Politics

(WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who was hailed for much of last year as a rising Republican star, is ending his presidential campaign after he failed to overtake rival Donald Trump in polling or in the early vote of the 2024 race. DeSantis made his announcement in a four-and-a-half-minute video posted to X on Sunday […]

(WASHINGTON) — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, who endorsed Donald Trump after suspending his own Republican presidential campaign, on Sunday tried to downplay the former president’s inflammatory new attacks on former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s name and heritage. When pressed by ABC News “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz on Trump’s intentional mispronunciations of Haley’s first […]

(FLORIDA) — The Sarasota, Florida Police Department announced Friday they won’t be charging Christian Ziegler, the former chair of the Florida Republican Party, following an investigation into a reported sexual assault. However, investigators said they have forwarded a probable cause affidavit for the felony crime of video voyeurism, after Ziegler allegedly filmed the sexual encounter […]

(SOUTH CAROLINA) — Newly released audio files show that the Marine Corps called 911 after one of their F-35 fighter jets went missing in South Carolina last September. The F-35 experienced what Marine Corps officials referred to as a “mishap” over the skies of the state’s Lowcountry region on Sept. 17, 2023, according to military […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday signed a stopgap measure to avoid a partial government shutdown that would have taken effect at the end of the day, the White House said. The measure keeping government funding going for a few more weeks until early March while Republicans and Democrats continue fighting over spending. Lawmakers […]

(WASHINGTON) — Donald Trump is doubling down on his claims of “complete and total” presidential immunity as he awaits a decision from an appeals court on his effort to have his federal election interference case dismissed. Trump, appearing to go further than before, wrote on his social media platform on Thursday, in all caps, that […]

ilbusca/Getty Images (AUGUSTA, Maine) — Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows on Friday asked the state’s highest appeals court to consider her decision to bar former President Donald Trump off of Maine’s GOP primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment — before the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the Colorado 14th Amendment case […]

Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Friday announced that the U.S. conducted more strikes against Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen Friday morning. “This morning, U.S. forces conducted three successful self-defense strikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. This is the fourth preemptive action that the U.S. military has taken in the past week […]

(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Tim Scott is expected to endorse former President Donald Trump for president at a rally in New Hampshire Friday evening, sources confirmed to ABC News — delivering a blow to Nikki Haley, who appointed Scott to the Senate when she was South Carolina governor. The news, first reported by the New York […]

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden will sit for a deposition with the House Oversight and Judiciary committees on Feb. 28, the committee chairmen said in a statement on Thursday, after weeks of back and forth with the younger Biden’s legal team. Hunter Biden had been subpoenaed to sit for […]