Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — House Democratic leadership announced on Tuesday that if a motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson is brought to the House floor for a vote, they would vote to table the effort. “We will vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Motion to Vacate theRead More →
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Schnecksville Fire Hall in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Saturday, April 13, 2024. (Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump maintained in a new interview that he’d leave it up to individual states whether orRead More →
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — When Donald Trump began to claim presidential immunity from criminal prosecution related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, many legal analysts ABC News spoke with considered it a weak argument. But last week, in nearly three hours of oral arguments, several SupremeRead More →
Luke Barr/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Emerging technologies in artificial intelligence will make it easier for bad actors to “conceptualize and conduct” chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear attacks, according to a report released by the Department of Homeland Security on Monday. Selected excerpts of the report to President Joe Biden wereRead More →
SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been triedRead More →
Flowers in memory of fallen law enforcement officers accumulate at the base of a flag pole outside the Federal Courthouse on April 30, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — A procession of police cruisers with their lights flashing followed an ambulance through Charlotte, North Carolina,Read More →
Former U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and Todd Blanche, attorney for Trump, right, leave Manhattan criminal court in New York, U.S., on Friday, April 26, 2024. (Curtis Means/Daily Mail/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York centers on dozens of business records,Read 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 →
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — Four members of law enforcement were shot and killed and four were wounded while they attempted to serve two warrants in Charlotte, North Carolina, police said Monday. Around 1:30 p.m. local time, the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force was serving active felony warrants forRead More →
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (SANTA COUNTY, Ariz.) — State prosecutors said Monday they will not seek to retry 75-year-old George Alan Kelly, the Arizona rancher accused of fatally shooting an unarmed migrant on his property near the U.S.-Mexico border. “Because of the unique circumstances and challenges surrounding this case, the SantaRead More →
