Politics

Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A federal judge wants to hear directly from one of the top officials at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau to learn if the Trump administration is unlawfully gutting the agency or just trying to streamline it. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson — who expressed concern the […]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday — his first speech to Congress of his second term. His speech will be his fifth public address before a joint session of Congress, and comes at a time when Republicans hold a trifecta […]

ABC News Sen. Amy Klobuchar backed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday after the volatile White House meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday, saying she “just couldn’t believe” how Friday’s meeting unfolded.. The Minnesota Democrat told ABC News’ “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos she was “appalled by what happened in the Oval Office,” and […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Crowds of current and recently fired federal workers gathered at a job fair in Maryland on Saturday to search for new career opportunities as the Trump administration continues its purge of federal workers. Many were filled with despair and frustration over the cuts, spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Department of Government […]

(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — While Friday’s explosive meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ended with a shouting match, the start of the Oval Office meeting was full of optimism about signing the minerals deal. Trump, who called the Ukrainian president a dictator last week, started the […]

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington DC, United States on February 04, 2020. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday — his first speech to Congress of […]

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Congressional Republicans on Friday were nearly unanimous in their praise of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance after they and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a fiery exchange before live cameras in the Oval Office. Speaking to reporters in the White House driveway right afterward, South Carolina […]

Photo by TETIANA DZHAFAROVA/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of bipartisan senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday morning ahead of the tense exchange between the Ukrainian leader, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Chris Coons, D-Del., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., as well as other Democratic and […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Transgender service members are fighting back against the Pentagon’s recent announcement requiring the separation of transgender people from the military. Lt. Cmdr. Geirid Morgan has served in the Navy for 14 years as part of the medical service corps. She told ABC News that as an openly transgender woman, seeing the […]

Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a month of fits and starts, a final hammer came down on the U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday night when the State Department, which had previously said it was going to review all foreign aid, announced that review was over and it had decided to terminate nearly […]