Politics

Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Growing up with nine siblings, who all shared one bathroom, Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson said his father taught him: “We are only as strong as the person who was struggling the most.” Now, after a highly contested runoff election that garnered national attention, Johnson said he is prepared to live by […]

Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — An unprecedented ruling by a single federal judge in Texas on mifepristone is raising concerns of “judge shopping” in a legal clash that could reshape abortion access in the U.S. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas, in his April 7 order, ruled to […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With Americans’ access to the abortion pill mifepristone still in limbo, Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday convened a meeting of a White House task force on reproductive health care during which Cabinet officials expanded on a new way they intend to protect a person’s privacy when it comes to abortion […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to delay a writer’s defamation and battery case that is scheduled to go on trial this month, arguing the “deluge” of media coverage of his recent indictment on 34 criminal charges makes fairness impossible. The writer, E. Jean Carroll, sued Trump in November alleging he […]

Seth Herald/Getty Images (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — Less than a week after being ousted by the Tennessee House of Representatives by the Republican supermajority, District 86 representative Justin J. Pearson has just been reinstated by a unanimous vote. Pearson’s reinstatement comes just two days after Nashville’s Metro Council unanimously voted to reinstate Rep. Justin Jones, the other […]

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to delay a writer’s defamation and battery case that is scheduled to go on trial this month, arguing the “deluge” of media coverage of his recent indictment on 34 criminal charges makes fairness impossible. The writer, E. Jean Carroll, sued Trump in November alleging […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Wednesday launched his 2024 presidential exploratory committee. “I bear witness to what America can do for anyone, what she’s done for me. But we must rise up to the challenges of our time. This is a fight we must win. And that […]

Digital Vision./Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ABC News has reviewed 38 images that appear to depict classified U.S. intelligence documents that were among dozens apparently shared by one user of an online server on the chat website Discord on March 1 and March 2. Discord is organized by servers; a Discord user can create their […]

Pool/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. will “turn over every rock” to find the source of the apparent leak of dozens of highly classified documents on the internet in his first public comments since the documents came to light. More apparently leaked documents continued to emerge on Monday […]

Pool/ABC News (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday made his first public comments on the leak of what appear to be top secret intelligence documents from the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies Austin, appearing at a news conference alongside Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo, […]