Politics

(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is set to push back forcefully on “false” and “extremely dangerous” narratives he says are being spread about the Department of Justice in an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The hearing comes as House GOP lawmakers threaten to hold Garland in contempt for withholding records they’ve […]

(WASHINGTON) — Voters in New Jersey, South Dakota, New Mexico, Montana and Washington, D.C., will cast ballots in presidential and down-ballot primary elections on Tuesday. These are some of the last primary elections and caucuses of the 2024 cycle. But with President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump the presumptive nominees of their respective […]

David Dee Delgado/Getty Images (NEW YORK) –ABC News has learned that New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez plans to file a petition by the end of the day Monday to get on the U.S. Senate ballot in the Garden State as an independent candidate. The deadline to file signatures is 4 p.m. on Tuesday, which is […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on immigration as early as this week, according to sources familiar with the decision. The long-awaited executive order would limit the number of migrants that would be allowed to claim asylum at the southern U.S. border. It would immediately send […]

(WASHINGTON) — Dr. Anthony Fauci is facing intense scrutiny from House Republicans at a hearing on Monday as lawmakers continue to scrutinize his response to the COVID-19 pandemic and examine theories of the origin of the virus. Fauci previously proclaimed that he has “nothing to hide” and is coming before the Select Subcommittee on the […]

(WASHINGTON) — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, has announced she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “My doctors have confirmed my diagnosis of pancreatic cancer,” Rep. Jackson Lee, 74, said in a statement Sunday night. “I am currently undergoing treatment to battle this disease that impacts tens of thousands of Americans every year.” Due to […]

(WASHINGTON) — House Republicans are poised to grill Dr. Anthony Fauci at a hearing on Monday as lawmakers continue to scrutinize his response to the COVID-19 pandemic and examine theories of the origin of the virus. Ahead of the hearing, House Republicans requested access to Fauci’s personal email account and cellphone records after obtaining information […]

A plurality of Americans, 50%, think former President Donald Trump’s guilty verdict on all 34 counts in his hush money trial was correct, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds, and almost as many, 49%, think he should end his 2024 presidential campaign over the result. Still, following the historic criminal trial that ended this week […]

Will Scharf, a member of Donald Trump’s legal team, said Sunday that the former president will appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts in New York but will comply with a pre-sentencing investigation in the meantime. Trump’s conviction, centered around allegations he covered up a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels during […]

ABC News White House national security communications adviser John Kirby said the United States expects that if Hamas agrees to a recent three-phase proposal from Israel to end fighting in Gaza, that Israel “would say yes.” “It is an Israeli proposal, one that they arrived at after intense diplomacy with their own national security team […]