Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Government agencies urge 'revamp' of certain software to take cybersecurity burden off customers
Westend61/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. and international government agencies are urging software manufacturers to “revamp” the design of certain software to take the burden of cybersec...
Apr 13, 2023
Supreme Court showdown over Sabbath could change workplaces across US
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images(LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa.) -- Rain or shine. Sleet or snow. Just not on the Sabbath. Former U.S. Postal Service letter carrier Gerald Groff spent every day for seven years deliv...
Apr 13, 2023
Biden admin pauses asylum processing changes for migrants at border
Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is pausing a key effort to reform and increase asylum processing at the border, the Department of Homeland Security confi...
Apr 13, 2023
Unprecedented Texas abortion pill ruling sparks debate about 'judge shopping'
Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- An unprecedented ruling by a single federal judge in Texas on mifepristone is raising concerns of "judge shopping" in a lega...
Apr 12, 2023
With mifepristone in limbo, Harris reaffirms White House commitment to abortion access
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With Americans' access to the abortion pill mifepristone still in limbo, Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday convened a meeting of a White House ...
Apr 12, 2023
Justin J. Pearson: Shelby County Board of Commissioners votes to reinstate expelled lawmaker
Seth Herald/Getty Images(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) -- Less than a week after being ousted by the Tennessee House of Representatives by the Republican supermajority, District 86 representative Justin J. Pea...
Apr 12, 2023
Chicago mayor-elect talks combatting rising crime levels, investing in education
Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- Growing up with nine siblings, who all shared one bathroom, Chicago mayor-elect Brandon Johnson said his father taught him: "We are only as strong as the ...
Apr 12, 2023
GOP Sen. Tim Scott launches 2024 presidential exploratory committee
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina on Wednesday launched his 2024 presidential exploratory committee. "I bear witness to what America can do for anyone...
Apr 12, 2023
Timeline in leak of secret US documents
Digital Vision./Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- ABC News has reviewed 38 images that appear to depict classified U.S. intelligence documents that were among dozens apparently shared by one user of an online...
Apr 12, 2023
Donald Trump seeks 4-week delay in E. Jean Carroll defamation, battery trial
ftwitty/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump sought Wednesday to delay a writer's defamation and battery case that is scheduled to go on trial this month, arguing the "deluge" ...
Apr 12, 2023
