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(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland visited Chicago Wednesday to highlight decreases in violent crime around the country, and announced a surge of investments and resources that he said will be aimed at "doubling down" on recent progress by law enforcement and their local partners."These declines are not just abstract…

(WASHINGTON) -- Despite what Donald Trump said at a Michigan event on Tuesday, the family of homicide victim Ruby Garcia told ABC News that the former president has not spoken to them."I can confirm and assure you he did not speak with me or my immediate family," Mavi Garcia, Ruby Garcia's…

(WASHINGTON) -- Special counsel Jack Smith, responding on Tuesday to the judge overseeing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, urged her to reverse course on entertaining the idea that Trump had any personal ownership over the classified materials he has been charged with unlawfully possessing.In a late-night filing replying…

(WASHINGTON) -- Four more states are voting on Tuesday in the 2024 presidential primary race.The contests are taking place in Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island and Wisconsin. (Delaware’s primaries were canceled due to being uncontested.)The results, however, won't affect the overall election as President Joe Biden and former President Donald…

(WASHINGTON) -- Tuesday was primary day in Wisconsin.ABC News reports that President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are projected to win the Democratic and Republican races, respectively.Biden and Trump were the only major remaining candidates running and both of them have already clinched their parties' 2024 nominations.However, the…

(WASHINGTON) -- Tuesday was primary day in New York, where former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden were the front-runners, having already clinched their respective parties' 2024 nominations last month.ABC News reports that Biden and Trump are projected to win the Democratic and Republican races.Ninety-one delegates were up for…

(WASHINGTON) -- Tuesday was primary day in Connecticut, where former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden were the only major remaining candidates running -- and already the presumptive 2024 nominees for their respective parties.ABC News reports that Biden and Trump are projected to win the Democratic and Republican races.Twenty-eight…

(WASHINGTON) -- Rhode Island's presidential primary was Tuesday and President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump were the only major remaining candidates, having clinched their parties' nominations last month.ABC News reports that Biden and Trump are projected to win the Democratic and Republican races.There were 19 Republican delegates up…

(WASHINGTON) -- Tuesday was expected to be presidential primary day in Delaware, where former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are the front-runners, having already clinched their respective parties' 2024 nominations last month.However, the Delaware Department of Elections announced in March that the state's Republican presidential primary would be…

(WASHINGTON) -- As President Joe Biden ramps up an aggressive reelection campaign schedule -- while still facing mediocre early polling and poor approval ratings -- he is targeting swing states, fundraising and attacking former President Donald Trump in mocking jabs that mimic some of his rival's own language.In the initial…