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DHS announces body-worn camera policy for all its agencies
Official White House Photo by Hannah Foslien(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday announced a body-worn camera policy for all nine law enforcement components under the DHS umb...
May 23, 2023
Biden and McCarthy sound optimistic on debt ceiling deal after meeting, but 'differences' remain
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Speaker Kevin McCarthy left a White House meeting with President Joe Biden on Monday saying he was optimistic about progress toward a dea...
May 23, 2023
Why Arizona's Senate race could be the most tumultuous of 2024
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Democrats and Republicans can at least agree on one thing: They have no idea what's going to happen in next year's Arizona Senate race. The election is shapi...
May 23, 2023
E. Jean Carroll seeks to amend other Trump lawsuit for his reaction to battery verdict
Stephanie Keith/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump's words about writer E. Jean Carroll may, again, come back to haunt him. Carroll's attorneys sought on Monday to amend her initi...
May 22, 2023
Could the 14th Amendment be used to resolve the debt limit crisis?
Prasit photo/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the nation heads toward a potential default, possibly as soon as June 1, President Joe Biden is facing pressure from some Democrats to use the 14th Amendmen...
May 22, 2023
Ahead of meeting with Biden, McCarthy says debt, spending deal needed 'this week'
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet late Monday afternoon in the Oval Office to directly negotiate with just 1...
May 22, 2023
Democrats target swing seat House Republicans over Trump's 'defund' FBI remark
Mint Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Democrats are launching a billboard campaign this week focusing on swing seat Republicans and seeking to flip the script on attacks over the "defund the p...
May 22, 2023
ABC News exclusive: FAA giving airports more than $100M to help prevent runway incursions
Daniel Garrido/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- More than $100 million will go to airports across the country to reduce potential runway incursions, the Federal Aviation Administration told ABC News exclus...
May 22, 2023
Tim Scott set to join the 2024 Republican race for president
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Tim Scott, who grew up in working-class poverty to become South Carolina's first Black senator, and now the Senate's lone Black Republican, was set t...
May 22, 2023
Top Republican pushes back on Biden, says new taxes in debt deal are nonstarter
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Texas Rep. Jodey Arrington, the House Budget Committee chairman, on Sunday pushed back on President Joe Biden's call for tax increases as p...
May 21, 2023
