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Kari Lake set to launch Arizona Senate bid next month, after gubernatorial loss: Sources
Scott Olson/Getty Images(PHOENIX) -- Kari Lake is set to launch a Senate campaign next month, three sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News. One of the sources said Lake has been e...
Sep 20, 2023
DeSantis calls out Trump's abortion comment as 'mistake': 'He's a different candidate' than in 2016
ABC News(MIDLAND, Texas) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, before unveiling his new energy plan in Midland, Texas, criticized Donald Trump for calling Florida's six-week abortion ban "terrible," with...
Sep 20, 2023
Senate confirms CQ Brown as next Joint Chiefs chairman after vote sidesteps Tuberville blockade
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Air Force Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown Jr. was confirmed on Wednesday night with overwhelming bipartisan support in the Senate and will bec...
Sep 20, 2023
Biden, Netanyahu meet amid US-Israeli tensions
Avi Ohayon (GPO)/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down together Wednesday for the first time since Netany...
Sep 20, 2023
Buttigieg: Government shutdown would stop crucial air traffic controller training 'in our tracks'
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said a government shutdown would come "at exactly the wrong moment" as the department works to address the ongoing ai...
Sep 20, 2023
Biden to launch 'American Climate Corps' following calls from activists, Democratic lawmakers
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Wednesday will launch the "American Climate Corps," according to the White House, which described it as "a workforce tr...
Sep 20, 2023
Garland grilled by House Republicans on Hunter Biden, Trump investigations
Michael Godek/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday in a roughly five-hour high-stakes hearing where Republican law...
Sep 20, 2023
Fulton County judge grants defense attorneys' request to interview jurors who returned Trump RICO indictment
Creativeye99/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The judge overseeing the Fulton County election interference case will allow attorneys for two of Donald Trump's codefendants to interview the grand jurors who re...
Sep 20, 2023
House Republicans set first Biden impeachment inquiry public hearing
Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The GOP-controlled House Oversight Committee on Tuesday announced it would hold a public hearing on President Joe Biden's family's business ...
Sep 20, 2023
Former Oath Keeper Ray Epps, a target of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories, pleads guilty
Thinkstock/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ray Epps, a former Oath Keeper member who became the target of Jan. 6 conspiracy theories spread by many Republicans, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemea...
Sep 20, 2023
