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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge's order to lift all age limits on ...
WASHINGTON (By AARON KATERSKY, STEVEN PORTNOY, DANA HUGHES and LEE FERRAN/ABC News) -- The FBI has released new images of thr...
BOSTON (By KIRIT RADIA, BRIAN ROSS, PIERRE THOMAS and RHONDA SCHWARTZ/ABC News) --Accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsa...
By COLLEEN CURRYApril 23, 2013Paul Kevin Curtis, suspected of sending ricin tainted letters to President Obama and other publ...
NEW YORK (AP) — For about an hour Wednesday afternoon, people could flip through different television channels and hear...
By COLLEEN CURRYApril 15, 2013Three explosions erupted at the famed Boston Marathon today, killing two people, injuring dozen...
WASHINGTON, DC (ABC News) -- When news began to emerge from the White House Friday that President Obama’s budget next w...
CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Prosecutors on Monday said they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in last ye...
MARY BRUCE and JONATHAN KARLTEL AVIV, Israel (ABC NEWS) -- Arriving here this morning for his first presidential visit to Isr...
By JORDAN FABIAN (ABC NEWS) -- Sen. Marco Rubio recently slammed Americans who visit Cuba, including some of his Senate colle...
WASHINGTON, DC (ABC NEWS) -- Senator Rand Paul’s nearly thirteen hour filibuster may have started a conversation about ...
By DEVIN DWYER, MARY BRUCE, SUNLEN MILLER and JOHN PARKINSONWASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2013WASHINGTON, DC (ABC NEWS) -- The budget ...
WASHINGTON, DC (ABC News) -- House Speaker John Boehner used some choice words to pressure Senate Democrats to avert the loom...
By GLORIA RIVIERA and AKIKO FUJITA (ABC NEWS) -- North Korea says it has successfully tested a miniaturized nuclear device Tu...
By ARLETTE SAENZ (ABC NEWS)Jan. 30, 2013WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It's a showdown on guns, featuring two powerful but conflicti...
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Two senators at the center of negotiations over comprehensive immigration reform, Sen. John McCain, R-A...
By Arlette Saenz/ABC NEWS -- With an AR-15 and nine other guns on her left, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced a bil...
By John Parkinson (ABC NEWS) -- Seventy-nine days after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Northeast, the House of Representati...
By Matthew Larotonda (ABC NEWS) -- President Obamadivulgedtoday that the U.S. military played a role in a failed attempt by F...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — If there's any soul-searching among top television executives about onscreen violence contr...
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — If there's any soul-searching among top television executives about onscreen violence contr...
By CHRIS GOODWASHINGTON, DC (ABC NEWS) -- Partly out of dissatisfaction with the National Rifle Association, a D.C.-based med...
By ARLETTE SAENZ (ABC NEWS) -- The National Rifle Association blasted Vice President Joe Biden after a meeting Thursday after...
By ARLETTE SAENZ/(ABC News) -- Vice President Biden, meeting today with outside groups on gun safety, told reporters he has a...
President Obama today will name his current chief of staff, Jack Lew, to serve as the nation’s next treasury secretary,...
WASHINGTON, DC (ABC News) -- The pushback against Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s new nominee for secretary of Defense, ...
By DEVIN DWYER and JONATHAN KARL (ABC NEWS) -- Two weeks before his inauguration, and with more "fiscal cliffs" on ...
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. R-Ky., Sunday said he will not accept any new revenue in future deals with congress...
By DEVIN DWYER, JOHN PARKINSON and SUNLEN MILLER/ABC NEWS -- The Republican-dominated House of Representatives has approved a...
By JON KARL, SUNLEN MILLER, JOHN PARKINSON and MATTHEW LAROTONDA/ABC NEWSDec. 28, 2012Washington brinkmanship appears to have...
from ABC NewsTen days remain before the mandatory spending cuts and tax increases known as the “fiscal cliff” tak...
By COLLEEN CURRY and SARAH PARNASS / ABC NEWSThe National Rifle Association stood its ground today in arguing that the answer...
By JONATHAN KARL, MARY BRUCE and Z. BYRON WOLF / ABC NEWS(WASHINGTON) -- President Obama will today nominate Sen. John Kerry ...
The defeat of his Plan B — Republicans pulled it when it became clear it would be voted down — is a big defeat fo...
By KEVIN DOLAK / ABC NEWSDec. 21, 2012Incessant rain and a dreary morning failed to keep onlookers away from a moment-of-sile...
By Colleen Curry ABC NEWSDec 18, 2012 5:20pmThe National Rifle Association has broken its silence on the mass school shooting...
By AARON KATERSKY, EMILY FRIEDMAN, JUJU CHANG and ALYSSA NEWCOMB/ABC NEWSDec. 16, 2012Members of the shattered community of N...
By ALYSSA NEWCOMB/ABC NEWSPresident Obama will visit Newtown, Conn. today to meet with the grieving families and thank the fi...
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CANDACE SMITH, MATTHEW MOSK and CHRISTINA NG / ABC NEWSThe FBI is in at least three states interviewing ...
Twenty children died today when a heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and sprayed staff and student...
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CANDACE SMITH and CHRISTINA NG / ABC NEWSDec. 14, 2012Twenty childlren died today when a heavily armed m...
By RICHARD ESPOSITO, CANDACE SMITH and CHRISTINA NG / ABC NEWSA heavily armed man invaded a Newtown, Conn., elementary school...
By Sarah Parnass/ABC NEWSTexas is waiting for President Obama’s reaction to a petition demanding it be allowed to seced...
By Elizabeth Hartfield/ABC NEWSAnother week comes to a close with seemingly little progress in the on-going “fiscal cli...
By ARLETTE SAENZ and MICHAEL FALCONE/ABC NEWSDec. 5, 2012WASHINGTON -- Hardly a month has passed since the end of presidentia...
By DEVIN DWYER, JOHN PARKINSON and SUNLEN MILLER/ABC NEWSNov. 27, 2012'Tis the season for spreading holiday cheer and, th...
from ABC NewsThe two-party tango that is negotiations over the "fiscal cliff" took a turn Monday as two more Republ...
from ABC NewsUN Ambassador Susan Rice will be on Capitol Hill this week to meet with individual members of Congress to discus...
The head of the government’s financial sector watchdog is stepping down.Mary Schapiro, who chairs the Securities and Ex...
By MICHAEL FALCONE/ABC NEWSNov. 17, 2012Republicans are over it.And most of them aren't doing much mourning for Mitt Romn...
By Elizabeth Hartfield and Sunlen Miller/ABC NEWSNov 14, 2012President Obama was visibly angry today after Sens. John McCain ...
from ABC NewsDespite a devastating loss last week, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan rejected Democratic claims ...
By ANTHONY CASTELLANO and LUIS MARTINEZ/ABC NEWSNov. 13, 2012Gen. John Allen, commander of the International Security Assista...
from ABC NewsIt isn't taking long for memories of the 2012 election to fade as Washington now fixates on both a scandal a...
from ABC NewsGeneral John Allen, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, is under investigat...
By LUIS MARTINEZ, Z. BYRON WOLF and MARTHA RADDATZ/ABC NEWSNov. 9, 2012CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned his position,...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama's victory Tuesday means he will pivot almost immediately to shoring up the team of top aides...
from ABC NewsA day after holding onto his speakership and the House Republican majority, John Boehner signaled openness today...
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN/ABC NEWSNov. 7, 2012The last ballots are being counted here in Florida, but a re-elected President Obama i...
By JOHN PARKINSON/ABC NEWSWASHINGTON, Nov 6, 2012House Speaker John Boehner and his Republican colleagues will secure enough ...
from ABC NewsThere are 435 seats in the House of Representatives, and here is a look at 25 of the top match-ups worth watchin...
from ABC NewsElizabeth Warren (D) vs. Sen. Scott Brown (R)MASSACHUSETTSThis contest is the most expensive Senate race so far ...
By ANTHONY CASTELLANO/ABC NEWSNov. 1, 2012The Northeast struggled to get back on its feet today following the wallop it took ...
By ABBY D. PHILLIP/ABC NEWSNov. 1, 2012The political détente declared during superstorm Sandy is over as President Oba...
from ABC NewsNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has earned high marks for his handling of the unprecedented disaster his state ha...
from ABC NewsIt blasted the ocean itself over dunes, seawalls and berms and into downtowns, tunnels and subways. It killed do...
By ARIANE DEVOGUE and LAUREN PEARLE/ABC NEWSOctober 30, 2012Superstorm Sandy has given rise to suspensions in campaigning by ...
By CHRISTINA NG and ALYSSA NEWCOMB/ABC NEWSAs millions have been left reeling from the force and destruction of superstorm Sa...
ABC News’ Michael Falcone reports:With exactly one week to go before Election Day, the Romney and Obama campaigns are b...
By CHRISTINA NG and ALYSSA NEWCOMB/ABC NEWSThe wrath of superstorm Sandy killed at least 33 people in seven states and left m...
from ABC NewsFerocious superstorm Sandy barrelled into the East Coast this evening, driving a record storm surge that flooded...
By CHRISTINA NG/ABC NEWSA surging Hurricane Sandy rushed towards the East Coast, and has strengthened today before expected l...
The 12-year-old daughter of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was in fair condition Saturday evening at Miami Children's Hospital ...
from ABC NewsThe most memorable line of Monday night’s debate was President Obama’s pointed “horses and bay...
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN (@GoldmanRussell)Oct. 22, 2012President Obama was on the offensive during the third and final presidential...
By ABC NEWS/ABBY D. PHILLIPPresident Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, in the third presidential debate, face ...
from ABC NewsOutside of a Bass Pro Shop on his first campaign swing in western Iowa, Republican vice presidential candidate P...
from ABC NewsThere are 15 days and one presidential debate between President Obama and Mitt Romney and the general election.W...
By ABC NEWS/RICHARD ESPOSITOOct. 18, 2012Law enforcement sources said today that no evidence has emerged suggesting the man a...
OCALA -- Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan spoke before an enthusiastic crowd in the Downtown Square, touting pl...
GOP Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan will appear in Ocala on the Downtown Square today. The campaign event will start af...
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN/ABC NEWSCircling each other like boxers at times and looking one another in the eye, President Obama and M...
from ABC NewsPartisan Democrats had a lot to be happy about last night’s vice presidential debate. Vice President Joe B...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama says the “fundamentals” of the 2012 presidential race remain unchanged following a w...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney plans to deliver a foreign policy speech today in which he will try to reverse some of his perceived...
It was billed as "O'Reilly vs. Stewart 2012: The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium", a debate between po...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney came out swinging in the first presidential debate, challenging President Obama over his health care...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama and Mitt Romney are going camping. With less than 72 hours to go until Wednesday night's deb...
from ABC NewsNew Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, never one to be shy when it comes to speaking his mind, today predicted that Mit...
By RUSSELL GOLDMANSept. 27, 2012The world must immediately draw a clear "red line" to prevent Iran from completing ...
from ABC NewsThe NFL and the NFL Referees Association reached a tentative agreement ending a three-month lockout.The deal was...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney today accused President Obama of “trying to fool” voters into thinking Romney believes i...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney sought to repair the damage from his "47 percent" remarks, saying here today he is concern...
By ABC NEWS/LEE FERRAN and CINDY GALLISept. 14, 2012The U.S. government got a step closer to punishing those who lie about mi...
BY ABC NEWS/ANTHONY CASTELLANO and KEVIN DOLAKSept. 14, 2012The U.S. embassy in Tunisia was enveloped in a cloud of black smo...
from ABC NewsOutrage over the anti-Muslim film "Innocence of Muslims" has spread across the Middle East as proteste...
from ABC NewsAl Qaeda has released a new video of American hostage Warren Weinstein delivering a personal message to Israeli ...
By ABC NEWS/KEVIN DOLAK, DEAN SCHABNER, ENJOLI FRANCIS and ANTHONY CASTELLANOSept. 12, 2012U.S. ambassador to Libya Christoph...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney raised some eyebrows today when he said, "I'm not getting rid of all of healthcare reform.&...
from ABC NewsMoments after convention chairman Antonio Villaraigosa gaveled in day two of the Democratic Convention, the hall...
from ABC NewsThe chairman of the California delegation to the Democrats’ convention was criticized by both parties for ...
from ABC NewsInthe climax to the Republican National Convention, Mitt Romney accepted his party's presidential nomination...
from ABC NewsTropical storm Isaac is on the verge of becoming a Category 1 hurricane before it makes landfall, but forecaster...
from ABC NewsCalifornia evangelist Rick Warren, senior pastor to more than 20,000 at his Saddleback Church, has ditched plans...
Hurricane hunter aircraft reports that Tropical Storm Isaac is a little stronger. Maximum sustained winds are up to near 50 m...
from ABC NewsDemocrats todayunveiled a list of 10 new activists and politicians – all women – scheduled to speak ...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney will reveal new energy policy today that will hinge on states, and not the federal government, being...
from ABC NewsPressure mounted on Rep. Todd Akin to quit his Missouri Senate race today despite his repeated refusals to step ...
from ABC NewsWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared today for the first time since he took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embass...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney took another crack at resetting the Medicare debate today, calling an impromptu press conference on ...
from ABC NewsThe CEO and founder of Papa John's pizza wants investors to know that when the president's health care l...
from ABC NewsTrailing rival Mitt Romney in a new Colorado poll, President Obama today kicked off a two-day swing through the ...
from ABC NewsI’m rubber, you’re glue. Welcome to the 2012 presidential campaign, aka ‘Romney Hood‘ vs...
By ABC NEWS/EMILY FRIEDMAN -- JERUSALEM July 29, 2012A top adviser to Mitt Romney said Sunday that the Republican presidentia...
from ABC NewsJust hours after the Senate voted to extend tax cuts for the middle class, President Obama accused House Republi...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney will display his foreign policy prowess this week when he embarks on the first foreign trip of his c...
By ABC NEWS/ANTHONY CASTELLANO and RUSSELL GOLDMAN (@GoldmanRussell)July 23, 2012Prosecutors are considering pursuing a death...
By ABC News/CLAYTON SANDELL, KEVIN DOLAK, and COLLEEN CURRYAURORA, Colo. July 20, 2012Twelve people were killed and 59 were i...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama warned a Florida rally today against what he predicted would be a flood of negative ads from Rep...
Joe Raedle/Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- President Obama may get no more than a gentleman’s C for the ...
from ABC NewsThe Republican governor of Texas today welcomed President Obama to the Lone Star State by asking him to distance...
from ABC NewsRepublicans continue to call on President Obama and his campaign to give an apology for questioning Mitt Romney&...
By Jon GarciaJul 14, 2012 3:26pmObama Campaign spokesperson Jen Psaki today defended using rhetoric that includes words like ...
from ABC NewsThe Drudge Report, the conservative website,reports Thursday night that there is a new frontrunner to be Mitt Ro...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney said after being booed at the NAACP today that he "expected" the strong objection in respo...
from ABC NewsAfter months of casting himself as a warrior president battling a stubborn Congress, President Obama is claiming...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney steered his campaign message back in line with other top Republicans today, insisting that the healt...
President Obama is focusing on boosting voter turnout in Florida's university towns, Hispanic enclaves like the Puero Ric...
By ABC News/MATT NEGRIN (@MattNegrin) AND ARIANE DE VOGUE (@Arianedevogue)June 28, 2012In a landmark ruling with wide-ranging...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama today demanded lawmakers act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling on July 1,...
from ABC NewsIn less than two weeks, the Supreme Court will hand down its decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Pr...
ABC/ Ida Mae Astute(CORNWALL, Pa.) — Pennsylvania Republicans Marty and Ciri Daigle didn’t get the candidate they...
from ABC NewsAmid the bustle of President Obama’s surprise stop for barbecue Wednesday the White House apparently overl...
from ABC NewsFormer Florida Gov. Jeb Bush today said that both Ronald Reagan and his father, George H.W. Bush, would have a h...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney will head out on a five-day bus tour of six key battleground states on Friday, his first major campa...
By MATTHEW JAFFE (@matthewbjaffe) , Elizabeth Hartfield (@LizHartfield) and Z. BYRON WOLF (@zbyronwolf)MILWAUKEE, June 5, 201...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney has clinched the Republican presidential nomination.The Associated Press has projected he has won th...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney’s victories tonight in Arkansas and Kentucky may have been foregone conclusions, but besides t...
from ABC NewsAfghan President Hamid Karzai thanked the United States today for shouldering much of the cost for the decade-ol...
from ABC NewsWhat began as the resurrection of one of the most animated characters in the 2008 campaign on Thursday ended wit...
from ABC NewsForty-two years after his selfless act of heroism during the Vietnam war saved the lives of his fellow soldiers,...
from ABC NewsA New York Times/CBS News poll released Monday night shows the possible political perils of President Obama'...
from ABC NewsJust days after affirming his support for same-sex marriage, President Obama today declined to say whether he wo...
from ABC NewsWith the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death looming, American and European authorities told ABC News tod...
from ABC NewsAnalysisWho needs to be cool when all your friends are?Welcome to the tryout stage of the veepstakes race. Monda...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney took the reins of the Republican Party here tonight, vowing to put an “end to the disappointme...
from ABC NewsSecret Service officials planning a wild night of fun in Colombia did some of their own advanced work last week,...
from ABC NewsPresident Obama strongly disagreed with Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s controversial comment about A...
from ABC NewsNorth Korea state media acknowledged that the long-range test rocket that the country launched in defiance of U....
from ABC NewsSEOUL, South Korea — At the tail end of his 90 minute meeting with Russian President Dmitri Medvedev Monda...
from ABC NewsNumber of Supreme Court Justices: 9.Hours of oral arguments planned: 6.Full impact the court's ruling could ...
from ABC NewsTwo years ago Friday, President Obama signed what has been called the most significant legislative achievement o...
from ABC NewsMitt Romney today regained some of his footing as the leader of the Republican race for the presidential nominat...
from ABC NewsAn Afghan government delegation visiting one of the sites where a U.S. soldier is suspected of shooting and kill...
from ABC NewsWith the price of gas becoming an increasingly critical issue on the campaign trail, President Obama admitted to...
By MUHAMMAD LILA and MARTHA RADDATZThe Taliban has vowed revenge against "sick-minded American savages" after a U.S...
from ABC NewsThe economy has added more jobs than expected in each of the past three months, pushing down the unemployment ra...
from ABC NewsFour years ago, Sen. John McCain used a slew of victories on Super Tuesday to all but clinch the Republican nomi...
For the first time since 2008 the Dow has ended the day above 13,000. CNBC reports stocks are rising on expectations that Pre...
from FOX NewsMitt Romney defended his economic policy on Sunday from criticisms on both the right and left, saying he is not ...
from CNNIn a whispering campaign not ready to go public, some senior Republicans are so anxious about the state of the GOP ra...
from FOX NewsBipartisan negotiators hammered out a tentative deal Tuesday to extend the payroll tax cut for the rest of the y...
From FOX NewsThe Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved the first new nuclear power project in more than three decades.Th...
From ABC NewsWhile the $25 billion foreclosure settlement announced on Thursday is a landmark multi-state deal, it is jus...
From Fox NewsDonald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, saying he's impressed by the Republican candidate&...
ByHUMA KHAN(@humaik)Jan. 31, 2012Mitt Romney will win the Florida Republican primary, ABC News projects, based on the exit po...
ByHUMA KHAN(@humaik)Jan. 31, 2012Mitt Romney will win the Florida Republican primary, ABC News projects, based on the exit po...
ByHUMA KHAN(@humaik)Jan. 31, 2012Mitt Romney will win the Florida Republican primary, ABC News projects, based on the exit po...
from FOX NewsAfter getting trounced in South Carolina being unwilling to face a similar outcome in Florida, Mitt Romney went ...
from ABCNewsNewt Gingrich will defeat Mitt Romney to win today's South Carolina primary, according to ABC News projections b...
from FOXNewsThe remaining four Republican presidential candidates pummeled each other Thursday at the final debate before th...
from CNNTune in Thursday at 8 p.m. ET for the CNN/Southern Republican Presidential Debate hosted by John King and follow it...
from Fox NewsPresident Obama announced Wednesday that he will deny a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, blaming Republican...
From ABCNewsSome Republican presidential candidates today turned their attacks on Rick Santorum’scongressional voting ...
from ABCNewsIt was a year of popular uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Syria, of devastation from drought and tsunami, and at ho...
from ABCNewsHouse Speaker John Boehner announced today that Republicans have decided to accept a short-term extension of the...
from ABCNewsWith just nine days before a payroll tax break for 160 million Americans expires, President Obama today will ste...
