Politics

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy and lead negotiator tasked with ending the war in Ukraine, has attracted criticism in Europe and Ukraine after an interview where he appeared to back a number of well-known Kremlin talking points on the conflict. The comments, in which Witkoff seemed to accept […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Multiple Trump administration officials who allegedly held classified discussions on an open messaging platform have in the past condemned the mishandling of classified records by others, including former President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. National security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 21-year-old junior at Columbia University said she was the person whom federal agents were after when they showed up at a residence on West 113 Street earlier this month — and she is now suing President Donald Trump. Federal immigration agents showed up at Yunseo Chung’s apartment near […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House said Monday a Signal group chat discussing a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen that inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, “appears to be authentic.” Members of the Trump administration coordinated highly sensitive war plans on an unsecure group chat, Goldberg wrote in a report […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether or not to send Louisiana legislators back to the drawing board in a high-stakes dispute over the Voting Rights Act and an election map with two majority-black U.S. congressional districts — which the state’s Republican leaders want to keep. The state’s current […]

(Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Donald Trump’s battle with the judiciary escalates, House Republicans are eyeing ways to rein in judges from blocking parts of his agenda. House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan said on Monday his panel will hold hearings next week on U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who is at […]

Jason Almond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday named Alina Habba, his personal attorney-turned-White House counselor, to serve as the next interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. “Alina will lead with the same diligence and conviction that has defined her career, and she will fight tirelessly to […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Members of the Trump administration coordinated highly sensitive Yemen war plans on an unsecure group chat, which accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, he wrote in a report for the publication on Monday. White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes shared with ABC News the statement […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a district court judge’s order that 16,000 terminated federal probationary employees across six agencies and departments be immediately reinstated. The request is the latest challenge to a nationwide preliminary injunction issued by a federal district court judge […]

Jason Almond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second lady Usha Vance will be part of a delegation traveling to Greenland this week, after President Donald Trump’s repeated statements that the U.S. should own and control the semiautonomous Danish territory. Vance’s office announced the trip on Sunday, describing it as one dedicated […]