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Pelosi calls for ‘balance’ between free speech and safety after Buffalo shooting

Sunday, May 15 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that social media companies have to address and track down extremism on their platforms, after a gunman who reportedly espoused white supremacist ideology opened fire at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket on Saturday, killing at... Read More.

Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests planned Saturday in response to SCOTUS leak

Saturday, May 14 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests are planned nationwide Saturday in the wake of a bombshell leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that indicated the court's conservative majority could soon overturn Roe v. Wade. Women's March and Planned Parenthood are among the organizations... Read More.

Biden defends response to baby formula shortage as complaints grow, probes planned

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden on Friday defended his administration’s response to an ongoing baby formula shortage that has triggered public outcry from parents, lawmakers and drawn Republican fire. "There's nothing more urgent we're working on than that right now, and I think we’re going to... Read More.

Jen Psaki’s emotional farewell as White House press secretary

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki delivered an emotional farewell from the briefing room podium Friday afternoon -- expressing thanks to President Joe Biden, her administration colleagues and even the White House press corps. Looking back at the last 15 months and 244... Read More.

GOP-led states, Biden administration argue over lifting Title 42 border policy on May 23

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Department lawyers and attorneys representing a coalition of GOP-led states were in court on Friday to again trade jabs about whether the Biden administration can lift pandemic-based restrictions at the southern border known as the Title 42 order. Judge Robert R. Summerhays, a... Read More.

White House clambers for fixes to baby formula shortage as dismay mounts, probes planned

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The ongoing baby formula shortage — with nearly half of products recently unavailable, according to experts — triggered a flurry of responses from Washington this week as the Biden administration and Congress sought to address the public outcry. "There's nothing more urgent we're working... Read More.

House Democrats call on Supreme Court to defend abortion access

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- House Democrats, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol facing the Supreme Court on Friday, calling on the justices to defend access to abortion on the eve of abortion rights protests in Washington and nationwide. It comes after... Read More.

Homeland Security announces $1.6B in local grants for election security, to combat extremism

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, then-top Department of Homeland Security official Alejandro Mayorkas saw a picture of a Federal Emergency Management Agency analysis as part of the investigation — and realized the equipment used, to illustrate what happened on the... Read More.

Justice Department opens grand jury probe into Trump’s handling of documents

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- The Department of Justice has opened a grand jury investigation related to former President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, following the revelation in February that he had brought boxes of documents home to his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left the... Read More.

Biden to announce $10 billion from American Rescue Plan for policing, public safety

Friday, May 13 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will announce Friday that $10 billion from the American Rescue Plan has been committed to police departments and public safety across the U.S. "A very big amount of what we're talking about today is the fact that state and local... Read More.

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Pelosi calls for ‘balance’ between free speech and safety after Buffalo shooting

Hundreds of pro-abortion rights protests planned Saturday in response to SCOTUS leak

Biden defends response to baby formula shortage as complaints grow, probes planned

Jen Psaki’s emotional farewell as White House press secretary

GOP-led states, Biden administration argue over lifting Title 42 border policy on May 23

White House clambers for fixes to baby formula shortage as dismay mounts, probes planned

House Democrats call on Supreme Court to defend abortion access

Homeland Security announces $1.6B in local grants for election security, to combat extremism

Justice Department opens grand jury probe into Trump’s handling of documents

Biden to announce $10 billion from American Rescue Plan for policing, public safety

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