2020 Hopeful Beto O'Rourke visited an Arkansas gun show to talk about gun control
Jeffrey Cook/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Two weeks after his hometown of El Paso was the site of a mass shooting, 2020 presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke made an unannounced visit to a gun show in central Arkansas to speak with...
Court allows Trump admin asylum restrictions to take place along most of border
VallarieE/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rolled back a prior nationwide injunction that blocked the Trump administration's attempt to deny most asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border. With that...
Trump officials abused, retaliated against career State Dept. employees: IG report
Kiyoshi Tanno/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Career State Department employees in one of the agency's critical bureaus faced harassment, mistreatment and retaliation by its top Trump appointees, according to a new inspector general...
Rep. Rashida Tlaib will not travel to Israel, citing 'oppressive & racist policies'
MicroStockHub/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- One day after blocking two congresswomen from visiting Israel, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has been approved to make a visit to her grandmother in the Israeli-occupied West Bank -- but...
Cardi B, Bernie Sanders discuss immigration, police brutality in new campaign video
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Bernie Sanders has enlisted the help of chart-topping rapper Cardi B in a newly released campaign video. The unlikely pair filmed last month at a black-owned nail salon named TEN Nail Bar in...
Corey Lewandowski joining Trump at New Hampshire rally amid Senate run speculation
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will join him Thursday evening at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, amid speculation that he will formally announce a...
Bennet trolls McConnell with book release, vows to send him a copy for every donation
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Colorado senator and 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bennet has vowed to send a copy of his new book to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for every donation he receives. The self-published...
Trump retweets that America is not in the 'midst of an epidemic of mass shootings'
Official White House Photo by Tia Dufour(WASHINGTON) -- Less than two weeks after a total of 31 people were killed in back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, President Donald Trump retweeted a tweet...
Beto O'Rourke relaunches campaign from El Paso hometown in wake of mass shooting
ABC News(EL PASO, Texas) -- Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke is looking to revive his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday with a speech from El Paso, Texas, his hometown, in the wake of a...
Trump claims 'prices haven't gone up' due to China tariffs in 2020 pitch to New Hampshire voters
adamkaz/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- For the first time this year, President Donald Trump on Thursday will bring his campaign roadshow to a state he lost in 2016: New Hampshire. The president will hold his latest "Keep America...
New Trump administration rule would allow 'religious litmus test' for federal contractors, advocates say
Bumblee_Dee/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would allow federal contractors to factor in religion in hiring a person, a move advocates say would enable employers to apply a religious...
Rep. Steve King asks if there would 'be any population of the world left' if children born of rape, incest were aborted
Luka Banda/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Rep. Steve King is once again facing Democratic criticism after he publicly surmised that he could have incestuous or rapist relatives in his blood line during a convoluted explanation of...
