Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Obamas, Bidens reunite at White House for official portrait unveiling
Caroline Purser/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama returned to the White House Wednesday, reuniting with now President Joe Biden and first l...
Sep 07, 2022
Steve Bannon expected to surrender to New York prosecutors Thursday: Sources
Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Steve Bannon, former adviser to former President Donald Trump, is expected to surrender to prosecutors in New York on Thursday, source...
Sep 07, 2022
Texas says it spent over $12 million to bus migrants to sanctuary cities
Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE(AUSTIN, Texas) -- Texas has spent over $12 million as of mid-August in busing migrants to New York City, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, a spokesperson fo...
Sep 06, 2022
Primary day in Massachusetts sees key GOP race, while Dem candidate could make history
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Tuesday is primary day in Massachusetts, where attention turns to the GOP gubernatorial race between a Donald Trump-backed hopeful and a more...
Sep 06, 2022
Why election experts worry for American democracy and what they say can be done
adamkaz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Donald Trump first introduced unsubstantiated election fraud conspiracy claims into the political mainstream during the 2016 campaign before making them the focus o...
Sep 06, 2022
Congress returns facing must-pass funding bill as midterms loom
Tim Graham/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- When Democrats left Washington in August, they did so on the wings of a series of policy wins, leaving town after pushing through many of President Joe Biden's k...
Sep 06, 2022
Judge grants Donald Trump's request for special master, halts government review of seized Mar-a-Lago documents
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In a win for Donald Trump, Judge Aileen Cannon has granted a request from the former president's legal team to appoint a special master to review documents se...
Sep 05, 2022
Biden, ahead of midterms, marks Labor Day in election battleground states
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden, who prides himself as being a pro-union president, on Labor Day kicked off the unofficial start of the fall campaign seas...
Sep 05, 2022
Trump acted under 'different set of rules that apply to him' as former president: Rep. Michael McCaul
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Nearly one month since the FBI's search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, cited the privileges given to Trump as a former pres...
Sep 04, 2022
Trump calls Biden 'enemy of the state' during 1st rally since Mar-a-Lago search
Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WILKES-BARRE, Penn.) -- In his first rally since the FBI searched his Mar-a-Lago home last month, former President Donald Trump took the stage in Pennsylv...
Sep 04, 2022
