Politics

People walk on the campus of the University of Southern California on March 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Biden is set to announce new student debt forgiveness plans that, combined with actions the administration has already taken, will benefit over 30 million Americans if the plans […]

ABC News The Israeli drone strike that killed seven workers with chef José Andrés’ aid group, World Central Kitchen, is something he will “have to live with” for the rest of his life, he said in an exclusive new interview with ABC News. “It is unforgivable,” Andrés told “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz in a […]

ABC News White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday that reforms by Israel after its deadly strike on an aid convoy in Gaza last week have to be verified over time to restore “confidence.” Seven workers with the World Central Kitchen, or WCK, were killed in the attack, which Israel has described […]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Friday he is still “listening” to arguments about the assault on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob on Jan. 6, 2021, to try to “hear every side,” and suggested, without evidence, that prosecutions of the rioters have been politically motivated. Kennedy, who is […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — There could be potential general election ballot access concerns for President Joe Biden in Ohio, the state’s Secretary of State’s office said in a letter to Ohio Democratic Chair Liz Walters on Friday. In the letter, obtained by ABC News, legal counsel for Secretary of State Frank LaRose sought clarification […]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Friday visited the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. During his visit he received an operational briefing on the recovery efforts and an aerial tour aboard Marine One of the wreckage still in the Patapsco River. Biden met […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Just weeks into his tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley pitched to voters something that former President Donald Trump has spoken against consistently throughout the campaign trail: mail-in voting. “We need to build a national early-vote program that is going to communicate with [voters] through door […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former first lady Melania Trump will be headlining a Mar-a-Lago fundraiser later this month for Log Cabin Republicans, the largest organization representing LGBT conservatives in the United States. It’s a rare appearance at a fundraising event by the former first lady, who has mostly stayed away from former President Donald […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After House Republicans introduced legislation to rename an airport outside of Washington, D.C., after former President Donald Trump, a group of House Democrats are now proposing a bill to rename a federal prison in Miami after Trump. The legislation, which would rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida as […]

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden said Friday that Israel is responding to his demand for actions to limit humanitarian suffering in Gaza — changes the White House said need to be “meaningful” in order for Israel to avoid a change in U.S. support. “I asked them to do what they’re doing,” Biden […]