Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Former White House press aide appears before Jan. 6 committee
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Sarah Matthews, a Trump White House press aide who resigned over the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, appeared Tuesday for an interview with the Hous...
Feb 09, 2022
Pelosi blasts McCarthy for dodging press on RNC resolution, GOP for hitting 'rock bottom'
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called out GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday, saying he "literally ran away" from ABC News Congressional Correspondent Rac...
Feb 09, 2022
Pressure builds for Biden, Democrats to move past COVID
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- It's a move that would have been unthinkable last year: Weeks after a holiday surge crushed hospitals and more people died in a single month than a typical ...
Feb 09, 2022
House lawmaker apologizes for using vulgarity when asked to mask up
Tetra Images - Henryk Sadura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republican Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, the second-most senior lawmaker in the House, told ABC News he has apologized to Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-O...
Feb 09, 2022
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff escorted out of DC high school because of 'security threat'
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, attending an event at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, was escorted out of the room by a U.S. Secret...
Feb 09, 2022
DOJ preparing extensive evidence, witnesses for first trial of alleged Jan. 6 rioter
Samuel Corum/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- More than 13 months after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department has readied an extensive group of witnesses and a mountain of evidence ...
Feb 08, 2022
McConnell rebukes RNC for breaking tradition as GOP divided over censure resolution
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Republican lawmakers are divided on what could become a defining issue for the GOP after the Republican National Committee passed a censure resolutio...
Feb 08, 2022
Ginni and Clarence Thomas draw questions about Supreme Court ethics
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court's most senior justice, long celebrated by conservatives and reviled by liberals, is facing renewed scrutiny for potenti...
Feb 08, 2022
National Archives retrieves boxes of presidential records from Mar-a-Lago
Oliver Contreras-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said Monday it was "too early" to know if the probe has...
Feb 08, 2022
Biden science adviser resigns after being criticized for mistreating staff
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Following a day of heavy criticism, President Joe Biden’s top science adviser, Dr. Eric Lander, has resigned after an investigation into his mistreatment of...
Feb 08, 2022
