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Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — President-elect Donald Trump, in a court filing Friday, urged the Georgia Supreme Court to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the criminal election interference case against him. The filing from Trump’s attorneys, just days before Trump’s inauguration, asked the court to uphold the appeals court ruling last […]
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, made at least $3 million from the merger that formed the parent company of Trump’s Truth Social platform, her new personal financial disclosure filing showed. According to the filing, Bondi, like “all other shareholders,” received $3 million worth of […]
US President Joe Biden delivers a Farewell Address to the Nation inside of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 15, 2025. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, in his farewell address, reflected on a decadeslong political career but also issued […]
Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images (HELENA, Mont.) — The Montana House of Representatives advanced a bill to ban transgender people from using public bathrooms that do not align with their sex assigned at birth, the first of this type of legislation to progress in the 2025 session. It is one of 138 anti-LGBTQ bills in […]
Antonin Utz/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration doesn’t plan to take action that forces TikTok to immediately go dark for U.S. users on Sunday, an administration official told ABC News. TikTok could still proactively choose to shut itself down that day — a move intended to send a clear message to the […]
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris continued their farewell tour on Thursday, attending the Department of Defense Commander in Chief Farewell Ceremony, offering his thanks to U.S. troops for their service throughout his administration. “Serving as your commander in chief has been the greatest honor of […]
Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Planning to travel by air in the U.S. later this year? A regular driver’s license may not cut it. Travelers flying through U.S. airports will soon need to show TSA agents a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license, a passport or another form of REAL ID-compliant identification if they […]
Jefferson Siegel-Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are urging outgoing Attorney General Merrick Garland to “take all necessary steps” to release special counsel Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents — and they’re encouraging him to drop the remaining charges against the president-elect’s former co-defendants in order to […]
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In his farewell address, an emotional Attorney General Merrick Garland sought to encourage an embattled Department of Justice facing uncertainty and to unabashedly defend his tenure and their work. “I know that you have faced unfounded attacks simply for doing your jobs. At the very same time, you have risked […]
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday is forecast to be the coldest in 40 years. An arctic front will pass by Washington, D.C., on Sunday night and winds will pick up out of the northwest, ushering in arctic air. Monday’s temperature will be at its highest — about 25 degrees […]