Jan 14 2019 — ABC News — Only one American was a firsthand witness to President Donald Trump’s summit last summer with Russian President Vladimir Putin: veteran State Department translator Marina Gross. Gross’ job is to blend into the background and seamlessly help two leaders communicate. But now there is mounting interest in seeing Gross step into the spotlight, as Democrats on […]
Jan 8 2019 — ABC News — President Donald Trump is holding court front and center tonight to deliver remarks from the Oval Office in the hopes of convincing the American public and skeptical lawmakers that there is a crisis at the southern border. His goal: to secure billions of dollars in funds to build his promised “big, beautiful” wall amid a […]
Dec 24 2018 — ABC News — The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded sharply lower Monday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin shocked investors worldwide over the weekend by tweeting that he had spoken to the CEOs of the six largest U.S. banks to ensure they were liquid.
Dec 19 2018 — ABC News — President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria has drawn the ire of one of his usual allies: Lindsey Graham.
Dec 16 2018 — ABC News — Family members of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl who died in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody after reaching the U.S.-Mexico border said she did not lack food or water and was in good health when she was detained.
Dec 16 2018 — ABC News — “Saturday Night Live” took us to a world without Donald Trump as president in a send-up of the classic Christmas film “It’s a Wonderful Life.” The show started with the classic black-and-white open and Trump on the balcony of the White House. “I don’t think I can do this anymore,” Alec Baldwin, making another cameo […]
Dec 14 2018 — ABC News — Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to arrange hush-money payments with two women because then-candidate Trump “was very concerned about how this would affect the election” if their allegations of affairs became public, the president’s former personal attorney said in an exclusive interview with ABC News. Cohen’s comments are his first since being sentenced earlier this […]
Dec 10 2018 — ABC News — Maria Butina, a 30-year-old Russian gun rights activist who stands accused developing a covert influence operation in the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy and cooperate with federal, state and local authorities in any ongoing investigations.
Dec 7 2018 — ABC News — Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shared some candid thoughts about President Donald Trump and his time in the administration in a rare interview, taking some of his sharpest swipes at his former boss since he was fired in March.
Dec 4 2018 — ABC News — Following a briefing to senators by CIA director Gina Haspel Tuesday on the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi leading Republicans came told reporters that there was “zero question” that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the brutal murder.
Nov 26 2018 — ABC News — President Donald Trump’s reluctance to hold Saudi leadership accountable for the brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi stemmed from a partly aspirational $110 billion arms deal between the U.S. and Saudia Arabia that was inflated at the direction of Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, according to two U.S. officials and three former White […]
Nov 21 2018 — ABC News — Last year, before joining the Justice Department and taking a government salary, now-Acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker made nearly a million dollars in salary while leading a tax-exempt organization that allegedly advocated right-wing positions. The disclosure comes in financial reports the Justice Department sent to congressional committees late Tuesday afternoon – after DOJ revised the […]
Nov 19 2018 — ABC News — Multiple people, including a police officer, have been injured in a shooting near a Chicago hospital, according to police.
Nov 16 2018 — ABC News — Search crews found seven more bodies in the burned out rubble of Paradise, California, on Thursday, and officials fear more deaths in the destructive blazes at both ends of the state that have now claimed 66 lives. The deadliest and most destructive of the two wildfires is the Camp Fire in Northern California’s Butte County, […]
Nov 13 2018 — ABC News — President Donald Trump placed full blame for his canceled visit to a World War I cemetery in France over the weekend on the Secret Service, claiming that he suggested driving after it was deemed unsafe to take the presidential chopper during rainy weather but that the Secret Service said “NO.”