Politics

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After three weeks without a speaker, House Republicans are again trying to fill the top spot, gathering behind closed doors Tuesday morning to cast secret ballots until one candidate gets a majority. Eight Republicans are officially running for speaker after the historic removal of Kevin McCarthy earlier […]

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After three weeks without a speaker, House Republicans are again trying to fill the top spot after rejecting Rep. Jim Jordan last week. Eight Republicans are officially running for speaker after the historic removal of Kevin McCarthy earlier this month. On Monday night, House GOP lawmakers will hear […]

Westend61/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former National Security Agency employee pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to sell classified documents to a person he believed was a Russian agent — but who was actually an undercover FBI employee. Jareh Dalke, 31, pleaded to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign […]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After three weeks without a speaker, House Republicans are again trying to fill the top spot after rejecting Rep. Jim Jordan and at least four have reached out to former President Donald Trump, possibly hoping for his endorsement. Nine Republicans are officially running for speaker. On Monday […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez pleaded not guilty on Monday following a superseding indictment earlier this month accusing him of violating a prohibition on members of Congress from acting as an agent of a foreign principal. His wife, Nadine Menendez, and the New Jersey businessmen accused of conspiring with […]

Alexandra Hutzler, Selina Wang , and Ben Gittleson, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Monday wouldn’t say publicly whether the U.S. has asked Israel to delay an expected ground invasion to give more time for more hostages to be released and to allow more aid into Gaza. The administration is counseling caution and […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nine Republicans are officially running for speaker after almost three weeks of chaos without a leader in the House. House Republicans will hear from each candidate in a closed-door forum on Monday night. An internal secret-ballot vote will then be held on Tuesday morning, with the goal of selecting a […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday following new charges accusing him of violating a prohibition on members of Congress from acting as an agent of a foreign principal. He is expected to plead not guilty. His wife, Nadine Menendez, and three New Jersey […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump looked to create some separation between him and a lawyer he had said worked for him — amid his legal trouble in Georgia, as he continues to deny all wrongdoing. Meanwhile, some of the 2024 Republican presidential candidates weighed in on the […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon announced late Saturday that it will send an aircraft carrier and air defense systems to defend U.S. military troops in response to a growing number of attacks on U.S. facilities, presumably by Iranian-backed groups as tensions mount amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. Additional U.S. military forces in the U.S. have […]