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Jan. 6 committee unexpectedly adds hearing for Tuesday
Aaron Schwartz/Xinhua via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will hold a hearing this Tuesday, June 28, after previously r...
Jun 27, 2022
Supreme Court sides with coach in public school prayer case
Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images(WASHINGTION) -- The Supreme Court on Monday said separation of church and state does not prohibit public school employees from praying aloud on the job near students. The ca...
Jun 27, 2022
Kristi Noem celebrates Roe v. Wade's overturning but says women shouldn't 'be prosecuted' for abortions
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Sunday that women shouldn't be prosecuted for seeking abortions following the Supreme Court's ruling last week overturning Roe v. Wade, which...
Jun 26, 2022
Charges for Trump or others not a 'principal interest,' Jan. 6 committee's Jamie Raskin says
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, said Sunday that criminal charges against the people involved in trying ...
Jun 26, 2022
Supreme Court 'set a torch' to last of its legitimacy with Roe reversal, Elizabeth Warren argues
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court has "burned whatever legitimacy they may still have had" with their ruling last week overturning Roe v. Wade, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth War...
Jun 26, 2022
Biden signs bipartisan gun safety package into law
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the gun safety package passed by Congress this week. "Time is of the essence," Biden said as he deliver...
Jun 25, 2022
Biden heads to Europe amid domestic turmoil over abortion, guns
Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden departs for Europe on Saturday in an effort to stave off cracks in the Western alliance against Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- and...
Jun 25, 2022
First lady Jill Biden grieves with Surfside families on one-year anniversary of collapse
Joe Raedle/Getty Images)(SURFSIDE, Fla.) -- First lady Jill Biden spoke Friday morning at the site of the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, on the one-year anniver...
Jun 24, 2022
Violence by extremists could occur 'for weeks' in wake of Supreme Court decision: DHS
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Homeland Security expects violence could occur "for weeks" from domestic violent extremists following the Supreme Court decision ove...
Jun 24, 2022
Supreme Court abortion ruling live updates: Americans can get abortions in Canada: Trudeau
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision in a much-anticipated ruling Friday in one of its biggest decisions this term. The court voted 5-4, larg...
Jun 24, 2022
