Politics

SimpleImages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Maine’s Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal from Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, who requested last week for the high court to consider her earlier decision to bar former President Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot under the 14th Amendment. Maine’s top trial court had just days earlier deferred ruling […]

(WASHINGTON) — Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley faced a growing chorus of calls from former President Donald Trump’s allies and other top Republicans to suspend her White House campaign in the wake of her double-digit loss to Trump in New Hampshire’s primary. But she’s fighting on, she says, with weeks to go — and […]

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) — New Hampshire has spoken — and with South Carolina’s primary approaching next month, voters are sharing their thoughts about the race between the state’s former governor Nikki Haley and former President Donald Trump — with one voter saying Haley would only get his vote if she is the last Republican standing. Trump is […]

(WASHINGTON) — “I don’t get too angry, I get even,” former President Donald Trump sniped on Tuesday night during his New Hampshire victory speech shortly after his former U.N Ambassador Nikki Haley, whom he’d just beaten by double digits, vowed to fight on against him for the 2024 Republican nomination. “Who the hell was the imposter […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received a key 2024 endorsement on Wednesday from the United Auto Workers, with the union’s president using the occasion to savage Biden’s likely general election opponent, Donald Trump. Shawn Fain announced UAW’s support for Biden’s reelection bid at their biannual conference in Washington, D.C. “I know there’s some people that want […]

(WASHINGTON) — Texas Sen. John Cornyn, considered a top contender to succeed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, joined over half of Republicans in the chamber in endorsing Trump following the former president’s victory over Nikki Haley in Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary. In a reversal, Cornyn in a statement on X called on his party to consolidate […]

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden received a key 2024 endorsement on Wednesday from the United Auto Workers, with the union’s president using the occasion to savage Biden’s likely general election opponent, Donald Trump. Shawn Fain announced UAW’s support for Biden’s reelection bid at their biannual conference in Washington, D.C. “I know there’s some people that want […]

(WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin participated in a meeting virtually on Tuesday — his first public appearance since his secretive hospitalization — with the 50 nations providing Ukraine with military assistance. Austin appeared on a live stream of the video conference of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group made public by the Defense Department. He […]

(WASHINGTON) — The reopened House ethics probe into Rep. Matt Gaetz continues to ramp up, as the committee in recent weeks has contacted multiple new witnesses as part of its ongoing investigation into the Florida congressman, sources tell ABC News. In recent days, the Republican-led House Ethics Committee has reached out to multiple new witnesses, […]

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the reproductive freedom campaign rally at George Mason University in Manassas, Virginia, on Jan. 23, 2024. (Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images) (MANASSAS, Va.) — President Joe Biden had planned a major campaign speech on Tuesday to highlight abortion rights as key 2024 campaign issue, marking the 51st anniversary of […]