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Migrant crisis explained: What's behind the border surge
Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is doubling down on strategies to contain migration as unauthorized border crossings surge across the southwest. The number of migra...
Sep 22, 2023
'There's always deeper than rock bottom': Florida Democrats gird for 2024
Tetra Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- An auto strike impacting Michigan. A prominent GOP Senate recruit in Pennsylvania. A pending campaign launch from a hardliner in Arizona. News just in recent d...
Sep 22, 2023
Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy reflects on why her husband Vivek decided to run for president
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy has been active on the campaign trail with her husband Vivek, an author and businessman running for the GOP presidential ticket, along with the rest of he...
Sep 22, 2023
McCarthy expresses optimism on averting government shutdown
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- To avert a shutdown, Speaker Kevin McCarthy said the House should still try to pass a Republican short-term funding measure next week in addition to the individ...
Sep 22, 2023
Sen. Bob Menendez indicted again for corruption, allegedly had cash stuffed in coat, gold bars
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal grand jury in New York has returned a sweeping indictment against United States Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations ...
Sep 22, 2023
Justice Department arrests, charges IT contractor with espionage
Creativeye99/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department has arrested and charged an IT contractor with two counts of espionage for allegedly taking secret and top-secret information from the S...
Sep 22, 2023
South Korea visit to 'deepen and strengthen' relations with US, top Commerce official says
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A top Department of Commerce official's visit to South Korea is intended to "find ways to deepen and strengthen" the connection between the two coun...
Sep 22, 2023
Biden announces White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
by Marc Guitard/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden announced on Friday the establishment of the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to help reduce the nation's epidem...
Sep 21, 2023
House done voting for the week with no funding deal to avert government shutdown in sight
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Just hours after another embarrassing setback for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in his quest to avert a government shutdown, members are headed home for the ...
Sep 21, 2023
Several Trump allies could be witnesses in upcoming Georgia election interference trial
Scott Olson/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Several high-level allies of former President Donald Trump -- including Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel and Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn -- c...
Sep 21, 2023
