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ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S.-led retaliatory strikes launched against Iranian-backed Houthi militants in the Red Sea are intended to prevent future conflict, and the U.S. does not want to “go down a path of greater escalation,” Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz […]
Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rob Walker, a longtime business associate of Hunter Biden, said in a closed-door interview on Friday with the GOP-led House Oversight Committee that President Joe Biden “was never involved” in Hunter Biden’s business dealings, according to Walker’s opening statement obtained by ABC News. “To be clear, President Biden — while […]
Richard Sharrocks/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Republican and Democratic senators closing in on a rare bipartisan deal on tough new border security, the fate of any agreement appeared in doubt Friday with key Republicans expressing concern former President Donald Trump could derail the whole thing. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday piled on Trump’s pressure […]
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Muslim and Arab American leaders in Michigan canceled a meeting with President Joe Biden’s campaign team amid increasing opposition to his administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war, multiple people tell ABC News. “We’re dumbfounded,” the National Executive Director of The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Abed Ayoub, told ABC News. “Why does […]
Prasit photo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House said they are “alarmed” by what happened to Taylor Swift online this week as explicit artificial intelligence generated photos of the singer were posted. Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told ABC News White House Correspondent Karen L. Travers that Congress should move forward on legislation to address deep […]
President Joe Biden delivers his State of the Union address, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden invited Kate Cox, the Texas woman who was denied an emergency abortion by the state’s Supreme Court in […]
J.Castro/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Republican-led House Education Committee kicked off its formal antisemitism probe of the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, which the committee called for after an explosive December hearing where three university presidents were grilled on allegations of antisemitism at their schools. In a letter addressed jointly to Penn’s interim president and […]
In this June 21, 2023, file photo, the Golden Pass LNG plant is shown under construction in Sabine Pass, Texas. — picture alliance via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration announced a pause on applications for liquified natural gas export terminals on Friday to consider their impact on climate change, a major step […]
by Marc Guitard/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Thursday pushed back hard on Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest showdown with President Joe Biden over who controls the southern border. In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, Abbott claimed the situation with immigrants crossing into Texas was an “invasion,” and that because […]
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While highlighting new and ongoing infrastructure investments across the country, President Joe Biden on Thursday continued to praise the recent GDP report that found the nation’s economy grew at a 3.3% annual pace — much more rapid than expected — and he gave credit to Americans for an economy that […]