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Experts say proposed federal gun safety measures might not have prevented Uvalde shooting
Paul Hennessy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The federal gun safety proposal announced last week by a bipartisan group of senators in response to the attack on Robb Elementary School in ...
Jun 20, 2022
Texas GOP 'rebukes' Republicans working on gun deal, declares opposition to gay and trans people
Michael Dunning/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Texas Republican Party this weekend formally "rebuked" multiple GOP senators, including one of their own, for helping lead bipartisan negotiations on new ...
Jun 19, 2022
Adam Kinzinger thinks Donald Trump 'is guilty of knowing what he did' in Jan. 6 insurrection
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- One of two Republicans on the House's Jan. 6 committee said Sunday he believes former President Donald Trump's actions as described during this month's public hearings "rise to a...
Jun 19, 2022
Recession isn't 'inevitable' but inflation remains 'unacceptably high': Janet Yellen
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A recession is not "at all inevitable" as the Federal Reserve takes increasingly aggressive action to address sharply rising inflation, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunda...
Jun 19, 2022
6 in 10 Americans say Trump should be charged for Jan. 6 riot: POLL
Seth Herald/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With the first full week of hearings for the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now complete, nearly 6 in 10 Americ...
Jun 19, 2022
Dominion's 2020 election lawsuit against Newsmax to move forward, judge rules
Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the Jan. 6 committee continues to lay out its evidence surrounding the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a federal...
Jun 17, 2022
Advocates call on Biden to act on reparations study by Juneteenth
NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty ImagesBeatrice Peterson, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- It's been more than a month since a dozen civil rights and religious groups say they sent a letter to the White House call...
Jun 17, 2022
Trump's pressure on Pence: Key details you might have missed from Thursday's Jan. 6 hearing
White House (WASHINGTON) -- In its third hearing Thursday, the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack outlined former President Donald Trump's pressure campaign against then-Vice Pres...
Jun 17, 2022
Trump's 'heated' call with Pence on Jan. 6 revealed in new photos, testimony
White House(WASHINGTON) -- New details and never-before-seen photographs have emerged about the "heated" phone call between President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of Jan. ...
Jun 16, 2022
Justice Sotomayor gives pep talk to progressives while praising Clarence Thomas
Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a rare public appearance during the frenzied crush of Supreme Court opinion season, delivered public praise of her colleague Ju...
Jun 16, 2022
