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William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a new interview, former President Donald Trump refused or avoided answering many specific questions about his conduct on Jan. 6 — but maintained that it was his decision to challenge the 2020 election, the manner of which is now at the center of two of the four […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries argued on Sunday that his Republicans colleagues are “in the middle of a civil war” over the best way forward amid a newly launched impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, an ongoing spending fight and another looming shutdown of the federal government. “Civil war has the following […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As 2024 Republican presidential hopefuls campaign across the country, many have one pitch in common: a promise to eliminate federal agencies or otherwise dismantle the “administrative state.” At least five of the major candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence, have endorsed doing […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — The jury, consisting of Texas senators, has acquitted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on 16 articles of impeachment he faced in a rare Texas Senate impeachment trial after Paxton was suspended by the Texas House in May. The 16 articles were rejected overwhelmingly, with not even a simple majority voting […]
Butch Dill – Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday delivered a stirring defense of the need to educate American school children about the nation’s dark history of racial inequality and violence in a still-ongoing battle for civil rights. “The work of our time is maintaining that hard-won freedom, and […]
Adria Malcolm/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has amended her emergency public health order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque, days after a judge temporarily blocked its enforcement. During a press briefing on Friday, Lujan Grisham announced that the amended order allows […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Before House Speaker Kevin McCarthy decided to move forward with an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump openly pushed Republicans to do more, claiming his political rival is a “crook,” which the White House denies as baseless. Sources tell ABC News that, this week, Trump also […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Kennedy family members have long been standard-bearers in the Democratic Party — a fact Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has sought to capitalize on in his bid to defeat President Joe Biden in the contest for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. But Kennedy — the nephew and son of party […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Special counsel Jack Smith and his team have requested a federal judge in Washington, D.C., impose a “narrowly tailored” order restricting former President Donald Trump from making public statements that they argue could “present a serious and substantial danger of prejudicing” his 2020 federal election interference case. In an extraordinary […]
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The House Oversight Committee will be launching a Republican-led probe into the federal response to the Maui wildfires, claiming Biden had “failed” in that effort when it came things such as government aid and housing assistance. In a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency leadership signed solely by House Republicans, […]
