Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Pelosi blasts 2 House members for unauthorized visit to Kabul airport
Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday sharply criticized two House members for taking an unauthorized trip to Afghanistan, and the Pentagon said t...
Aug 25, 2021
Jan. 6 committee seeks Trump administration records as investigation ramps up
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack on Wednesday sent records requests to eight government agencies, seeking records from the Trump White ...
Aug 25, 2021
House passes John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The House on Tuesday passed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act legislation that aims to strengthen a key component of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 af...
Aug 25, 2021
Army, Marine generals on Afghanistan evacuation: 'I’ve never seen anything like it'
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The clock is ticking for thousands of Americans and allies trapped in Afghanistan, with an evacuation deadline in exactly one week. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Farre...
Aug 24, 2021
Capitol Police investigate 'active bomb threat' near Library of Congress
iStock/Roman Babakin (WASHINGTON) -- Several governmental buildings in Washington, D.C., were evacuated Thursday morning due to a suspicious vehicle and what Capitol Police call "an active bomb threat...
Aug 19, 2021
Biden defends policy decisions as Afghanistan, booster shot fallout builds
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- When President Joe Biden marked his 100th day in office, both the pandemic and the American occupation of Afghanistan seemed like they would soon be in the rearview mirror. Jus...
Aug 19, 2021
Biden says he did not see a way to withdraw from Afghanistan without 'chaos ensuing'
Flickr/Prachatai(WASHINGTON) -- In an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, and the president's first since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, President Joe Biden stood firm i...
Aug 18, 2021
Trump-pardoned friend of son-in-law Jared Kushner re-arrested
iStock/Eloi_Omella (NEW YORK) -- Seven months after he was pardoned by then-President Donald Trump, Ken Kurson, who is a friend of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and an associate of Rudy Giuliani, w...
Aug 18, 2021
Review panel in Georgia could lead to takeover of local election board
iStock/gguy44 (GEORGIA) -- Georgia's State Election Board appointed a bipartisan independent performance review panel on Wednesday to investigate potential violations of election law by officials in F...
Aug 18, 2021
Biden to begin rolling out booster shots the week of Sept. 20
iStock/Hector Pertuz (WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is prepared to begin rolling out booster shots for many Americans the week of Sept. 20, the nation's top health officials announced Wednes...
Aug 18, 2021
