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Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (DES MOINES, IOWA) — Vivek Ramaswamy is ending his 2024 presidential campaign on Monday night after a disappointing result in Iowa’s Republican caucuses despite spending months in the state trying to woo voters, a spokeswoman confirmed to ABC News This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Copyright © 2024, […]
(DES MOINES, IOWA) — A highly conservative electorate focused on immigration, the economy and rejection of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory cast the first votes in the 2024 presidential contest in Monday night’s Iowa caucuses, according to preliminary entrance poll results. Sixty-five percent of GOP voters say they didn’t think Biden legitimately won the presidency […]
(WASHINGTON) — Monday night’s Iowa caucuses are the first chance for voters to weigh in on the Republican presidential candidates — and President Joe Biden’s campaign has already readied their argument on the results. Advisers tell ABC News that while GOP candidates are racing to the right, Biden is focused on fighting for democracy and American freedoms. That […]
(NEW YORK) — A New York judge has cleared the way for Donald Trump to testify at his own defamation trial after lawyers for writer E. Jean Carroll raised concerns that the former president could “sow chaos” by attending the trial, which begins Tuesday. Judge Lewis Kaplan said that, if necessary, he would grant a […]
(NEW YORK) — Opening statements are expected Tuesday in the trial of Victoria Jacobs, an Uzbekistan native who is charged with using cryptocurrency to fund Syrian-based terrorist groups and launder supporters’ contributions. It is the first-ever terrorism financing trial in the New York State court system. The six-count indictment, filed in January 2023, charged Jacobs […]
(NEW YORK) — Over 2,500 flights have been canceled Monday, with airports in Denver, Dallas, Houston and Chicago hit the hardest, as a major winter storm unleashes heavy snow and ice across the South. Up to 6 inches of snowfall has already buried parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee. Major cities in the snowstorm’s path […]
(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security has threatened the state of Texas — saying the state is acting unconstitutionally in blocking Customs and Border Protection’s access to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and if the state continues to do so, the Justice Department will take “appropriate action”, according to a letter obtained by […]
(NEW YORK) — More than 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr. uttered ‘Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia,’ racial and historical tensions continue to boil over at Stone Mountain, which doubles as the home of the largest Confederate monument in the world and the Ku Klux Klan’s 20th-century rebirth. The Confederate monument […]
(NEW YORK) — Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was released from the hospital Monday following a two-week stay for treatment of an infection after earlier prostate cancer surgery. The delay in informing officials of his hospitalization caused controversy and a push for investigation from some lawmakers. “The Secretary continues to recover well and, on the […]
(NEW YORK) — In June 2011, the U.S. Department of State received an urgent request from an American businessman who sought a second U.S passport for impending trips to Europe and multiple African nations. “I am frequently required on extremely short notice to schedule international trips with itineraries to multiple destinations requiring me to obtain […]
