Politics

(MILWAUKEE) — President Joe Biden is continuing his campaign ramp-up with a visit to battleground Wisconsin on Wednesday, a day after he clinched the Democratic nomination. Biden’s first stop will be an official event to talk infrastructure at a Boys & Girls Club. He’s going to tout millions in funding for a project to improve […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The chairman and chief executive of the insurance company that guaranteed former President Donald Trump’s $92 million bond in the E. Jean Carroll defamation case said in a letter Wednesday that the company’s participation “has nothing to do with the underlying merits or with favoring any of the parties in […]

(WASHINGTON) — The House on Wednesday passed bipartisan legislation to force TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell the wildly popular social media platform or face a ban in the U.S. If enacted, the bill would give ByteDance six months to divest from TikTok before app stores would start prohibiting access. The final vote was 352-65, […]

(WASHINGTON) — Last week, one of the Republican congressman who has been spearheading the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden floated a new path forward for his embattled probe: issuing “criminal referrals,” recommending prosecution, to the Department of Justice. “At the end of the day, what does accountability look like? It looks like criminal referrals. […]

(WASHINGTON) — Threats to high-profile officials are on the rise, and would-be attackers seeking to cause harm or fear are increasingly trying to hit them where they live — literally — according to a new federal intelligence bulletin. A concerning “recent uptick” in personal residences targeted has left well-known people in both the public and […]

(WASHINGTON) — After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed in a recent interview that former President Donald Trump told him he would suspend U.S. military aid to Ukraine to end its conflict with Russia, the Trump campaign is doubling down on Trump’s previous comments that other countries should pay more of the cost of the […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have clinched the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, respectively, after another round of voting on Tuesday, ABC News projects based on the ABC News delegate estimate. That officially begins a nearly eight-month-long general election battle that has, in some ways, already been […]

(WASHINGTON) — The House is set to vote Wednesday on a bipartisan bill that would ban the wildly popular social media app TikTok in the United States if its Chinese owners don’t sell the app. While the legislation appears poised to pass in the House, its future is less certain in the Senate. Intelligence officials […]

(WASHINGTON) — With new aid for Ukraine stalled in Congress since December, the White House on Tuesday announced it had cobbled together another $300 million in military assistance to use as a stopgap measure. “The package includes munitions and rounds to help Ukraine hold the line against Russia’s brutal attacks for the next couple of […]

Robert Alexander/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The department of Veterans Affairs will soon provide in vitro fertilization to eligible veterans who are single or in same-sex marriages — coming after criticism of the agency’s lack of reproductive benefits for some veterans. The VA announced Monday that it will also provide IVF to veterans using donated sperm […]