Politics

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jim Jordan lost his first bid for the speakership — the latest in a chaotic battle for the gavel after the historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy earlier this month. After two weeks of legislative paralysis, the House began voting Tuesday on the nomination of Jordan, a conservative firebrand, […]

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jim Jordan lost his first bid for the speakership — the latest in a chaotic battle for the gavel after the historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy earlier this month. After two weeks of legislative paralysis, the House began voting Tuesday on the nomination of Jordan, a conservative firebrand, […]

Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union have reached a proposed settlement agreement that, if approved, would provide benefits for thousands of migrant families separated under the Trump administration’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy to deter illegal southern border crossings. Under the proposed agreement, the Justice Department says, […]

Andrew Caballero-reynolds/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced Monday night. Blinken made the announcement from Israel, where it was early Tuesday morning, following a lengthy meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Beyond the news of Biden’s impending visit, Blinken also announced […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Rep. Jim Jordan on Monday met with holdouts who don’t support him for House speaker — scrambling to shore up support ahead of a floor vote planned for Tuesday afternoon. Jordan, the conservative firebrand, was nominated by House Republicans for the top spot Friday. Yet a secret vote among their […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Presidential candidates are continuing to fill their coffers more than a year ahead of the 2024 election, with details of their third-quarter 2023 fundraising emerging ahead of Sunday’s filing deadline. President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raked in a massive haul, while former President Donald Trump handily leads […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans plan to hold a floor vote to try and pick a new speaker on Tuesday — exactly two weeks after eight of their members joined the Democratic minority in deposing the chamber’s previous leader, Kevin McCarthy. Since McCarthy’s historic ouster, the House has been in unprecedented limbo, paralyzing […]

Smoke plumes billow during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on Oct. 12, 2023, as raging battles between Israel and the Hamas movement continue for the sixth consecutive day. — Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A plurality of Americans back what the United States is doing to support Israel in the war […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s former lawyer and self-described fixer Michael Cohen is delaying his testimony, which was scheduled to begin as early as Tuesday, in the former president’s ongoing civil fraud trial in a New York state court. “Unfortunately, I need to attend to a pre-existing medical condition that impedes my ability […]

Richard Ross/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Pentagon has ordered a second aircraft carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean near Israel to deter Iran or Hezbollah from joining the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to U.S. officials. A senior US official and a US official told ABC News that the USS Eisenhower carrier strike group will […]