Politics

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jordan is expected to soon tell his GOP colleagues that he won’t hold a third vote for the role of speaker and instead will throw his weight behind expanding powers for the Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, sources tell ABC News. Jordan, a conservative firebrand, staunch Donald Trump […]

U.S. Navy (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community believe that as better data becomes available, the “unidentified and purported anomalous nature” of most of the hundreds of UFO reports they have been investigating will likely be explained by “ordinary phenomena,” according to a government review of the incidents that was released on […]

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jordan is expected to soon tell his GOP colleagues that he won’t hold a third vote for the role of speaker and instead will throw his weight behind expanding powers for the Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry, sources tell ABC News. Jordan, a conservative firebrand, staunch Donald Trump […]

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When the House reconvenes Thursday afternoon, its members could cast ballots for the speaker race — after Republicans rejected Rep. Jim Jordan for the second time Wednesday. Jordan, a conservative firebrand, staunch Donald Trump loyalist and founding member of the House Freedom Caucus, received his party’s nomination last […]

Creativeye99/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sidney Powell, one of 18 co-defendants in former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Georgia, has taken a plea deal in the case. She is pleading to six misdemeanor charges, according to the agreement read in court Thursday. She will get 12 months of probation for each count, as well […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, both 2024 Republican candidates, sounded off further on the Israel-Hamas war as President Joe Biden traveled to Israel to support the U.S. ally. Meanwhile, Illinois’ Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker seized on reproductive rights, one of his party’s top rallying cries […]

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib refused to apologize Wednesday for saying on Tuesday that Israel is to blame for the hospital explosion that day in Gaza, an accusation that sparked political backlash against her from Republicans as Israel denies fault. Tlaib joined thousands of protesters calling for a ceasefire […]

Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After Wednesday’s failed speaker vote, Rep. Jim Jordan remained defiant, and insisted he still had a path to win the speaker’s gavel even after losing more votes than the day before. “We’re gonna keep talking to members. Speaker McCarthy had like a two-month runway from when […]

Miriam Alster/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will address to the nation Thursday to update Americans on the U.S. response to the Hamas attacks, the White House said. The 8 p.m. ET Oval Office speech comes a day after Biden’s high-stakes visit to Israel where he pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Moderate House Republicans and institutionalists coalesced this week as the key opposition to Rep. Jim Jordan’s ascent to speaker. It’s the latest twist to what has become a weekslong fight among conservatives over who will lead the chamber and lift the paralysis over half of Congress. The dynamic confronting Jordan, the […]