Politics

JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A federal judge has allowed a legal challenge by a group of Georgia voters to move forward as they seek to disqualify GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection, citing her alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. As a result of […]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris announced Monday night that the Biden administration is setting a self-imposed ban on anti-satellite missile testing with the goal of making it an “international norm for responsible behavior in space.” The U.S., China, India and Russia have all carried out […]

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — It’s a “hoppy” day at the White House — as the Easter Egg Roll returns Monday. Following a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden continue the tradition of welcoming families to the South Lawn for the famed Easter Egg Roll […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Days after the subway shooting in Brooklyn, New York City Mayor Eric Adams told ABC “This Week” Anchor George Stephanopoulos that the recent increase in crime extends beyond his city, calling it a “national issue.” “You know, I say over and over again, there are many rivers that feed the […]

JC Olivera/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The NAACP called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate years of allegations of widespread fraud and misspending in Mississippi totaling a reported $96 million, according to a letter obtained exclusively by ABC News. NAACP President Derrick Johnson called on the Department of Justice “to aggressively investigate and prosecute those responsible […]

Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A second group of asylum seekers arrived in Washington, D.C., Thursday on a charter bus after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to transport migrants from Texas to D.C. This comes just one day after the first bus of […]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge in D.C. on Thursday delivered a scathing rebuke of former President Donald Trump and expressed dismay over the state of American politics just moments after a jury found a defendant charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot guilty on all charges. “You know, I think our democracy […]

VisionsofAmerica/Joe Sohm/Getty Images (CLENDENIN, W. Va.) — A historic flood from sudden torrential rain nearly wiped out entire towns in West Virginia’s mountainous coal country, killing 23 and inflicting $1 billion in damage. Six years later, many survivors remain unmoved by the growing threat of climate change and urgent calls to curb greenhouse gasses from […]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (PIERRE, S.D.) — South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was impeached Tuesday by lawmakers in the state House of Representatives over the 2020 crash he was involved in that left a 55-year-old man dead. The house voted 36-31 to impeach Ravnsborg and charged him with committing crimes that caused someone’s […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Following a call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Joe Biden announced Wednesday his administration is authorizing an additional $800 million for weapons and ammunition for Ukraine, including artillery and armored personnel carriers, as it braces to defend itself from an expected new Russian offensive. Pentagon press secretary John […]