Politics

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court ruled Friday that a Texas law that mandated websites with “sexual material harmful to minors” have age verification is constitutional. The court’s conservative judges ruled 6-3. An adult entertainment industry trade group challenged a 2023 Texas law that sites with more than a third of […]

Ryan McGinnis/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted a partial stay of nationwide injunctions issued by district courts against President Donald Trump’s executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship. The 6-3 opinion came from Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The court’s three liberal justices dissented. In a partial win for the president and […]

Brett Carlsen/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is looking to speed up its ability to fine those in the United States illegally — up to $1,000 per day — according to a rule set to be published Friday in the Federal Register that was obtained by ABC News. Currently, the government can alert those […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — “We didn’t do it for recognition. We did it out of duty to one another and to our country.” Those are the humble words of Pfc. John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday. “To be a […]

Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Despite a setback to President Donald Trump’s megabill Thursday morning, the president is set to hold an event in the East Room of the White House to rally Republicans behind his tax legislation. “Later this afternoon, here at the White House, the president will host a ‘One Big, Beautiful Event’ […]

Kevin Carter/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Many Republican senators dismissed the idea of overruling the Senate parliamentarian after she rejected key Medicaid provisions in Trump’s tax and immigration bill Thursday, which dealt a blow to Republicans’ plan to slash costs in the budget package. This sentiment comes as Senate Majority Leader John Thune has said for […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said the U.S. military bomb strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities had “significantly damaged [Iran’s] nuclear program” and “set it back by years” in a confrontational news conference called to counter an early intelligence assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency that said Iran’s program […]

Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Thursday offered enthusiastic praise of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s briefing at the Pentagon, where he provided more information about the U.S. strikes on Iran and defended the president. “One of the greatest, most professional, and most ‘confirming’ News Conferences I have ever seen! The Fake […]

Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Thursday said individual Medicaid recipients do not have a right to sue over their state’s decision to cut off Planned Parenthood from the government-funded health insurance program for low-income residents. The 6-3 decision, which broke along ideological lines, was a significant victory for conservative efforts to […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, told ABC News in a wide-ranging interview aired Wednesday that he plans to win over moderate voters — even as a self-identified Democratic socialist — as he runs in the general election. He said he also believes the Democratic Party […]