(NEW YORK) -- On Monday's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, comedian Jon Stewart fired back at Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after McConnell said Stewart was 'bent out of shape" over wanting Congress to move faster on taking care of 9/11 first responders with health problems.Stewart drew national attention…... Read More

(NEW YORK) -- President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been spared from an expected transfer to Rikers Island prison in New York following a rare intervention by the Department of Justice, a DOJ official confirmed to ABC News.Trump has previously complained about how Manafort was being treated…... Read More

(WASHINGTON) -- Despite missing the cutoff for the first Democratic debate scheduled for later this month, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock might get a shot at the second round of debates in July, the Democratic National Committee confirmed Tuesday.An Iowa poll conducted by CBS News and YouGov qualified the governor for…... Read More

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter late Monday night that Immigration and Customs Enforcement next week would begin "removing the millions of illegal aliens" from the U.S. "as fast as they come in." A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told ABC News that the deportations described…... Read More

(ORLANDO, Fla.) -- President Donald Trump kicks off his 2020 reelection bid in Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday, launching a campaign that's never really ended. In promoting Tuesday's festivities at and around the Amway Center, aides indicated that the president's campaign has never really stopped. They told ABC News that this…... Read More

(WASHINGTON) -- In an exclusive interview with ABC News, President Donald Trump declared he would be announcing a “phenomenal” new health care plan within the next two months, and said health care would be a priority leading up to his 2020 re-election campaign."We almost had health care done. Health care's…... Read More

(WASHINGTON) -- A survivor of the deadly Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting revealed on Monday that Harvard College rescinded its admissions offer as a result of alleged racist comments he made months before the 2018 shooting massacre.Kyle Kashuv, 18, disclosed the news on Twitter, claiming the school rescinded its…... Read More

(WASHINGTON) -- ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos embedded with President Donald Trump for a wide-ranging exclusive interview over the course of two days this week, generating a bevy of newsy headlines over the course of their unprecedented discussion.Here are the top five moments from the interview.Trump says he’d listen…... Read More

(WASHINGTON) -- A narrowly-divided Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal from Virginia’s Republican-controlled House of Delegates which sought to reinstate the state’s legislative districts map after it was struck down for improper racial gerrymandering.A lower court held that 11 state legislative districts represented unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. The state attorney…... Read More

(WASHINGTON) -- President Donald Trump and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have been engaged in a Twitter battle since her appearance Sunday on ABC's This Week, trading barbs over impeachment after her comment that Democrats have a "very real risk of losing" in 2020 without a 'transformational candidate."Ocasio-Cortez cautioned against electing a…... Read More