White House national security communications adviser John Kirby speaks during a news conference with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 6, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — An unexpected announcement from Hamas claiming it hadRead More →

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie met privately on Monday, amid Greene’s looming threat to try to oust him. Emerging from a nearly two-hour meeting inside the speaker’s office, Greene said on camera they will have another meetingRead More →

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protests have broken out at colleges and universities across the country in connection with the war in Gaza. Many pro-Palestinian protesters are calling for their colleges to divest of funds from Israeli military operations, while some Jewish students on the campuses have called theRead More →

kali9/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man who lived with his mother allegedly murdered her and left her body in the bathtub inside their shared home, police say. Jeremy Gentry, a 48-year-old man from Fruitland, Maryland, has been charged with first and second degree murder, first and second degree assaultRead More →

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will meet privately on Monday, sources told ABC News, amid Greene’s looming threat to try to oust him. The one-on-one meeting, slated for 3:30 p.m. ET, comes as Greene has said she will force aRead More →

Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and “reiterated his clear position on Rafah,” according to the White House. The two men spoke as a major Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city appears imminent, despite opposition from theRead More →

Flanked by attorneys, former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in the courtroom for his arraignment proceeding at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he isRead More →