Politics

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ivanka Trump, the eldest daughter and former senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, will meet today with the House Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol attack, sources tell ABC News. She will meet with committee members remotely, sources said. Her meeting comes after months of negotiations with the panel, […]

MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The killing of Ukrainian civilians committed by Russian forces in Ukraine is a war crime, President Joe Biden said Monday — repeating his accusation that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “war criminal” who needs to be held “accountable.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of “genocide” on […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — By a bipartisan vote of 53-47, the Senate has forced the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson out of the Judiciary Committee — putting the judge on track for final confirmation by week’s end. GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine voted with […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s first nominee to the Supreme Court, is expected to pass a major milestone Monday on her way to expected Senate confirmation later this week. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote Monday on whether to send Jackson’s nomination to the full Senate, setting up […]

Handout/DNCC via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hunter Biden is apparently spending his father’s presidency living in luxury in Malibu — and so is his taxpayer-funded security detail. The Secret Service detail protecting the president’s controversial son has been paying more than $30,000 a month to rent out a swanky Malibu, California, mansion for nearly a […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Top Senate negotiators have said they are close to striking a deal to approve $10 billion in additional COVID relief funding with just a handful of days remaining before Congress heads off for a two-week recess. The Senate is expected to consider the legislation as soon as next week. The […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain is warning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “far from over,” despite the claim by Moscow that they are retreating from Kyiv and surrounding areas. “I think there’s a lot of evidence that Putin is simply taking his troops out of the northern part […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of Republican leadership, said he will not vote to support President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson, for her historic confirmation to the nation’s highest court, citing disagreements with her judicial philosophy. “Initially, my sense is that the president certainly had every good […]

Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call (WASHINGTON) — The House of Representatives voted Friday to approve legislation that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and remove criminal penalties for certain cannabis-related offenses by a vote of 220-204. Three Republicans — Reps. Tom McClintock, Brian Mast and Matt Gaetz — joined almost all Democrats in voting for […]

Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden touted the nation’s economic recovery on Friday while also acknowledging the financial hardships currently intensified by the war in Ukraine. “Americans are back to work,” Biden said from the White House. “Record job creation. Record unemployment decline. Record wage gains.” U.S. employers added […]