Gun rights lobbyists and gun owners rally in support of concealed carry gun legislation, March 5, 2014 in Springfield Ill. (ABC News) — We’ve gotten intense interest in our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finding first-time majority opposition to an assault weapons ban. What follows is an attempt to explain this result in the context of our decades of research on…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans pushed a year-end tax-cut compromise toward House passage Thursday as Congress prepared to finish 2015 with a flurry of accomplishment and await the partisan collisions sure to dominate the coming election year. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California was leading a charge against the tax measure, but GOP leaders seemed certain to prevail. That would…
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says the government must work with “brilliant people” in Silicon Valley to keep violent extremists offline, even if it means shutting down parts of the Internet. But what he’s proposing isn’t possible with today’s technology. And even if it were, such a move would likely hurt more than potential attackers, and it would hinder…
(ABC News) — “Trump Force One” — you’re fired. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump hinted that if he makes it to the White House, he might ditch his Boeing 757 in favor of an even bigger plane: Air Force One, he told ABC News in an interview aboard his private plane. Douglas Gorenstein/NBC/Getty Images Trump Jet.”Well look there’s something very…
(ABC News) — The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced today that it was raising short-term rates by a quarter point — the first increase in nine years. The unanimous decision had been widely expected by investors after Federal Reserveofficials, including Chairwoman Janet Yellen, had hinted that the central bank was ready to change direction after keeping interest rates between…
NEW YORK (AP) — The Republican presidential debates continue to be a big television draw, with 18 million people tuning in to the confrontation from Las Vegas on Tuesday night. The Nielsen company said on Wednesday this made it the third most-watched among the five GOP primary debates that have taken place so far this year. The first one this…
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson this morning issued a seven-point plan to defeat ISIS — which he calls “Seven Steps to a Safer America” — calling for Congress to issue a formal declaration of war on the Islamic State. “Our country faces grave national security threats,” the retired neurosurgeon said in a statement released this morning. “We must act boldly…
(ABC News) — A young Iraqi Christian girl, whose family has been living in a refugee camp after fleeing ISIS threats, says she forgives the terrorist group and shared her hope for the future. “Yes I forgive them,” Myriam told ABC News “20/20” co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas, adding that “as Jesus said ‘forgive each other, love each other the way I love…
Republicans by more than a 20-point margin support Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the United States – but independents and Democrats oppose the idea by wide margins, producing a broadly negative reaction among Americans overall. All told, 36 percent of adults in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support Trump’s suggestion, while 60 percent say it’s…
(ABC News) — Throughout his improbable run for the White House, Bernie Sanders has boasted that he “has never run a negative ad.” That seemed to change over the weekend, when a Washington Post report noted a new digital advertisement from the Sanders campaign, portraying Hillary Clinton as a candidate funded by banks and “other big money interests.” Within hours…
