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Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the House returns from recess Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is facing a new leadership showdown. He’s caught in the middle between a government shutdown threat from House Republican hard-liners demanding spending cuts, opposed to Ukraine aid and threatening to oust him if their demands aren’t met — and […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis attended a 9/11 commemoration ceremony at ground zero in New York City on Monday, appearing with more than a dozen people who lost family members on Sep. 11. The group, many of whom are members of the grassroots organization 9/11 Justice, which represents other 9/11 […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons and New Hampshire’s Republican Gov. Chris Sununu on Sunday weighed in on their respective parties’ 2024 prospects ahead of what appears to be an increasingly likely rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. Coons told ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl that he believes […]
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. “reached out immediately” to the Moroccan government in the wake of a devastating earthquake there and “made very clear to them that we are prepared to assist in any way that we can,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “We have the U.S. Agency for International Development, which takes […]
Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty Images (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has temporarily banned the right to carry firearms in public in Albuquerque in response to recent gun violence. Lujan Grisham issued on Friday a 30-day suspension of open and concealed carry laws in Bernalillo County, where Albuquerque, the state’s most populous city, is […]
Dawson Elementary School’s library is shown in Jackson, Mississippi. — ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Learning to read isn’t fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it’s a frustrating, agonizing process that, if left unaddressed, can cause long-standing academic problems. Ask D’Mekeus Cook Jr., a fourth grader from Louisiana, who was reading at […]
Laurence Mouton/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s name is coming off a golf course in the Bronx that had been the subject of a legal battle with the City of New York following the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Bally’s is buying Trump out of his lease, which allows him […]
James Devaney/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump inflated his net worth by at least $3.6 billion, the New York attorney general’s office said in a new court filing Friday, a sum far larger than earlier estimates. The filing is part of the state’s $250 million civil lawsuit against Trump, his eldest sons, […]
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — While Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s health may have raised questions outside the Senate about his fitness to serve, most GOP senators on Tuesday stood by their leader, expressing confidence in his ability to carry out his job. “We may expect that Mitch McConnell will check out for […]
Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW), a Washington-based watchdog group, on Wednesday filed a lawsuit on behalf of a handful of voters seeking to bar former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment based on his alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 attack […]
