and suicide prevention resources for LGBTQ people and will be releasing school policy samples that work to better include such students, among other steps in support of the community including a campaign against conversion therapy, […]