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Joe Raedle/Getty Images WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has come to the defense of Attorney General Pam Bondi amid an all-out revolt among his MAGA base over the administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. But his effort over the weekend to quell the outrage only seemed to add fuel to to the fire. “What’s […]
Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday that he will actively stay in the New York City mayoral race, but that he will accept a pledge to abide by the results of a proposed September poll, where he and other candidates would drop out if they aren’t leading. […]
Robert Knopes/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an injunction against the Trump administration’s efforts to gut the Department of Education. The move allows the administration to proceed, for now, with mass firings that slashed nearly half of the agency’s workforce in March as well as other […]
Photo by Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images (TOKYO) — While the European Union has vowed to impose countermeasures if the Trump administration moves forward with its planned 30% tariffs on all EU exports to the U.S., another key strategic ally, Japan, is taking a different approach. Unlike the European Union, the Japanese government has made no indication it plans […]
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired one of the top career officials tasked with advising her and other senior Justice Department officials of their ethical obligations, an official familiar with the dismissal confirmed to ABC News Monday. Joseph Tirrell on Monday took to LinkedIn to post news of his termination, […]
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Republicans are expected to spend the week rushing to try to deliver President Donald Trump a package that formalizes some of the cuts made by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency by striking $9.4 billion from the previously approved federal budget. Congress has until the end of the week […]
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Joe Biden, in an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday, said that he personally made every clemency and pardon decision during the last few weeks of his presidency — including those made with an autopen. However, he and aides told the Times that some decisions for large […]
J. David Ake/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — About two dozen state attorneys general and Democratic governors sued the Trump administration on Monday for withholding more than $6 billion in federal funds for several education programs nationwide. “This is plainly against the law,” North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson told ABC News in an exclusive interview ahead […]
Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office (CLACKAMAS COUNTY, Ore.) — An avid mountain biker has been reported missing in Oregon after not returning from a planned biking trip near Mount Hood on Friday, according to the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. Ralph Sawyer, 52, was reported missing on Friday at approximately 10:30 p.m. after he had left home […]
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A marketing professor at the University of California, Berkeley, was “murdered in cold blood” while visiting his children in Greece, according to his family. Przemyslaw Jeziorski, an associate marketing professor at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, was allegedly shot and killed in Athens on July 4 near the […]
