Politics

(CHICAGO) — Former President Donald Trump is being interviewed on Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago. Trump is in conversation with ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner and Semafor political reporter Kadia Goba. Trump will be asked about “the most pressing issues facing […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department’s top watchdog issued a report Wednesday criticizing former Attorney General Bill Barr’s management of the aggressive law enforcement response to protests in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2020 that turned violent in the wake the murder of George Floyd. While DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined Barr was not […]

(CHICAGO) — Former President Donald Trump will be interviewed on Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention in Chicago. Trump will be in conversation with ABC News Senior Congressional Correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner and Semafor political reporter Kadia Goba at 1:30 p.m. ET. Trump will be asked about […]

(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee in the 2024 election, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) announced Tuesday night. Harris was the only candidate to qualify for the Democratic party’s presidential nominating ballot, the party said. Across the country, 3,923 delegates petitioned to make Harris the Democratic nominee, according to the […]

(WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris is moving full steam ahead in her bid for the White House, with her campaign saying Sunday it has raised more than $200 million in less than a week. Former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, have several campaign events set up this week as […]

(WASHINGTON) — Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Katie Britt, R-Ala., unveiled a bipartisan package of bills Wednesday morning aimed at making child care more available and affordable for low- and middle-income families. Their proposal would modify existing tax credits to help working parents afford child care. And it would implement a new program to keep […]

(WASHINGTON) — The Department of Education will send an email to Americans with student debt on Wednesday, laying out options for how roughly 25 million could have some, or all, of their debt canceled this fall. The email is the first step of the Biden-Harris administration’s proposed rule announced in April — and still being […]

(WASHINGTON) — Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate faced a grilling from lawmakers about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, earlier this month. The two officials testified before a Senate panel on Tuesday about security arrangements at the site and the status of […]

(WASHINGTON) — Paul Dans, the director of the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025, is stepping down amid intense scrutiny of the conservative blueprint. Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, confirmed that Dans announced he is leaving his position. “When we began Project 2025 in April 2022, we set a timeline for the project […]

(WASHINGTON) — America has no shortage of big donors or political fundraisers, but five years ago, a relatively small group of people looked at the crowded Democratic field in U.S. presidential election and came to the same conclusion – they would use their money and influence to support a young senator with little national recognition […]