Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Trump's focus on 2020 election got in the way of COVID response during deadly winter, Birx says
Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Deborah Birx, a former White House COVID response coordinator under then-President Donald Trump, told Congress on Thursday that Trump's...
Jun 24, 2022
Nancy Pelosi's husband charged with DUI causing injury: Napa County DA
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, FILE(NAPA COUNTY, Calif.) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, has been charged with driving under the influence, causing injury, following his May 28 a...
Jun 23, 2022
Stunning details you might have missed from Thursday's Jan. 6 hearing on Trump's pressure campaign against DOJ
Mandel Ngan-Pool/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The House Jan. 6 committee hearing on Thursday afternoon focused on what it said was a "brazen attempt" by then-President Donald Trump to misuse the ...
Jun 23, 2022
Breyer invokes Uvalde, Buffalo in dissent on Supreme Court’s gun rights ruling
Saul Loeb - Pool/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Stephen Breyer invoked the nation’s latest gun violence massacres, including those at Uvalde and Buffalo, in his dissent against the Su...
Jun 23, 2022
High drama as Jan. 6 hearing details Trump's effort to corrupt Justice Department
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Thursday's hearing of the Jan. 6 committee focused on the pressure then-President Donald Trump and his allies put on the Justice Department to help overturn the 2...
Jun 23, 2022
Feds search home of former DOJ official tied to Trump's efforts to overturn election
Yuri Gripas-Pool/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- Federal agents searched the Virginia home of former Trump Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark on Wednesday morning, according to multiple sourc...
Jun 23, 2022
Biden welcomes wounded warriors, families to White House ahead of annual bike ride
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcomed wounded service members to the White House Thursday ahead of their annual bike ride. "You're the best Am...
Jun 23, 2022
Gun safety bill clears Senate filibuster, advances toward final vote
Brandon Bell/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate voted Thursday to cut off debate on a gun safety bill crafted amid a disturbing uptick in shootings across the U.S. Fifteen Republicans sided ...
Jun 23, 2022
After Thursday, Jan. 6 hearings pushed for 'several weeks' as committee considers new evidence
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After Thursday's hearing, the House Jan. 6 select committee will delay its final hearings for several weeks, a spokesperson confirmed...
Jun 22, 2022
Missouri Republicans sound the alarm on a scandal-plagued, resurgent Eric Greitens: 'Damaged goods'
Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, FILE(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) -- Penelope Quigg is a lifelong Republican voter. But the chair of the Republican Party in Cole...
Jun 22, 2022
