Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
'We've lived through some of our darkest days': Biden reflects on 4th of July, COVID
Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Emerging from the White House to "Hail to the Chief," President Joe Biden addressed the largest event of his administration to declare: "All ac...
Jul 05, 2021
Vaccine hesitant are in 'death lottery,' W.Va. governor says
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As the country marked its 245th Independence Day, the Biden administration officially missed its target of getting 70% of all adults at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine. An...
Jul 05, 2021
White House official acknowledges younger Americans are 'less eager' to get vaccinated
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The lead White House COVID-19 response coordinator acknowledged Sunday that younger Americans feel less vulnerable to COVID-19, making them less likely to get vaccinated. "Youn...
Jul 04, 2021
Vaccine hesitant are in 'death lottery,' W.Va. governor says
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- As the country marks its 245th Independence Day, the Biden administration has officially missed its target of getting 70% of all adults at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine....
Jul 04, 2021
Biden backs removing sexual assault, harassment cases from military chain of command
MivPiv/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has announced his support for the recommendation that prosecution of sexual assaults and sexual harassment cases be removed from the military chain of ...
Jul 02, 2021
Gay couple wins case against florist after Supreme Court rejects appeal
DNY59/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Over the objections of three conservative justices, the US Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from a Washington State flower shop that violated state anti-discriminati...
Jul 02, 2021
Biden is rated poorly on handling crime; alternative approaches win broad favor: POLL
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(NEW YORK) -- The number of Americans seeing crime as an extremely serious problem in the United States is at a more than 20-year high, President Joe Biden is...
Jul 02, 2021
Garland orders halt to any further federal executions
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland has ordered a temporary halt to the Justice Department advocating any scheduling of further executions of federal inma...
Jul 01, 2021
Special election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom set for Sept. 14
Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- California voters will decide whether to recall Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and replace him with another candidate in an election set for Sept...
Jul 01, 2021
Trump calls indictment against his company and long-serving CFO 'shameful' and a 'disgrace'
David Dee Delgado/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump called the criminal charges unsealed Thursday against his organization's long-serving chief financial officer Al...
Jul 01, 2021
