Category Archives: Politics News – ABC Audio
Judge orders immediate enforcement of Georgia election workers' $148M judgment against Giuliani
RapidEye/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A federal judge on Wednesday granted former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss' request to expedite their $148 million judgment against Rudy Giulia...
Dec 21, 2023
Trump asks Supreme Court not to weigh in, now, on whether he's immune from Jan. 6 charges
Walter Bibikow/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Attorneys for former President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay out of the legal debate over presidential immunity regarding hi...
Dec 21, 2023
Qualifications announced for ABC News' New Hampshire Republican debate
Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- ABC News on Wednesday announced how Republican presidential candidates will be able to qualify for the network's upcoming New Hampshire primary debate in Jan...
Dec 21, 2023
Republican candidates defend Trump after Colorado 14th Amendment ruling
Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on Dec. 19, 2023. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- Republican ...
Dec 21, 2023
Biden claims Trump 'embraces political violence,' plays down his poor polling
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at an economic event at the Wisconsin Black Chamber of Commerce in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/Bloomberg via Getty Images)(WAS...
Dec 21, 2023
'Fat Leonard,' mastermind behind US Navy corruption scandal, arrested
U.S. Marshals Service via AP(NEW YORK) -- Fugitive Leonard Glenn Francis, also known as "Fat Leonard," the mastermind behind the worst corruption scheme in U.S. Navy history, was arrested and ret...
Dec 20, 2023
Boston Mayor Wu apologizes to 2 Black men wrongly accused in 1989 murder
Marla Aufmuth/Getty Images for Massachusetts Conference For Women(BOSTON) -- Boston Mayor Michelle Wu publicly apologized to two Black men who were wrongfully accused in the 1989 murder of a preg...
Dec 20, 2023
DOJ alleges Houston developer swindled Hispanic borrowers with 'bait and switch' scheme
Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- The Justice Department on Wednesday announced its first-ever predatory mortgage lending lawsuit against a Houston-based developer they accuse ...
Dec 20, 2023
US releases ally of Venezuela’s President Maduro in a swap for 10 jailed Americans
Gaby Oraa/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration completed a prisoner swap with Venezuela Wednesday, granting clemency to one of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's close allies i...
Dec 20, 2023
Trump claims he's never read Hitler’s "Mein Kampf," as he doubles down on anti-immigrant phrase
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump looks on during a campaign event on Dec. 19, 2023 in Waterloo, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Dona...
Dec 20, 2023
