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Psaki, Harris argue Biden wasn't saying 2022 election results might not be legitimate
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Sarah Kolinovsky, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- One day after President Joe Biden appeared to cast doubt on whether the midterm election results will be legitimate without the...
Jan 20, 2022
One year in, Biden's climate record is a mix of progress and inconsistency
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden arrived in office with lofty expectations from environmentalists who hoped that his ambitious campaign rhetoric would transla...
Jan 20, 2022
Supreme Court paves way for Trump White House document review by Jan. 6 committee
Phil Roeder/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday denied former President Donald Trump's request for a stay of a lower court mandate that hundreds of pages of his presidential rec...
Jan 19, 2022
Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor, Gorsuch dispute having COVID mask flap
Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor did not ask her colleague and seatmate on the bench, Justice Neil Gorsuch, to wear a mask during the omicron surge, a...
Jan 19, 2022
Prosecutors reveal new details of alleged Jan. 6 plotting by Oath Keepers
Michael Godek/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In an effort to keep a newly-arrested member of the Oath Keepers militia group charged in last week's seditious conspiracy indictment behind bars -- the Justi...
Jan 19, 2022
Biden holds rare solo news conference ahead of 1-year mark in office
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- On the eve of the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, President Joe Biden held a formal news conference at the White House Wednesday, answering report...
Jan 19, 2022
Senate fails to change filibuster rule for passage of voting rights legislation
uschools/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Senate on Wednesday night failed to change the filibuster rule to allow voting rights legislation to pass with a simple majority. The rule change would have re...
Jan 19, 2022
Biden's report card: One year in, accomplishments and stalled priorities
MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- With the United States facing many of the same crises that Joe Biden took on when he took office one year ago, the president has been taking stock of hi...
Jan 19, 2022
Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Giuliani, other Trump allies who pushed election fraud claims
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Tuesday subpoenaed former Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell, wh...
Jan 18, 2022
Senate begins debate on voting rights ahead of filibuster showdown
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- For the first time this Congress, the Senate started debating voting rights legislation on Tuesday, a day after Democrats failed to meet their hopeful, symbolic, deadline to pa...
Jan 18, 2022
