Politics

Mark Peterson-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s entourage continued to grow when more high-profile politicians attended his New York hush money criminal trial on Tuesday — including House Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress, was in criminal court with Trump on Tuesday morning. After commuting with Trump in his […]

Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken, during an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Tuesday, promised the U.S. will quickly deliver badly needed arms, touting Washington and the West’s alliances with Kyiv. Blinken is the first senior U.S. official to visit since Congress, after months of dispute, in April […]

Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce new tariffs on $18 billion worth of Chinese imports, including a sharp tax hike on electric vehicles, to help protect his administration’s investments in key sectors in the United States. “The president’s actions ensure that American businesses and workers have the […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is expected to quadruple tariffs on electric vehicles from China from roughly 25% to 100%, and raise other tariffs on key industries including semiconductors, solar, and batteries in an announcement Tuesday, according to a source familiar with the decision. The action has implications for the 2024 presidential […]

Sean Rayford/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nikki Haley will meet with roughly 100 of her biggest donors who supported her campaign for the Republican presidential nomination this week, taking another step toward reemerging back into public life following her defeat at the hands of her chief rival, former President Donald Trump, sources familiar with the event […]

Courtesy of Arizona State University/W Scott Mitchell (CHICAGO) — A teenager from Chicago walked in her graduation ceremony this month after earning her Ph.D at 17. Dr. Dorothy Jean Tillman II was only 10 when she became a freshman at the college of Lake County, majoring in Psychology. In 2020, she earned her Master of […]

Getty Images – STOCK (WASHINGTON) — Nikki Haley dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential primary in March, but she’s continued to rack up sizable numbers in state GOP primaries in the months ever since. ABC News spoke with some of Haley’s so-called “zombie” voters about why they keep supporting her even though former President […]

U.S. President Donald Trump, center, son Barron Trump, left, and First Lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn of the White House after exiting Marine One in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020. (Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Barron Trump, the youngest child of former President Donald Trump, was chosen […]

U.S. House of Representatives (WASHINGTON) — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Wednesday officially triggered a vote on her motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but within minutes Democrats joined almost all Republicans to overwhelmingly reject her move. There were audible boos from lawmakers in the chamber as Greene spoke at length about her […]

President Joe Biden steps off Marine One upon arrival at Soldier Field Landing Zone in Chicago, on May 8, 2024. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Wednesday that American bombs have been used to kill civilians in Gaza and doubled down on his administration’s plan to withhold weapons that Israel […]