Politics

Glowimages/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration has announced another huge military aid package for Ukraine, totaling $2.5 billion and including close to 150 more armored vehicles — but not the tanks that Ukraine has been requesting. The U.S. believes its Abrams tanks are not suited for Ukraine’s fight against the Russian invasion, but America’s […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (DAVOS, Switzerland) — Speaking Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, FBI Director Christopher Wray described how his agency saw an increase in cyberattacks from Russia at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine last year and he hammered the Chinese for their artificial intelligence program. […]

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he has “no regrets” as the investigation continues into the classified documents found at his home and office. Biden broke his silence on the issue during a trip to California to survey storm damage. He had not answered questions on the matter since […]

joe daniel price/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court said it has been unable to determine who leaked Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case last May. After a probe that involved interviews with more than 100 employees, investigators are “unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance […]

Yoshiki Usami / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Actor Ben Savage is considering another run for political office. According to Federal Election Commission documents submitted Wednesday, the former “Boy Meets World” star has registered to run as a Democrat in California’s 30th Congressional District. A representative for Savage told ABC News in a statement, despite the […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Embattled Rep. George Santos, who’s facing calls to resign over a string of lies and exaggerations about his background, has denied reports that he performed as a drag queen years ago in Brazil. “The most recent obsession from the media claiming that I am a drag Queen or ‘performed’ as […]

Official White House Photo by Erin Scott (WASHINGTON) — A small lesion removed from first lady Jill Biden’s left eyelid last week has been found to be noncancerous, White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said Thursday. In a memo, O’Connor shared an update following Biden’s Mohs surgery to remove other cancerous tissue. He said the […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — A new law designed to increase the number of women in positions of power in both private and public sectors came into force in Sierra Leone on Thursday. More than a year after the legislation was first tabled in Sierra Leone’s Parliament, lawmakers voted unanimously to pass the Gender Equality and […]

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States on Thursday reached its borrowing limit, the Treasury Department said, teeing up a congressional showdown later this year with potentially devastating economic consequences. The federal government can pay most but not all of its bills with the tax and other revenue it takes in, […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — With his son under his raised arm and his wife holding a Bible that once belonged to Frederick Douglass, Wes Moore on Wednesday was sworn in as the first Black governor of Maryland, the only Black governor currently in office and one of only three Black governors elected in […]