Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Liz Cheney positioned as linchpin for credibility of January 6 findings
iStock/ajansen The TAKE with Rick Klein The talk after Wednesday's flurry of activity around Jan. 6 investigations was about separate partisan inquiries covering the same subject -- a subject leaders ...
Jul 22, 2021
States, cities that expected to go bankrupt from pandemic now seeing cash surplus
Nattakorn Maneerat/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- When the pandemic hit Alexandria, Virginia, the economic outlook was bleak. In April 2020, the city projected a budget shortfall of up to $100 million as busin...
Jul 21, 2021
Alabama council member who used racist slur faces calls to resign
City of Tarrant, Alabama(TARRANT, Al.) -- An Alabama city council member is facing calls to resign after he used a racist slur while pointing toward a Black colleague during a meeting Monday night. Jo...
Jul 21, 2021
Top general responds to reports he feared Trump would use military after losing election
Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- America's top general on Wednesday spoke publicly for the first time about whether he feared then-President Donald Trump would try to involve the military in the ...
Jul 21, 2021
Pelosi rejects Republican Jim Jordan for Jan. 6 committee
Bill Chizek/iStock(WASHINGTON) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she rejects two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's five recommendations for the select committee investigating the Jan. ...
Jul 21, 2021
Senate Republicans warn Schumer they won't help on high-stakes infrastructure vote
iStock/AerialPerspective Works (WASHINGTON) -- As the Senate barrels toward a key test vote Wednesday on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, some Senate Republicans involved in trying to nail down ...
Jul 21, 2021
Chipping away at ambitious agenda, Biden marks 6 months as president
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- When President Joe Biden was sworn in six months ago, he inherited several major challenges, including a global pandemic and subsequent economic disruption, a ...
Jul 20, 2021
Trump inauguration head charged with being foreign agent
Michael Kovac/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Tom Barrack, a longtime friend of Donald Trump's who chaired the committee that raised more than $100 million for his inauguration, has been charged with acting...
Jul 20, 2021
Senate Republicans warn Schumer they won't help on Wednesday's high-stakes infrastructure vote
uSchools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The 11 Republicans in the group of senators trying to work out a bipartisan infrastructure deal are sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer saying no GO...
Jul 20, 2021
Vaccinated Pelosi staffer, WH official test positive for COVID-19 amid visit from infected Texas lawmakers
Douglas Rissing/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- A fully vaccinated spokesperson for House Speaker Pelosi tested positive for COVID-19 this week after interacting with several infected Texas Democratic state leg...
Jul 20, 2021
