Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Durbin defends Biden administration decision on fighter jet deliveries to Ukraine
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Sen. Dick Durbin on Sunday defended the Biden administration's decision to not facilitate the delivery of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine from Poland. "There are other ways for us...
Mar 20, 2022
'It's Putin's war, not [the] Russian people's war': Russian anti-war journalist
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Russian people do not support Russia's actions in Ukraine, Marina Ovsyannikova, the Russian journalist who made headlines after staging an anti-war protest on live TV, said Sunda...
Mar 20, 2022
Top Senate Republican advises President Joe Biden ahead of NATO summit
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As President Joe Biden heads to Brussels this week for an extraordinary NATO summit, Sen. John Barrasso, the third-ranking Senate Republican, said he wants the president to "le...
Mar 20, 2022
Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings live updates: Questioning begins Tuesday
Kevin Lamarque-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in its 233-year history, will appear on Monday before the Senate ...
Mar 20, 2022
New COVID-19 czar Dr. Ashish Jha brings visibility, scrutiny to role
Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A little over a year ago, the U.S. pandemic response was all about the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. The focus was on getting vials and need...
Mar 19, 2022
As crimes rise, battles rage on about police funding
Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- When President Joe Biden said "the answer" to nationwide crime surges was to fund police, he reignited intense ...
Mar 19, 2022
Biden admin considering ways to fast-track bringing Ukrainian refugees to U.S.
Omar Marques/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is considering ways to fast-track bringing Ukrainian refugees to the U.S. amid the historic surge across Europe of Ukrainians fle...
Mar 18, 2022
House passes CROWN Act to ban discrimination against Black hairstyles nationwide
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman/Twitter(WASHINGTON) -- A few short years ago, California became the first state to legally ban racial hair discrimination. On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives ...
Mar 18, 2022
Biden, Xi hold high-stakes call on where China stands on Russian invasion
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- In a high-stakes video call, President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping spoke Friday morning for the first time since November amid ...
Mar 18, 2022
Biden administration meets with Florida LGBTQ community on 'Don't Say Gay' bill
Kenneth Higgins / EyeEm/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Officials from the Biden administration met with Florida LGBTQ students and their families in a virtual roundtable concerning the now-dubbed "Don't ...
Mar 18, 2022
