Politics

RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A New York City judge has set a trial date of March 25, 2024, for former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial on charges of falsifying business records. The former president appeared, virtually, in a Manhattan court Tuesday before the judge presiding over his criminal case. Trump, sitting side-by-side with his […]

Patricia Marroquin/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will launch his 2024 presidential campaign during a social media event with Elon Musk on Wednesday night, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. DeSantis will declare he is seeking the Republican nomination during a live, audio-only Twitter Spaces event at 6 p.m. ET […]

Javier Ghersi/Getty Images (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — As Washington struggles to reach a debt ceiling deal with little more than a week until potential default, a key hangup in the negotiations is turning out to be — “work requirements.” A long-sought effort by Republicans to impose stricter conditions on recipients of Medicaid and other federal assistance […]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a closed-door meeting with House Republicans Tuesday morning, Speaker Kevin McCarthy told his conference he and the White House are “nowhere a deal” on the debt limit and spending, urging members to hold firm, sources told ABC News. “I need you all to hang with me on the debt […]

Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced a body-worn camera policy for all nine law enforcement components under the DHS umbrella, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Secret Service and Federal Protective Service. Currently, agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection have 7,000 […]

Tetra Images – Henryk Sadura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy left a White House meeting with President Joe Biden on Monday saying he was optimistic about progress toward a deal on the nation’s debt ceiling — but “philosophical differences” with Democrats remained, as the clock continues to tick down toward an unprecedented default. […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats and Republicans can at least agree on one thing: They have no idea what’s going to happen in next year’s Arizona Senate race. The election is shaping up to be an unpredictable three-way contest in one of the nation’s premier battlegrounds featuring an incumbent who left her party, a […]

Mint Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Democrats are launching a billboard campaign this week focusing on swing seat Republicans and seeking to flip the script on attacks over the “defund the police” slogan used by some progressive activists and lawmakers. The billboards from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), shared first with ABC News, will […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet late Monday afternoon in the Oval Office to directly negotiate with just 10 days to reach a debt ceiling and spending deal — or risk an unprecedented default. Ahead of their one-on-one session, White House negotiators […]

Stephanie Keith/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump’s words about writer E. Jean Carroll may, again, come back to haunt him. Carroll’s attorneys sought on Monday to amend her initial defamation lawsuit against Trump, filed in 2019, to account for allegedly defamatory statements he made about her after a jury found him liable […]