Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Biden will speak after Chauvin verdict, has been in touch with local authorities: White House
Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) - The White House has begun taking steps to prepare for the outcome in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, White House press secretar...
Apr 19, 2021
Anger that motivated McVeigh remains dangerous, potent force in divided America: Attorney General Garland
ABC News(TUSLA, Okla. ) - Two days after an American terrorist visited death and destruction on the heartland, a slight, soft-spoken lawyer in Washington, D.C., was dispatched to run the investigation...
Apr 19, 2021
Pelosi rejects GOP threat to censure Rep. Maxine Waters for 'inciting violence'
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(LONDON) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday rejected GOP claims Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters was "inciting violence" when she said in Minnesota over the weekend that p...
Apr 19, 2021
Hirono: Anti-Asian hate bill chance for Senate to 'take a stand'
Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) - As the Senate prepares to take up her anti-Asian hate crime bill this week, Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, said Monday the bill represents a chance for lawmak...
Apr 19, 2021
ICE to stop using the term 'illegal alien' referring to immigrants
ozgurdonmaz/iStock(WASHINGTON) - U.S. immigration enforcement agencies will no longer use the term "illegal alien" in official communications to refer to immigrants in the country, according to two fe...
Apr 19, 2021
Tulsa race massacre and OKC bombing products 'of the same kind of hatred': AG Garland
Luke Barr/ABC News(TULSA, Okla.) -In his first trip as the nation's top law enforcement official, Attorney General Merrick Garland visited the sites of two of the worst domestic terrorist attacks in U...
Apr 19, 2021
Attorney General Garland remembers OKC bombing, points to threat of domestic terror
ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas speaks with Attorney General Merrick Garland in Tulsa, OK. - (Luke Barr/ABC News)(TULSA, Okla.) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland struck a solemn t...
Apr 19, 2021
'Unbearable' conditions push Biden administration to close Houston migrant center
grandriver/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration over the weekend shuttered a Houston warehouse that housed unaccompanied migrant children following allegations that the nonprofit organizatio...
Apr 19, 2021
A decision to lift the J&J suspension could occur by Friday: Fauci
Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) - A decision to lift the suspension of administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine might occur by Friday, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci ...
Apr 18, 2021
Blinken defends Biden's refugee cap, Afghanistan withdrawal in exclusive interview
Mark Makela/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) - In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the Biden administration amid a barrage of criticism from Democratic lawmaker...
Apr 18, 2021
