Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Anti-Trump group started by Rep. Adam Kinzinger faces first test in Texas special election
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- When House Republicans gather in Florida this week for their annual policy retreat, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., will be a thousand miles away in Texas, campaigning for Michael...
Apr 26, 2021
Congress needs to come together on policing: GOP Sen. Rick Scott
Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) - Members of Congress need to work to bring people together on policing, not incite division, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said on "This Week." Scot...
Apr 25, 2021
Derek Chauvin deserves 'maximum sentence': Rep. Karen Bass
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) - Former police officer Derek Chauvin deserves a "maximum sentence," Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" after he was convicted in the mur...
Apr 25, 2021
Biden's 100 days: Low-end approval, yet strong marks on pandemic response: POLL
ABC News/Washington Post and Gallup polls(WASHINGTON) - Intense partisanship is holding Joe Biden to a tepid job approval rating -- the third-lowest for any president at 100 days in office since Harry...
Apr 25, 2021
Kamala Harris to meet virtually with Mexican president in May
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Vice President Kamala Harris will meet virtually with Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador on May 7, when the two will discuss migration. "This meet...
Apr 24, 2021
Amid racial reckoning, National Park Service recognizes new Underground Railroad sites
kellyvandellen/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- As the nation reexamines its long and troubled relationship with race, the National Park Service has opened 16 new locations on the National Underground Railroad N...
Apr 24, 2021
Vaccinated justices pose for Supreme Court photo with new Justice Barrett
ERIN SCHAFF/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- All nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court met in person Friday for the first time in nearly a year and since Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the...
Apr 24, 2021
Biden admin. grants 'blanket authorization' to fly Pride flag at embassies
nktwentythree/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. missions overseas can once again fly the LGBT Pride flag on their official flagpoles, according to an internal State Department cable obtained Friday by ABC Ne...
Apr 24, 2021
Biden to make first overseas trip to UK, Belgium in June
OlegAlbinsky/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will make his first overseas trip as president in June, traveling to the United Kingdom and Belgium to participate in the G-7 and NATO summits, t...
Apr 23, 2021
Biden says US will work with global partners on climate innovations
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- In the second and final day of the virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, President Joe Biden pitched climate change not as a threat, but as an ec...
Apr 23, 2021
