Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With days until a partial government shutdown deadline, Speaker Mike Johnson said the newly negotiated bill text for the funding package will be out by Wednesday afternoon, triggering a timeline that means lawmakers would need to act fast to prevent a shutdown before a FridayRead More →

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid a contentious election year debate over the future of U.S. auto manufacturing, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced new vehicle emissions standards that will pressure the industry to make more electric vehicles. “With transportation as the largest source of U.S. climate emissions, theseRead More →

ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County sheriff’s deputy Daniel Opdyke was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison during a hearing in federal court in Jackson, Mississippi on Wednesday for his role in torture of two Black men, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Opdyke is theRead More →

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 1,200 of the nation’s public safety personnel died by suicide over a seven-year period, according to a report released by a nonprofit organization that tracks law enforcement suicides. From 2016 to 2022, there were 1,287 public safety personnel — identified in theRead More →

Hill Street Studios/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two in 10 to as many as three in 10 Republican primary voters in Ohio continue to resist Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy — and among those supporting Nikki Haley, nearly half say they’d back President Joe Biden in November, according to preliminary exit pollRead More →

Official White House Photo by Adam Schult (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden made a campaign swing through battlegrounds Nevada and Arizona on Tuesday in which he touted his administration’s accomplishments and drew contrasts with what his campaign calls “Trump’s anti-Latino agenda.” Before traveling to Arizona, Biden spoke with local leadersRead More →

Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy speaks during an event awarding House Clerk Cheryl L. Johnson with the 2023 Freedom Award, Feb. 13, 2024. (Aaron Schwartz/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The special primary election to succeed former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy unfolded on Tuesday in California’s 20th Congressional District. ABC NewsRead More →

Pool via ABC News (WASHINGTON) — While voting in Florida on Tuesday, in the presidential primary, former President Donald Trump was joined in a rare appearance by wife Melania Trump as he slammed the jail sentence of Peter Navarro, a former adviser, said he “couldn’t care less” about his formerRead More →