Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- As President Joe Biden prepares to pass the baton to President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, it's unclear if Biden will follow the tradition of leaving his successor a note in the Oval Office.President Ronald Reagan...
(Jon Cherry/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who's nominated to become the next health secretary, asked the federal government to revoke its authorization of all COVID-19 vaccines in May 2021, just as vaccinated Americans began returning to a sense...
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Since launching in 2021, America First Policy Institute has been known colloquially around Washington, D.C., as Donald Trump's "cabinet in waiting" should the former president return to office. And now, as Trump's second...
John Moore/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Outgoing Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, who for four years has been a target for Republican criticism, said that national tragedies should not be used for "political disagreements.""There are people that lobby...
Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday announced his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, will replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate.Husted, 57, will serve until a special election in November 2026, the...
(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump said his inauguration will move indoors Monday and he'll be sworn in inside the Capitol Rotunda due to the freezing weather expected in Washington, D.C."The various Dignitaries and Guests will be brought into the Capitol,"...
Peter G. Forest/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Education Secretary Miguel Cardona signed off Friday as the nation's top education official -- calling it his "dream job.""To the students, families, educators, and education leaders I've served these last 4 years, I want to...
Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Friday said the Equal Right Amendment should be considered ratified, but is stopping short of taking any action on the matter in his final days in office."I have supported the Equal...
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security.Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota,...
Ton Molina/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday he spoke to China's President Xi Jinping about TikTok and other issues as he prepares to take office in a matter of days.Trump confirmed the call in a post on his social...
Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law set to ban social media platform TikTok in less than 48 hours."There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet...
Matthew Busch/Bloomberg via Getty Images,(WASHINGTON) -- The Democratic Mayors Association will appoint Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb as the organization's next president during its meeting on Saturday, a source familiar told ABC News.Representing the new coalition of...
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faces a grilling Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security.Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota,...
Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams is scheduled to meet with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, a spokesperson for the mayor said, marking his latest correspondence with the incoming administration as he also faces...
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In his farewell address, an emotional Attorney General Merrick Garland sought to encourage an embattled Department of Justice facing uncertainty and to unabashedly defend his tenure and their work."I know that you have...
ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris continued their farewell tour on Thursday, attending the Department of Defense Commander in Chief Farewell Ceremony, offering his thanks to U.S. troops for their...
Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The official portraits of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance were released Thursday by the Trump transition team."And they go hard," a press release from the transition said about the...
Antonin Utz/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration doesn't plan to take action that forces TikTok to immediately go dark for U.S. users on Sunday, an administration official told ABC News.TikTok could still proactively choose to shut itself down...
Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty Images(HELENA, Mont.) -- The Montana House of Representatives advanced a bill to ban transgender people from using public bathrooms that do not align with their sex assigned at birth, the first of this type of legislation to progress in the...
Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced on Thursday that he is replacing Marco Rubio in the Senate with the state's attorney general, Ashley Moody."This is a time for action and a time for Washington D.C....
