Politics

WABC (NEW YORK) — Several Democratic leaders who honored the life and legacy of former Sen. Joe Lieberman at his funeral Friday remembered the man who represented Connecticut for over two decades as a calming presence and commended his approach to holding public office in contrast to today’s division. The prominent Jewish politician, was also […]

Michael M. Santiago / Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump and several of his co-defendants on Friday filed their appeal of the disqualification ruling that allowed Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to remain on the Georgia election interference case. The motion from Trump and others to the Georgia Court of Appeals […]

Sean Rayford / Stringer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Marianne Williamson, the author and spiritualist who has been one of President Joe Biden’s few primary challengers in the 2024 presidential race, suspended and unsuspended her campaign last month — and now that she’s back in the race, she told ABC News that her focus is not […]

Michael M. Santiago / Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two days after former President Donald Trump targeted the daughter of the judge overseeing his New York hush money case on social media, lawyers for the Manhattan district attorney have asked Judge Juan Merchan to clarify the case’s limited gag order and “direct that defendant immediately […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden, top lawmakers and administration officials are condemning Russia’s wrongful detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich and reiterating their commitment to bringing him home. Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter, has now spent one year in Moscow’s Lefortovo Prison on espionage charges his newspaper and the U.S. government have […]

Patti Peeples said that squatters were illegally living in her empty property. Via ABC (NEW YORK) — Patti Peeples says she was taken by surprise last year when she discovered her unoccupied home in Jacksonville, Florida, wasn’t actually vacant. A pair of squatters broke into one of her investment properties that was up for sale, […]

Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer on Thursday officially invited President Joe Biden to testify before the panel as part of a Republican-led impeachment inquiry into allegations that Biden used his office to participate in and profit from his family’s foreign business dealings — which he has adamantly denied. The […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Republicans accomplished a longtime goal in 2022 when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, scrapping constitutional protections for abortion. They’ve been faced with seemingly monthly electoral setbacks ever since, with no end in sight. Democrats have made defending reproductive rights a rallying cry, seizing on it to defy expectations […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Joe Biden is teaming up with two of his Democratic predecessors — former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — to ramp up enthusiasm for his reelection campaign at a star-studded fundraiser Thursday night in New York City. The evening is expected to rake in more than $25 […]

Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Thursday that the impeachment articles for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will be sent over to the Senate on April 10, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said the Senate trial will take place on April 11. In a new letter, […]