Politics

(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has a yawning early lead in FiveThirtyEight’s new Democratic presidential primary polling average as he ramps up his reelection campaign. As of Thursday, the new average shows Biden with 65.5% support nationally and controversial environmental advocate and attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. trailing at a distant 14.2%, despite extensive media […]

Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump met Thursday morning with special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential indictment of the former president looms, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Trump attorneys John Lauro and Todd Blanche met with Smith’s team following the […]

(WASHINGTON) — New details about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s health are emerging after an unusual episode on Capitol Hill on Wednesday in which he froze up during a press conference and had to briefly return to his office. While the 81-year-old Kentucky lawmaker has repeatedly said since then that he’s “fine,” he did suffer […]

Al Diaz/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump have arrived at special counsel Jack Smith’s offices Thursday morning for a meeting as a potential indictment of the former president looms, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. Trump’s attorneys, John Lauro and Todd Blanche, are expected […]

(WASHINGTON) — In a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on Wednesday morning, Speaker Kevin McCarthy reiterated to his conference that an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden is on the table but suggested it is not yet imminent, according to multiple sources in the room. McCarthy, who earlier this week floated the possibility of an impeachment […]

(WASHINGTON) — A former intelligence community official testified Wednesday on an alleged covert government program to recover and reverse engineer crashed alien spacecraft. David Grusch, a member of a previous Pentagon office tasked with investigating unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, said he was informed of the alleged multi-decade program through his official duties, but was denied […]

(WASHINGTON) — In a shocking moment on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was unable to finish his opening remarks during his weekly press conference — and briefly left the event but later returned to take questions from reporters. McConnell, 81, approached the microphone and began a sentence about the National Defense Authorization […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration on Tuesday said it was canceling $130 million in federal debt for 7,400 students who went to a Colorado college that the government says lied about its successes. “These borrowers were lied to, ripped off and saddled with mountains of debt,” President Joe Biden said in a statement. It’s not the […]

(WASHINGTON) — As a dangerous heat wave continues to plague tens of millions of Americans across the country, one Texas lawmaker is pushing for heat protections, including water breaks, for those who work outside in the brutal conditions. Rep. Greg Casar, a Democrat, organized a so-called “thirst strike” on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration expressed a federal judge’s ruling striking down the Biden administration’s asylum policy that established a “rebuttable presumption” of asylum ineligibility. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said he disagreed with the court’s ruling. “It does not limit our ability to deliver consequences for unlawful entry,” he said. “Do not believe the […]