Politics

ABC News Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday tore into Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over what Van Hollen said was Netanyahu’s refusal to acquiesce to President Joe Biden’s requests for more humanitarian action in Gaza amid the war with Hamas. Appearing on ABC News’ “This Week,” Van Hollen, a Maryland lawmaker and member […]

ABC News The White House is pushing back against top Republicans’ misleading criticism of President Joe Biden for issuing a proclamation in support of transgender people on the same day as Easter. A spokesman for the president rejected the attacks from the House speaker and others that Biden’s message for the Transgender Day of Visibility […]

WABC (NEW YORK) — Several Democratic leaders who honored the life and legacy of former Sen. Joe Lieberman at his funeral Friday remembered the man who represented Connecticut for over two decades as a calming presence and commended his approach to holding public office in contrast to today’s division. The prominent Jewish politician, was also […]

Michael M. Santiago / Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants on Friday filed their appeal of the disqualification ruling that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the Georgia election interference case. The motion from Trump and others to the Georgia Court of Appeals […]

Sean Rayford / Stringer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Marianne Williamson, the author and spiritualist who has been one of President Joe Biden’s few primary challengers in the 2024 presidential race, suspended and unsuspended her campaign last month — and now that she’s back in the race, she told ABC News that her focus is not […]

Michael M. Santiago / Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two days after former President Donald Trump targeted the daughter of the judge overseeing his New York hush money case on social media, lawyers for the Manhattan district attorney have asked Judge Juan Merchan to clarify the case’s limited gag order and “direct that defendant immediately […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans accomplished a longtime goal in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, scrapping constitutional protections for abortion. They’ve been faced with seemingly monthly electoral setbacks ever since, with no end in sight. Democrats have made defending reproductive rights a rallying cry, seizing on it to defy expectations […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The California State Bar has recommended that former Trump election attorney John Eastman be disbarred, a judge said in a filing on Wednesday. Eastman was charged with multiple disciplinary counts by the State Bar of California last January from allegations that Eastman engaged in “a course of conduct to […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden is teaming up with two of his Democratic predecessors — former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — to ramp up enthusiasm for his reelection campaign at a star-studded fundraiser Thursday night in New York City. The evening is expected to rake in more than $25 […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, top lawmakers and administration officials are condemning Russia’s wrongful detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich and reiterating their commitment to bringing him home. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, has now spent one year in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison on espionage charges his newspaper and the U.S. government have […]