Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
If Roe falls, what can Biden do on abortion access? Advocacy groups get creative
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- If the Supreme Court upends nearly 50 years of abortion rights as expected, all eyes will be on the White House and a liberal president who ha...
Jun 14, 2022
Inside the Trump-backed effort to take 'control' of elections ahead of 2022 and 2024
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- In late April, after a year and a half of former President Donald Trump and his associates pushing false claims of election fraud, a few hundred attendees gathered at a golf re...
Jun 14, 2022
Dramatic details you may have missed in Monday's Jan. 6 hearing
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After nearly two hours on Monday, Chairman Bennie Thompson gaveled out the House Jan. 6 committee's second hearing this mon...
Jun 13, 2022
The 'big lie' looms on Tuesday's primaries in Nevada and South Carolina
Minko Chernev / EyeEm / Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As the House Jan. 6 committee's latest hearings ramp up, they overlap with a set of primary races on Tuesday featuring a slate of Donald Trump-endor...
Jun 13, 2022
Jan. 6 hearing shows Barr saying Trump 'detached from reality' in pushing 'big lie'
MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee holds another public hearing Monday -- this time focused on the "big lie" pushed by former President Donald Trump and hi...
Jun 13, 2022
Trump 2020 campaign manager to testify before Jan. 6 committee Monday
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien will testify before the House Jan. 6 select committee on...
Jun 13, 2022
Advocates, survivors applaud 'new beginning' with Senate's gun deal -- but want more done
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Gun safety advocates and organizations on Sunday quickly applauded the anti-gun violence framework announced by a bipartisan group of senators ...
Jun 13, 2022
Senate group agrees on broad outline of new gun law after Uvalde shooting
Nathan Howard / Stringer / Getty(WASHINGTON) -- A bipartisan group of senators on Sunday announced an agreement had been reached -- though in principle only -- on new legislation meant to address the ...
Jun 12, 2022
DOJ should investigate Trump for possible crimes in election plot, Rep. Schiff says
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice should investigate "any allegation of criminal activity" against former President Donald Trump and his allies raised by the House's Jan. 6 select comm...
Jun 12, 2022
Sarah Palin advances -- over Santa Claus -- in crowded primary for Alaska House seat
Kris Connor / Stringer / Getty(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) -- Sarah Palin got one step closer this weekend to a return to national politics when she successfully advanced through the crowded statewide primary ...
Jun 12, 2022
