Dec 15 Watch 2:23 News Wrap: Displaced Gazans struggle to escape fighting between Israel and Hamas In our news wrap Sunday, dozens of people were killed in Gaza as the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, Israel said it wants to double the population of Israeli settlers in the Golan Heights along the border with… Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch 6:03 Why Americans are stockpiling abortion medication ahead of Trump's second term By Ali Rogin, Kaisha Young Since Trump’s reelection, many women and health care providers across the U.S. have been stockpiling supplies of abortion pills and emergency contraception. One of the largest suppliers of abortion medication reported a 17-fold increase in requests the first 24 hours… Continue watching
Dec 14 ABC agrees to pay $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle defamation lawsuit By Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Continue reading
Dec 14 Trump attends Army-Navy football game with GOP allies, nominees and Daniel Penny By Noah Trister, Tara Copp, Aamer Madhani, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump was huddling with allies and a Republican cause célèbre at Saturday's Army-Navy football game, taking in one of the most storied rivalries in college sports while spotlighting his emerging national security team. Continue reading
Dec 13 Daniel Penny will join Trump's suite at football game after being acquitted in NYC chokehold case By Adriana Gomez Licon, Associated Press Vice President-elect JD Vance said Penny, a military veteran who choked an agitated New York subway rider and was acquitted of homicide this week, accepted his invitation to join Trump's suite at the Army-Navy football game on Saturday. Continue reading
Dec 13 IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes, braces for cuts under Trump and GOP majority By Fatima Hussein, Associated Press The collections included $1.3 billion from high-income taxpayers who did not pay overdue tax debts and $2.9 billion related to IRS Criminal Investigation work into crimes like drug trafficking and terrorist financing. Despite its gains, the future of the agency's… Continue reading
Dec 13 What another Trump administration could mean for crypto By Kenichi Serino Bitcoin surpassed $100,000 for the second time ever on Wednesday, after hitting the milestone the first time in early December, a surge fueled by optimism that the Trump administration would be more friendly to the cryptocurrency industry. Continue reading
Dec 13 No undercover FBI agents at Jan. 6 riot, watchdog finds in rebuke to conspiracy theories By Alanna Durkin Richer, Eric Tucker, Associated Press The report Thursday from the Justice Department inspector general’s office knocks down a fringe conspiracy theory advanced by some Republicans in Congress that the FBI played a role in instigating the events of Jan. 6, when rioters determined to overturn… Continue reading
Dec 13 Only 3 in 10 Americans highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military, AP-NORC poll says By Linley Sanders, Meg Kinnard, Associated Press Only about 3 in 10 are "extremely" or "very" confident that Trump will pick qualified people to serve in his administration. Continue reading
Dec 12 Watch 7:17 How Hegseth's controversial religious views could affect military leadership By Laura Barrón-López, Sam Lane President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has faced allegations of sexual misconduct, excessive drinking and financial mismanagement, all of which he denies. Laura Barrón-López and Brad Onishi discussed something else that’s drawn scrutiny, the influence of… Continue watching