Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Rudy Giuliani now 'target' of Georgia criminal probe into effort to overturn 2020 election: Sources
Spencer Platt/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has been informed that he is considered a "target" of the Georgia criminal investigati...
Aug 15, 2022
FBI search of Mar-a-Lago raises critical national security questions: Sources
Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Administration sources familiar with the investigation tell ABC News the amount and the sensitivity of confidentia...
Aug 15, 2022
After Mar-a-Lago search, authorities warn of threats to the judge and others involved
Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Federal officials warned in a new bulletin that law enforcement officers and others in the government are facing increasing threats after last week's unprecedented search o...
Aug 14, 2022
Texas Gov. Abbott meets with Uvalde victims amid scrutiny over engagement with community
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)(UVALDE, Texas) -- Texas Gov. Greg Abbott traveled to Uvalde amid growing criticism of his level of engagement with a community still reeling from the May 24 shoo...
Aug 13, 2022
John Fetterman, 'grateful' in return to PA Senate race, rips Oz and leaves supporters analyzing his health
Nate Smallwood/Getty Images(ERIE, Pa.) -- In front of a crowd nearly triple the anticipated turnout, John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for Senate in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, s...
Aug 13, 2022
Florida to ban gender-affirming care under Medicaid for transgender recipients
Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Florida will soon bar transgender residents from using Medicaid to pay for gender-affirming care, according to the state's ...
Aug 12, 2022
US is facing a poll worker shortage -- new campaign hopes to recruit veterans to fill the gap
adamkaz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic -- and with ongoing concerns about political violence -- America is facing a critical shortage of poll workers, exper...
Aug 12, 2022
Man pleads guilty to cyberstalking, threatening Okla. Rep. Kevin Hern
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- An Oklahoma man admitted Wednesday to cyberstalking Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., and threatening Hern and his wife, federal prosecutors announced. Keith Charles...
Aug 12, 2022
Republicans stress this attack in Iowa: Democrats don't value your caucus enough
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Republicans are seeking to turn an Iowa issue -- Democrats' likely decision to scrap the state as first-in-the-nation on its presidential nominating calendar -...
Aug 12, 2022
Trump investigation live updates: FBI collected top secret docs from Mar-a-Lago
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Search documents were released by the court on Friday after the FBI executed an unprecedented raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estat...
Aug 12, 2022
