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Obama to announce executive actions on gun control Tuesday
(ABC News) -- President Obama plans to announce executive actions he will take on gun control on Tuesday, a source told ABC News. Obama had announced during his weekly address Friday that he planned to discuss gun control options with…
Trump Says He'll Start Spending At Least $2 Million a Week
(ABC News) -- GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said he'll be spending at least $2 million a week starting Jan. 4 as the primary season kicks into high gear, after resisting buying advertising in his self-financed campaign. "I'll be spending a…
Feds Plan Sweep of Undocumented Immigrants Still in US Despite Orders to Leave
(ABC News) -- Federal immigration authorities are planning a nationwide sweep of undocumented immigrants and families who are still in the United States even after being ordered by a judge to return home, according to U.S. officials. The move -- expected…
Clinton Announces $2 Billion Effort to Cure Alzheimer's
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday a $2 billion annual effort to cure Alzheimer's disease by 2025 as part of her broader healthcare strategy in the 2016 presidential election. The Democratic front-runner says her plan will "prevent, effectively treat…
Poll: Half of Voters Would Be 'Embarrassed' by Trump as President
(ABC News) -- Fifty percent of American voters say they would be “embarrassed” if Donald Trump were president, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released this morning. The current Republican frontrunner, whose 28 percent support in this poll tops…
Scott to Wrap Up 2015 Tour of All SC Counties
FLORENCE, S.C. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Tim Scott will finish his goal of visiting all 46 counties in South Carolina in 2015 with several days to spare. Scott plans a trip Tuesday to Dillon County to meet people and business…
Trump Makes Sexually Derogatory Remark About Hillary Clinton, Calls Bathroom Break 'Disgusting'
(ABC News) -- In one of his most vicious attacks yet against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump used a sexually derogatory remark in reference to her and said that her bathroom break during the last debate was "disgusting."…
Behind the Numbers on Opposition to an Assault Weapons Ban
(ABC News) -- We’ve gotten intense interest in our latest ABC News/Washington Post poll finding first-time majority…
Led by GOP, House nears OK of renewing $600B in tax cuts
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…
AP EXPLAINS: Why Trump Can't Shut Down the Internet
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…
Trump Hints He May Ditch His Jet for Air Force One If Elected
(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,…
Federal Reserve Raises Interest Rates for First Time in Nearly a Decade
(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,…
Nielsen: 18 Million Watched GOP Debate
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…
Ben Carson Calls for Declaration of War Against ISIS
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…
National Politics
- Scott Colom and Black Mississippians stand on the cusp of Senate history as vote count stretches on Nov 7, 2026 11:24 PM ESTDemocrat Scott Colom hasn't won Mississippi’s U.S. Senate race, but the local prosecutor was welcomed as a historic figure as he strolled through the Jackson business district where civil rights leaders once organized
- House Democrats will start their majority focused on boosting healthcare and ending the Iran war Nov 7, 2026 4:01 PM ESTHouse Democratic leaders are placing an early emphasis on healthcare as they discuss their immediate priorities upon the swearing in of a new Congress on Jan. 3
- Nithya Raman to take charge in LA amid homeless crisis and political division Nov 7, 2026 3:59 PM ESTIn her bid for Los Angeles mayor, Nithya Raman ran as an outsider
- Connecticut Sen. Murphy discharged from hospital after stroke, goes to rehab facility Nov 6, 2026 8:16 PM ESTConnecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy says he has been discharged from the hospital after suffering a stroke last weekend and will miss “several weeks” of votes in the Senate as he recovers in a rehabilitation facility
- Jay Rockefeller, former West Virginia governor and US senator, dies at 89 Nov 6, 2026 3:30 PM ESTJay Rockefeller, the last member of his family’s political dynasty who served as West Virginia’s governor and later a longtime U.S. senator, has died
- Left-leaning Washington, Colorado join conservative states in banning trans athletes Nov 6, 2026 7:59 AM ESTVoters in Washington and Colorado have approved measures to ban transgender athletes from participating in school sports
- Trump's DC projects a likely casualty of Democrat's domination of Congress Nov 6, 2026 7:53 AM ESTIn his first public appearance after an election that soundly repudiated his policies, President Donald Trump turned to a topic both familiar and, given the context, surprising
- US escalates economic campaign against Cuba and targets China-based suppliers Nov 5, 2026 8:30 PM ESTThe Trump administration has escalated its economic campaign against Cuba
- It's too early to call the outcome of California's proposal to tax billionaires Nov 4, 2026 9:38 AM ESTA California measure to tax the net worth of billionaires was too early to call Wednesday morning as the vote tally continued
- Seahawks have a 'sense of urgency' after loss to the Bears Nov 3, 2026 8:18 PM ESTFor the first time in nearly two years, the Seattle Seahawks lost a game by double digits
