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Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith contemplates increased security after shooting of Democratic lawmakers
Lawmakers are still reeling from the shooting that killed one Minnesota state legislator and her husband and severely wounded another and his wife
03:10 AM on 06/16/2025 ABC Politics A teenager with a job making burritos became a powerful Minnesota lawmaker who trained service dogs
Melissa Hortman’s power as a Democratic leader to shape the course of a deeply divided Minnesota Legislature was a far cry from her job as a teenager making chili-cheese burritos and overshadowed her volunteer work training service dogs for veterans
07:34 PM on 06/16/2025 ABC Politics North Carolina redistricting trial begins over racial gerrymandering claims
North Carolina congressional and legislative districts drawn by Republicans in 2023 that helped them retain majorities in Raleigh and Washington are in court
02:44 AM on 06/16/2025 ABC Politics The GOP's big bill would bring changes to Medicaid for millions
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley has been clear about his red line as the Senate takes up the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: no Medicaid cuts
07:51 AM on 06/15/2025 ABC Politics Missouri governor signs stadium aid package intended to keep the Chiefs and Royals in the state
Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a legislative package on Saturday, approved by Missouri lawmakers earlier in the week, that includes hundreds of millions of dollars of financial aid intended to persuade the Chiefs and Royals to remain in the state
06:06 PM on 06/14/2025 ABC Politics Thousands of protesters crowd into streets, parks and plazas at anti-Trump 'No Kings' demonstrations
Demonstrators are gathering in cities across the U.S. to protest President Donald Trump
04:54 PM on 06/14/2025 ABC Politics Military parade set to kick off in nation's capital as protesters around the country decry Trump
Tanks, troops and marching bands have assembled in the nation’s capital for a massive parade of American military power that was requested by President Donald Trump
05:02 PM on 06/14/2025 ABC Politics US Senate seeks to add expanded compensation for nuclear radiation victims to tax bill
The U.S. Senate has added language to the major tax and budget policy bill that would restart and expand a compensation program for victims of nuclear radiation
04:38 PM on 06/14/2025 ABC Politics Judge blocks Trumps election executive order, siding with Democrats
A judge in Atlanta has blocked President Donald Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democratic state attorneys who called it overreach
09:09 AM on 06/13/2025 ABC Politics As legal fight over Guard deployment plays out, Noem vows to continue Trump's immigration crackdown
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is promising to move forward with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles despite the waves of unrest
06:30 AM on 06/13/2025 ABC Politics California Legislature to back proposal to freeze health care access for some immigrants
The California Legislature will vote on a proposal to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for immigrants without legal status
06:46 AM on 06/13/2025 ABC Politics Nevada GOP governor vetoes voter ID bill that he pushed for in a deal with Democrats
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo has vetoed a bill that would have required voters in the swing state to show a photo ID at the polls
10:54 PM on 06/13/2025 ABC Politics Tennessee judge to hear arguments about releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia from pretrial detention
A Tennessee judge is scheduled to hear arguments about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia can be released from jail pending the outcome of a federal trial on human smuggling charges
12:38 AM on 06/13/2025 ABC Politics Trump is finally getting his chance to try to top France with a grand military parade in DC
Eight years after Donald Trump was dazzled while watching a grand military parade in Paris, the president is finally getting a chance to try to top the spectacle
12:14 AM on 06/13/2025 ABC Politics Trump administration tells immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela they have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security is notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to live and work in the United States has been revoked and they should leave the country
05:02 PM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Officers sue to compel Congress to install a Jan. 6 riot memorial at Capitol
Two of the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters have filed a lawsuit to compel Congress to follow one of its own laws and install a memorial to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack
02:54 PM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Mourners pay respects to late US Rep. Charles Rangel as his body lies in state at New York City Hall
Mourners are paying their respects to former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel as his body lies in state at New York City Hall
12:38 PM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Republican South Carolina House member charged with distributing child sexual abuse material
A Republican South Carolina House member has been arrested and charged with 10 counts of distributing sexual abuse material involving children
10:22 AM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Coinbase adds former top adviser Plouffe as it broadens its political reach
Top Democratic strategist David Plouffe is joining Coinbase as an adviser as the cryptocurrency exchange broadens its political reach
07:34 AM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Standoff with troops in Los Angeles reignites old feud as Newsom resists Trump's immigration raids
An escalating clash pits a Republican president looking to fulfill his mass deportation goals against a Democratic governor with White House aspirations hoping to mobilize opposition
07:02 AM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Dozens of LA-area mayors demand the Trump administration stop intensified immigration raids
Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.S. They also called on Preside...
02:30 AM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics What to know about 'No Kings' protests against Trump's policies on Saturday
Opponents of President Donald Trump’s administration are set to rally in nearly 2,000 cities and towns this weekend
12:54 AM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Trump's military parade is a US outlier in peacetime but parades and reviews have a long history
The military parade commemorating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and coinciding with Donald Trump’s 79th birthday will be a new spectacle for many Americans
12:14 AM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Trump's travel ban fuels despair and disgust with politics among Arab Americans in Michigan
Eight years after President Donald Trump's first travel ban largely targeted majority-Muslim countries, many Arab Americans say his new ban is motivated by bias
12:06 AM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Troops begin detaining immigrants in national defense zone at border in escalation of military role
U.S. troops have begun directly detaining immigrants accused of trespassing on a recently designated national defense zone along the southern U.S. border
08:14 PM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics EPA says power plant carbon emissions aren't dangerous. We asked 30 scientists: Here's what they say
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution
11:18 PM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Trump's mass deportations leave Democrats more ready to fight back
California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked straight into the camera and offered a stark moment for his Democratic Party
08:14 PM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Los Angeles-area mayors demand that Trump administration stop stepped-up immigration raids
Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.S. They also called on Preside...
10:54 PM on 06/12/2025 ABC Politics Vance made a brief trip to Montana to speak to Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, AP says
Vice President JD Vance has made a brief trip to Montana to meet with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan and a group of other Fox News executives
07:39 PM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics Wisconsin lawsuit seeks to ban Elon Musk from offering $1 million checks to voters
A government watchdog group in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from ever again offering cash payments to voters in the battleground state like he did in this spring’s hotly contested Supreme Court race
08:07 AM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump is pulling 'a military dragnet across LA' and threatening democracy
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump is pulling 'a military dragnet across LA' and threatening democracy
10:14 PM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics Jack Ciattarelli wins Republican nomination for governor in New Jersey primary election
Jack Ciattarelli wins Republican nomination for governor in New Jersey primary election
08:30 PM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics Arizona governor vetoes bill banning teaching antisemitism, calls it an attack on educators
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state’s public schools
10:14 PM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics National Guard troops are now protecting ICE agents as they make arrests in LA
National Guard troops are now protecting ICE agents as they make arrests in LA
08:06 PM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics North Carolina GOP sends immigration-crackdown bills to Democratic Gov. Stein
Republicans at the North Carolina legislature have given final approval to two pieces of immigration legislation
10:46 PM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics Trump's actions in Los Angeles spur debate over deportation funds in his 'big, beautiful' bill
President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into his mass deportation agenda
11:18 PM on 06/11/2025 ABC Politics Trump heads to Fort Bragg while facing criticism for deploying military at Los Angeles protests
President Donald Trump plans to speak at Fort Bragg to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army
12:22 AM on 06/10/2025 ABC Politics Election conspiracy theorist sticks by false 2020 claims in defamation trial
One of the nation’s most prominent election conspiracy theorists, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell, is sticking by his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen
10:30 PM on 06/10/2025 ABC Politics Trump vows to 'HIT' any protester who spits on police. He pardoned those who did far worse on Jan. 6
President Donald Trump is deploying a double standard in warning protesters against his immigration policies that they will get “hit” if they so much as spit on law enforcement
10:14 PM on 06/10/2025 ABC Politics Judge orders US refugee office to reconsider some children's cases
A federal judge says the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement must reconsider the cases of some migrant children who have been stuck in government custody since the Trump administration changed the identification requirements for would-be family sponsors
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