Politics

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Disney/Randy Holmes (WASHINGTON) — The high-profile Democratic governors of Illinois, Minnesota and New York are defending their states’ immigration policies in a Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Thursday — weighing in on the ongoing Los Angeles protests over immigration enforcement. JB Pritzker of Illinois, Tim Walz of Minnesota and Kathy Hochul of New […]

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker. Disney/Randy Holmes (WASHINGTON) — The House Oversight Committee is hearing from the high-profile Democratic governors of Illinois, Minnesota and New York on Thursday during a timely hearing about their states’ immigration policies that some members of the Republican-led committee call “sanctuary” policies that they claim shield criminal illegal aliens from immigration […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning about the threat of nuclear war in a video posted to her personal account on X, marking a sharp contrast with past comments made by former President Donald Trump on the same topic. Gabbard, who recently visited Hiroshima, Japan, reflected on […]

David McNew/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — There are currently 4,100 California National Guardsmen and 700 Marines in the greater Los Angeles area after President Donald Trump ordered them to protect federal buildings and federal law enforcement as protests opposed to ICE raids increased over the weekend. Most of the attention has been focused on the […]

Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Elon Musk called President Donald Trump on Monday night, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News, after their bitter public feud last week. Musk posted on X early on Wednesday morning, “I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Pam Bondi rejected that President Donald Trump’s pardons for hundreds of rioters who assaulted police during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol creates a double standard with the administration’s aggressive response to violence at immigration protests in Los Angeles. “Well, this is very different,” Bondi said Wednesday in an […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President Donald Trump’s challenge to his “one of a kind” felony hush money conviction in New York should be removed from state appellate courts and heard in federal court, an attorney for the president argued Wednesday. Just over a year after Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of a […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (SAN ANTONIO) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he was deploying the Texas National Guard to multiple locations across the state to “ensure peace and order.” The deployment comes ahead of planned protests this week in Texas, including on in San Antonio. A statement from Abbott’s office obtained by ABC News’ affiliate […]

J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s political operation has approached Texas Republicans about redrawing the Texas congressional map ahead of next year’s midterms, in a bid to protect Republicans’ fragile House majority, multiple sources familiar with the discussions told ABC News. Texas Republican lawmakers, who met on the topic at the U.S. […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Just over a year after Donald Trump became the first former president to be found guilty of a felony, an appeals court is set to hear the president’s bid to move his case to federal court. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has scheduled oral arguments […]