Today's Top Political and Coronavirus News Compilation - Friday, July 15, 2022 (1 Viewer)

The Atlanta-area district attorney investigating Donald Trump and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia sent a target letter to state Republican party Chair David Shafer, warning him that he may be indicted as part of her investigation, according to two sources familiar...

President Joe Biden has exchanged a cordial fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but says he then raised the issue of the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence has said the crown prince approved.

Ukrainian officials say cruise missiles fired by Russian strategic bombers struck a southeastern Ukrainian city, killing at least three people and wounding 15.

The Georgia prosecutor investigating potential criminal interference in the 2020 presidential election says she's considering requesting that former President Donald Trump testify under oath to a grand jury.

A Russian delegation has visited an airfield in central Iran at least twice in the last month to examine weapons-capable drones, according to national security adviser Jake Sullivan and satellite imagery obtained exclusively by CNN.

President Biden confronted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about the killing of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi Friday, but the crown prince denied personal involvement.

Marc Short tells CBS News' Catherine Herridge about his experience in the Capitol during the Jan. 6 rioting

President Joe Biden has exchanged a cordial fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but says he then raised the issue of the murder of writer Jamal Khashoggi, which U.S. intelligence has said the crown prince approved.

Ukraine says Russia’s attacking capability ‘significantly reduced’ as Kyiv claims destruction of some 30 military sites.

Trump-backed Harriet Hageman is more than 20 points ahead of Rep. Liz Cheney, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, in the Wyoming Republican primary race, a new poll shows.

Prosecutors declined to charge Trump’s former chief of staff with contempt, but in a landmark filing the DOJ says the House has a better legal argument on executive privilege.

The president called for the quicker passage of a smaller reconciliation bill that would address prescription drugs and health care subsidies and leave climate till later.

The Justice Department on Friday articulated for the first time publicly that former close advisers to ex-Presidents may be immune from congressional testimony – though that doesn’t mean Donald Trump’s West Wing staff can avoid the House’s subpoenas related to January 6, 2021.

Elon Musk's lawyers are attempting to block a quick trial in the lawsuit over his backing out of a deal to buy Twitter, according to a report. Musk's lawyers have pushed for a trial to start in February 2023 at the earliest and are opposed to Twitter's push for a quick trial, according to a

Next debate set for Sunday as ruling party looks to choose two candidates to put to a final vote by party members.

“I don’t want to spend one more minute thinking about what Joe Manchin will or won’t do," said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chair of the Democrats' House campaign arm.

The Houston Texans have settled with 30 women accusing the team's former quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct. All 30 of the women have either made claims or intended to make claims against the Texans organization for its role in the allegations against Watson. DESHAUN WATSON SETTLES...

Tucker Carlson, the top-rated Fox News host who has built a following pushing conspiracy theories and lighting into the culture wars, on Friday flirted with a presidential run in his speech to a large gathering of Christian conservative voters in Des Moines, Iowa.

President Joe Biden seems to have bowed to Sen. Joe Manchin’s demand for a slimmed-down economic package.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams hit back at Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp following the incumbent's ad accusing her of supporting the "Defund the Police" movement.

President Joe Biden said Friday he raised the murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi with Saudi Arabia's de-facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Thousands have been arrested on charges related to demonstrating, forcing many to find new ways to protest.

The Department of Homeland Security inspector general on Friday briefed all nine members of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack about the Secret Service erasing text messages from the day of the riot and the day before.

The chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces said that the U.S. military still is behind China in developing hypersonic weapons.

As Russia's war in Ukraine rages on, the Kremlin is expanding its information war throughout Eastern Europe, spreading propaganda and disinformation blaming NATO and the West for its Ukraine invasion.

The group is known for being vocal at school board meetings and pushing back against policies they perceive as liberal in schools.

The operations in the South China Sea challenge what the U.S. says are restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China and other claimants.

A group of House progressives led by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (…

Three men convicted in the murder of a New York City subway toll booth worker were cleared of their convictions by a judge Friday. A judge in Brooklyn dismissed Vincent Ellerbe, James Irons, and Thomas Malik of their murder convictions in the 1995 incident. NYC SEES ODOR COMPLAINTS AMID BATHROOM...

Mike Roman passed the names to a House GOP aide in a bid to get them to then-Vice President Mike Pence, people familiar with the episode told POLITICO.

President Joe Biden has called for “two states for two peoples” — the Israelis and Palestinians — while visiting the West Bank.

The collapse of what would have been the biggest climate-related spending measures in U.S. history is the latest failure by Congress.

The letter charges that the Indiana attorney general is making "false and misleading statements" about the doctor who performed an abortion for a 10-year-old girl.

Russia bans 384 Japanese lawmakers from entering country in response to Tokyo joining the G7 in sanctioning Moscow.

Divisions over the Ukraine war prevented a formal communiqué.

While Americans await the Biden administration’s decision on federal student loan forgiveness, the Education Department is encouraging millions to consider applying for a forgiveness program …

The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, has issued a subpoena to the US Secret Service, marking the first time the panel has publicly done so for an executive branch agency.

"As far as I'm concerned, I want climate, I want an energy policy."

The staff shake-ups continue in the vice president's office. Rohini Kosoglu, domestic policy adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris, has announced she'll be leaving the position in August, continuing a high rate of turnover in Harris's staff. It was also reported that Meghan Groob, Harris's...

President Biden left for his first Middle East trip as president this week, with stops in Israel, the occupied West Bank and Saudi Arabia.

President Joe Biden says gas prices across the U.S. “have been coming down every single day to the best of my knowledge.”

U.S. Border Patrol reported processing migrants 191,898 times along the southern border in June, a 14% drop from May.

Biden turned his attention to restoring ties with Palestinians, which frayed under Donald Trump, before making his controversial trip to Saudi Arabia.

Democrat Beto O’Rourke has raised nearly $32 million in his bid for Texas governor during the first half of 2022. That's more than Republican Gov.

A Colorado judge on Friday nixed an arrest warrant for a county clerk who was indicted on felony charges of tampering with voting equipment and then lost a bid for the Republican nomination to Colorado's top election-management post.

The White House has scrapped President Joe Biden’s plans to nominate an anti-abortion Republican as a federal judge in Kentucky, citing opposition to the nomination from Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday he told Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman he held him responsible for the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, shortly after exchanging a fist bump with the kingdom's de facto ruler.

The number of migrants encountered attempting to enter the United States illegally from Mexico in June topped 200,000 for the fourth consecutive month as the Biden administration struggles to respond to the humanitarian and security crisis.U.S. border officials intercepted 207,416 noncitizens...

Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) decision to move ahead with a reconciliation deal that doesn’t involve climate change risks consigning the entire world to a warmer future, scientists, Democrats and ad…

In a striking rejection of national unity, red-state Trump voters are now more likely to say they’d be personally “better off” than “worse off” if their state seceded from the U.S. and “became an independent country,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

The United states and Saudi Arabia agreed on the importance of stopping Iran from "acquiring a nuclear weapon", during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden, a joint statement carried by the Saudi state news agency (SPA) said.

Milwaukee’s Democratic mayor says he is ready to welcome Republicans with open arms during the next presidential election after a GOP committee voted Friday to recommend the city as the site of the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Putin and Lukashenko have suggested furthering the ‘union state’ will protect their nations from effects of sanctions.

House Democrats on Friday passed the Women's Health Protection Act and Ensuring Access to Abortion Act.

President Joe Biden said on Friday he would act on his own to cut climate emissions and urged his fellow Democrats to pass the few elements of their sweeping domestic policy package they can agree on after talks in the Senate collapsed once again.

Southwest flight attendant Charlene Carter has been awarded $5.1 million after the airline fired her over her stance on abortion, which she publicized on social media.

President Biden is facing a disaster with young voters, increasing fears among Democrats that they are in danger of losing a generation if he doesn’t improve his standing with Generation Z. Biden’s…

John Fetterman has been fundraising, advertising on TV and grabbing attention with snarky social media posts, but he has yet to return to Pennsylvania's campaign trail in a significant way since a May 13 stroke.

The DHS inspector general met with the Jan. 6 committee Friday about deleted Secret Service texts around the time of the Capitol attack.

A former Trump campaign operative delivered lists of false electors on Jan. 6, 2021, to Capitol Hill in an effort to get them to former Vice President Mike Pence, who was presiding over the Senate …

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) was the only House lawmaker to oppose a bill on Friday to temporarily suspend tariffs on imports of baby formula. The measure, titled the Formula Act, initially&n…

The former president and vice president will be in the nation's capital a day apart from each other.

Fulton County, Ga., District Attorney Fani Willis has sent so-called target letters to prominent Georgia Republicans informing them they could be indicted for their role in a scheme to appoint alternate electors pledged to former President Donald Trump despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

A focus of the inquiry has been Trump's Jan. 2, 2021, telephone call in which he urged state officials to tilt the 2020 statewide vote in his favor.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said on Friday she is racing to reveal as much history as possible about abuses within the old Native American boarding school system, which separated generations of children from their families in an attempt to destroy indigenous culture.

The lawyer behind a plot to send fake electors to Congress and keep former President Donald Trump in the White House won’t get his phone back from federal investigators.A federal judge in New Mexico wrote that he isn’t going to keep investigators from using the contents found on John Eastman’s...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed for ‘dronations’ to build up the military’s aerial capabilities.

President Joe Biden has opened a Mideast visit by offering anxious Israeli leaders strong reassurances of his determination to stop Iran’s nuclear program.

Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, has died at age 73, the family told ABC News.

James Mault re-enlisted in the Army last year after being fired over his involvement in Jan. 6. He was arrested in October after the FBI learned he had pepper-sprayed police.

Biden called on the Senate to move quickly to pass a bill to lower prescription drug costs after talks on climate and other items collapsed.

Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking.

Moscow claims Kalibr missiles hit Ukraine air force meeting. Ukraine says 23 people, including 3 children, were killed.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) appears to be losing his star power in the Lone Star State after bucking party lines in support of a bipartisan gun bill. Cornyn's disapproval rating shot up 10 percentage points in recent weeks, jumping to a 50% disapproval rating among registered Texas voters, eclipsing...

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of military technical assistance to Taiwan worth an estimated $108 million, the Pentagon said on Friday.

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor. Breyer retired from the Supreme Court on June 30.

The turnover at the vice president’s office continues.

A senior New York City official with direct knowledge of the matter said the circumstances of her death were consistent with a fall on the stairs.

For now, both chambers are taking slightly different approaches that party leaders say have the same goal: putting Republicans on the record.

Georgia's second-largest school district has approved a policy to allow personnel who are not certified police officers to carry guns, part of its response to the shooting at a Texas school that killed 19 children and two adults two months ago.

One of the bills could codify the right to abortion and the other would ban punishing those who travel out of state for reproductive health care, but Republicans in the Senate oppose the measures.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s exit ends the clan’s rule after more than 20 years as the nation battles its worst economic crisis.

The United States and Saudi Arabia have reiterated their commitment to the stability of global energy markets, during a visit by U.S. President Joe Biden, a joint statement carried by Saudi state news agency (SPA) said.

The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol attack has subpoenaed the Secret Service for text messages agents reportedly deleted around Jan. 6.

A Republican senator has scuttled a deal between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and the White House to nominate an anti-abortion lawyer to a federal court seat.President Joe Biden angered some in his party when he agreed to nominate Chad Meredith to the bench for the U.S. District...

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) introduced a bill on Friday that would ban federal funds from covering travel costs for people who obtain out-of-state abortions. The new legislation would ensu…

New study from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle reveals that risk of sickness, accident and death far outweigh any benefits of alcohol consumption for those under 40.

FoxA New York Post columnist and regular Fox News guest on Friday described Joe Biden as a “special needs” presidential candidate when he ran for office in 2020.Miranda Devine appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight after the namesake host had just finished a monologue criticizing Biden’s mental...

Rafael Caro-Quintero had been wanted over the 1985 kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique Camarena.

Sen. Joe Manchin has told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he will oppose an economic measure if it includes climate or energy provisions or boosts taxes on the rich or corporations.

Prosecutors want the first US Capitol rioter convicted by a jury to spend 15 years behind bars – nearly a decade longer than the most severe sentence a rioter has received so far.

A deadly outbreak of a mystery disease in Tanzania has been identified as leptospirosis, health officials said.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) and his Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke on Friday both announced massive fundraising hauls ahead of the state’s closely watched gubernatorial race in November. …

House committee votes to probe the decision that one Conservative MP called 'a slap in the face to the Ukrainian people.'

Tiger Woods missed the cut at the British Open, but received a thunderous ovation from the crowd at his final hole — possibly his final time playing competitively at the iconic St. Andrew…

The Department of Justice said the Jan. 6 committee has met the requirements to subpoena former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, laying down a new precedent for how much protection former presidential advisers have after they leave office.Meadows had attempted to claim he was exempt from...

The Summit Co. Medical Examiner's Office autopsy report found that Jayland Walker was shot at least 46 times.

The congressional committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol announced on Friday that it will hold a hearing at 8 p.m. EDT on Thursday, July 21.

District Attorney Fani Willis has written letters to people including Georgia Republican Party Chairman David Shafer and State Senators Burt Jones and Brandon Beach over their role in an alleged alternate electors scheme in that state, Yahoo reported, citing unnamed legal sources familiar with...

A power struggle over control of the Kansas City’s police department is going before Missouri voters.

The Navy found the lack of fire prevention measures and inadequate response to the July 2020 fire ultimately led to the destruction of the USS Bonhomme Richard.

Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump were scheduled to be deposed next week in Attorney General Letitia James' civil tax fraud investigation.

A preliminary autopsy report shows that Jayland Walker was shot dozens of times and that 26 bullets were recovered from his body.

Without cellphone footage, people who were met with police violence said it would be harder to hold police accountable and seek justice.

The House will vote next week on a bill aimed at protecting access to contraceptives, a direct response to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas saying the court should reconsider the landmark deci…

Fifty U.S. governors have committed to funding a computer science curriculum at more schools after hundreds of executives including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates sent a letter this week urging action.

Rafael Caro-Quintero stands accused of ordering the kindapping, torture and death of U.S. DEA agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, who had allegedly led the raid on a cartel plantation.

House Republicans are urging TikTok to release information regarding the access that its Chinese employees have to data from U.S. users. Meanwhile, a new Congressional report reveals that several …

Canadian police confirmed on Friday that a man shot dead in British Columbia on Thursday was Ripudaman Singh Malik, a Sikh businessman acquitted in connection with the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people.

House Republicans are plotting revenge on the select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, as the GOP weighs a broader effort to re-litigate some of Donald Trump’s biggest election grievances if it recaptures the House majority.

Lawmakers in the House introduced a bill that would end Puerto Rico’s status as a territory, allowing the island’s residents to choose between three status options. The bill, a result o…

Senator Joe Manchin's decision to halt support for President Joe Biden's climate legislation after more than a year of negotiations has left Democrats with limited options to tackle climate change, an important goal for the president's base.

The U.S. telecoms regulator needs an additional $3 billion dollars to fund the removal from U.S. networks of equipment made by Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE, bringing the total cost to $4.9 billion, the agency told Congress on Friday. Since Congress only appropriated $1.9 billion to...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack will hold what could be its final public hearing of the summer during prime time on Thursday, examining former President Trump’s three hour…

Trains could be disrupted and schools are closing early as temperatures could hit 40C (104F).

The NAACP is making a direct plea to Attorney General Merrick Garland for the Justice Department to open a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting death of Jayland Walker, the Black man who was killed last month by officers in Ohio in a hail of police gunfire.

Fetterman has made a point of taking aim at Oz’s decision to run for Senate in Pennsylvania after living in New Jersey for many years.

The White House said the president "will not nominate" Kentucky lawyer Chad Meredith.

The former White House official has pleaded not guilty to two counts of criminal contempt of Congress.

A Colorado judge on Friday quashed an arrest warrant for indicted Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, a leading election denier who lost last month’s Republican primary for secretary of state, after she allegedly violated the terms of her bond.

U.S. health officials say more than 100,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine are on the way to states in the next few days.

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, an ally of former President Donald Trump, testified behind closed doors before the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, for nearly eight hours on Friday.

Mehmet Oz, best known as "Dr. Oz," left behind a successful TV show to run for Senate as a Republican in Pennsylvania. Here's what to know about Oz.

Clampdown on activists, independent media and rights groups has intensified since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.

No cars were hit when the plane landed on a highway in the suburbs of Kansas City Friday morning after running out of fuel.

Armie Hammer is allegedly working at a Cayman Islands resort selling timeshares because he is "totally broke," Variety reported. The news has not been confirmed by Hammer himself.

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday said it has launched a civil rights investigation into whether the Maryland State Police engages in racially discriminatory hiring and promotion practices.

Obsolete coal plants across the country are getting a welcome revival: A second life as solar farms and other renewable energy ventures. Because these former fossil fuel hubs are wired into t…

The U.S. has tallied at least 1,470 cases in the monkeypox outbreak so far.

Co-ed sex ed classes prompt protests in Virginia, as the Fairfax County School Board received recommendations to combine genders in classes.

Jim Thorpe, the winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm before he was stripped more than a century ago, was reinstated as the gold medalist Friday.

Sri Lanka's parliament accepted the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Friday after he fled the country, paving the way for lawmakers to start repairing the island's shattered politics and resume efforts to ease its economic crisis.

Liza was one of three children killed in the attack on Vinnytsia, far from the front line.

"He basically said that he was not personally responsible for it. I indicated that I thought he was," Biden said.

Republican lawmakers published a letter to President Biden on Thursday urging his administration to waive international import duties on fertilizer. “We request that you invoke your authority to wa…

Brittney Griner’s attorney presented new evidence in court on the fourth day of her trial in Russia, where the WNBA star has been detained for nearly five months.

A number of lawmakers voted against their parties Friday on two bills to protect abortion access, which the House passed exactly three weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. The lowe…

While the president has worked to improve relations between the U.S. and Palestinian leaders, he's been slow to reverse other measures put in place by Trump.

The economy loomed large as the five contenders took part in the contest's first live TV debate.

Crime rates are high in GOP-led states, too, but conservative lawmakers focus the blame on liberal cities and progressive policies.

Lawyers defending U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner told a Russian court on Friday she was prescribed medical cannabis in the United States for a chronic injury, a Reuters journalist at the courtroom reported.

The Washington Post’s publisher blasted President Biden for greeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump Friday, saying it not only “projected intimacy and comfort&#…

Todd Rokita suggested the doctor may have violated a state law requiring doctors to report such incidents, but records show she complied with those requirements.

The lawyer for an Indiana doctor who has found herself at the center of a political firestorm after speaking out about a 10-year-old child abuse victim who traveled from Ohio for an abortion says her client provided proper treatment.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week said that it would be “unconstitutional” to restrict travel for abortions, suggesting that not all Republicans agree with curbing at least some of the efforts…

Manchin’s position leaves Democratic leaders with a grueling choice: They can either drop the package or pass the provisions he supports.

The death of Donald Trump's first wife is ruled accidental amid reports that she fell down stairs.

One of Ukraine’s leading medical experts on developing prosthetic limbs for amputees says there has been a dramatic surge in demand for artificial arms and legs.

Tirany Savage, her son and her mother were found fatally shot Sunday, as was the shooter, Bo Savage, according to the Roscommon County Sheriff's Office in Michigan.

The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is launching its new three-digit number, 988, on Saturday amid concerns over state-level funding and staffing for the system.

President Biden traveled to Saudi Arabia on Friday to meet with officials from the desert kingdom — which holds the world’s largest oil reserves — and is expected to meet with leaders from five other oil-producing Persian Gulf nations on Saturday.

British man Paul Urey, captured by Russian-backed separatists, has died in detention, reports say.

The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously threatened targeted sanctions against criminal gangs and human rights abusers in Haiti and called on countries to stop a flow of guns to the strife-torn Caribbean country.

Testimony from January 6 witnesses and court documents paints an instructive picture.

The abortion bans taking effect after the nation’s highest court overturned Roe v. Wade vary greatly in how they define when a pregnancy can be ended.

The FDA said that 96 hospitalizations and 277 illnesses have been reported by people who ate the company's frozen French Lentil & Leek Crumbles.

A security council resolution also imposes sanctions against gang leaders.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk fired back Friday at Twitter’s lawsuit seeking to force him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the platform, according to multiple news reports. In …

Ivana Trump, an ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, died of “blunt impact injuries” to the torso, New York City’s medical examiner said Friday.

MBS was directly implicated in Khashoggi's killing in a declassified intelligence report released by the Biden administration last year.

Residents and visitors flee towns and villages in France, Spain and Greece as high winds fan fires.

Ivanka Trump is offering a tribute to her mom, saying she’ll miss Ivana Trump “forever.” Former President Trump announced Thursday that his first wife had died at 73 in New York. The Trumps had thr…

Mexico's Navy said a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in the coastal city of Los Mochis, but said it's not fully clear what happened.

Peru’s Congress on Friday voted to host the Organization of American States (OAS) General Assembly, after outrage over the legislature’s initial decision not to approve the summit because of requirements to provide gender neutral bathrooms.

In certain cases, abortions are life-saving care. But determining what constitutes imminent death to the mother or the fetus remains vague.

Former Vice President Mike Pence will give a speech to the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation later this month, one day before former President Trump returns to Washington, D.C., for t…

The release this week of 82 minutes of school surveillance video from the May massacre in Uvalde, Texas, is fueling scrutiny over what, if any, consequences officers might face for their decision to retreat from gunfire and wait an hour to confront the shooter inside the school where he killed...

“My guns are bigger than your security’s guns!” Circuit Court Judge David Hummel Jr. is alleged to have said after taking out his Colt handgun and pointing it towards the defense team.

The employer for the Indiana doctor who provided abortion services to a 10-year-old rape victim pushed back against accusations that she had violated privacy laws, saying it had found no evidence o…

Twitter and the Washington Post slammed President Biden for greeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with a fist bump.

It wasn't the first time Flagler County Commission Chair Joe Mullins name-dropped himself after being pulled over for allegedly speeding.

A report highlights elevated risk of blackouts across the western U.S. Energy sector stakeholders are exploring solutions in demand, supply and policy arenas.

Democrat John Fetterman has taken shots at Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz for his ties to New Jersey; they are both running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.

The U.S. has recorded 1,470 monkeypox cases, up from 45 cases on June 10.

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Brent crude climbed above $101 Friday as Bloomberg reported Biden won't have an update on energy production after his visit to the Middle East.

Israeli fighter jets struck Gaza following rocket launches from the Palestinian territory on Saturday, hours after U.S. President Joe Biden flew from Israel to Saudi Arabia on a Middle East trip aimed at deepening Israel's integration into the region.

There was talk of recalling Gascón as soon as he was sworn in. And those calls were coming from inside the Hall of Justice, where many of his deputy district attorneys revolted against the changes.

Peruvian lawmakers on Friday opened the door for the Andean nation to restore its traditional bicameral legislature after three decades operating with a unicameral Congress, although the measure still needs to be approved through a referendum.

Hatice Cengiz was outside the Saudi consulate while Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered. Biden is expected to sit down with the man blamed for the killing.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was interviewed by ABC News' Phil Lipof, and spoke about the latest COVID-19 variant, the spread of monkeypox in the U.S. and the need for masks.

About 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against diseases like diptheria, tetanus and pertussis.

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases reported worldwide rose for the fifth week in a row.

Federal officials are also considering widening second booster eligibility to include all adults, according to White House officials.

Everyone in Britain who is 50 or over will be offered a fourth dose of coronavirus vaccine in the fall, lowering the age threshold from the previously announced 65.

With the spread of the BA.5 variant and immunity waning, experts discuss with ABC News how likely it is to be reinfected with COVID-19.

The mayor of Poland's capital, Warsaw, says he has COVID-19. Again. The mayor says the virus seems to be even more contagious and vicious than before and appealed to the Poles not to ignore the potential danger.

Media outlets such as CNN, CBS and ABC are urging Americans to take back up coronavirus prevention measures such as masking in the wake of a new variant.