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Economic concerns hurt Biden’s approval, keep Democrats in peril ahead of midterms: POLL
ABC News/Washington Post(NEW YORK) -- Economic discontent is hurting President Joe Biden and his party's midterm election prospects, with six in 10 Americans reporting inflation hardships, three-quart...
ABC Audio Feb 27, 2022

LGBTQ youth fight back against Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill
Courtesy Maxx Fenning(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- When CJ Walden heard the news that some Florida classrooms would limit LGBTQ topics under a proposed bill in the state legislature, first he felt shock. The...
Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News Feb 26, 2022

Why 'stand your ground' laws may be connected to higher homicide rates
Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- "Stand your ground laws," have proliferated around the country after they were first introduced in Florida in 2005, with proponents contending that they've kept ...
Ivan Pereira, ABC News Feb 26, 2022

Introducing historic pick, Biden promises Supreme Court that looks 'like America'
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Amid an international crisis demanding his attention, President Joe Biden still took time out Friday to introduce to the nation his first high court nominee --...
Libby Cathey, ABC News Feb 25, 2022

Biden to order personal sanctions on Putin as Russian forces close in on Kyiv
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Amid pressure at home and abroad, the White House announced Friday that the U.S. will personally sanction Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister...
Libby Cathey, ABC News Feb 25, 2022

Jan. 6 panel questions Donald Trump Jr.'s fiance, GOP fundraiser Kimberly Guilfoyle
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Friday interviewed Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancé of Donald Trump Jr. and a GOP opera...
Benjamin Siegel, ABC News Feb 25, 2022

Poll finds sharp partisan divisions on the impact of a Black woman justice
Grant Faint/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Leading into President Joe Biden’s first Supreme Court nomination, Americans are split along partisan lines on a range of attitudes relating to the high cou...
Sofi Sinozich Feb 25, 2022

Biden nominates Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman on Supreme Court
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/POOL(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for the U.S. Supreme Court, elevating an African American woman ...
Devin Dwyer, ABC News Feb 25, 2022

Biden to attend NATO summit from Situation Room as Putin invades Ukraine
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will attend an emergency NATO summit Friday morning from the White House Situation Room to coordinate next steps ...
Libby Cathey, ABC News Feb 25, 2022

House Oversight Committee expands probe into Trump's handling of White House records
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House Oversight and Reform Committee on Friday expanded its investigation into former President Donald Trump's White House records, requesting new informati...
Benjamin Siegel and Rachel Scott, ABC News Feb 25, 2022
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