Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday visited the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. During his visit he received an operational briefing on the recovery efforts and an aerial tour aboard Marine One of the wreckage still in the Patapsco River. Biden met […]
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Scott Paul, the associate director for peace and security at Oxfam America, spoke with ABC News Live about the crisis in Gaza and the necessary steps to protect civilians and aid workers. Paul believes that the tragic deaths of seven employees of World Central Kitchen this week are a collective […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Just weeks into his tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley pitched to voters something that former President Donald Trump has spoken against consistently throughout the campaign trail: mail-in voting. “We need to build a national early-vote program that is going to communicate with [voters] through door […]
Gary Hershorn/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The 4.8 magnitude earthquake that rattled the tristate area Friday morning left residents doubting what they had just experienced. “I felt like there was a roller coaster under my house going 1,000 miles an hour,” Carol Nicolaidis of Brooklyn, New York, told ABC News. “I first thought pipes were […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former first lady Melania Trump will be headlining a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser later this month for Log Cabin Republicans, the largest organization representing LGBT conservatives in the United States. It’s a rare appearance at a fundraising event by the former first lady, who has mostly stayed away from former President Donald […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The FBI is investigating whether New York Mayor Eric Adams received free upgrades on Turkish Airlines, the country’s national carrier, sources familiar with the investigation told ABC News. Scrutiny of the flights is part of a wider corruption investigation involving a top Turkish Airlines executive, aides to the mayor […]
Lucasfilm On Friday, Disney announced release dates for a collection of forthcoming movies, including the anticipated big-screen bow of its small-screen property The Mandalorian, as well as the next Tron film and the fifth Toy Story movie. The spy thriller The Amateur, starring Oscar winner Rami Malek and Emmy winner Rachel Brosnahan, once slated for […]
Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for The Webby Awards SZA has joined the lineup for Summerfest alongside special guest Aminé. She’ll take the festival’s largest stage, the American Family Insurance Amphitheater, on Saturday, June 22, performing as a headliner at the event. Though she was the last Summerfest headliner to be announced this year, it will be […]
Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After House Republicans introduced legislation to rename an airport outside of Washington, D.C., after former President Donald Trump, a group of House Democrats are now proposing a bill to rename a federal prison in Miami after Trump. The legislation, which would rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida as […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case quashed a last-minute subpoena by defense lawyers Friday, writing that the former president’s request was the “very definition of a fishing expedition.” Trump’s lawyers last month subpoenaed NBCUniversal for materials related to their documentary about adult film star Stormy Daniels, […]
