(WASHINGTON) -- Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer retired from the high court in 2022 but isn't finished prodding his former conservative colleagues to abandon what he sees as an aggressive tack to the right in how they interpret the law."Slow down. Period," Breyer, 85, said bluntly of his message…
(WASHINGTON) -- In a historic shift, the Drug Enforcement Administration supports recommending the reclassification of marijuana as a less dangerous drug, moving it from a Schedule 1 classification, alongside drugs like heroin and ecstasy, to a Schedule 3 drug, like ketamine, steroids and testosterone, sources told ABC News.A source confirmed…
(WASHINGTON) -- In a historic shift, the Drug Enforcement Administration supports recommending the reclassification of marijuana as a less dangerous drug, moving it from a Schedule 1 classification, alongside drugs like heroin and ecstasy, to a Schedule 3 drug, like ketamine, steroids and testosterone, sources told ABC News.A source confirmed…
(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump is playing down but not ruling out the possibility of political violence if he loses the November election."I don't think we're going to have that. I think we're going to win," Trump told Time magazine in a cover story published on Tuesday.He had been…
(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump is playing down but not ruling out the possibility of political violence if he loses the November election."I don't think we're going to have that. I think we're going to win," Trump told Time magazine in a cover story published on Tuesday.He had been…
(JERUSALEM) -- As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated Tuesday that Israel would proceed with a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah "with or without a deal," the Biden administration -- which has repeatedly warned against a Rafah offensive -- appears to be holding out hope for a…
(WASHINGTON) -- Speaker Mike Johnson and other House Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the college protests happening nationwide in connection to the Israel-Hamas war.Johnson, speaking on Tuesday alongside other GOP leaders at their weekly press conference, denounced the latest developments at Columbia University and called on President Joe…
(WASHINGTON) -- House Democratic leadership announced on Tuesday that if a motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson is brought to the House floor for a vote, they would vote to table the effort -- effectively saving the speaker from ouster. Less than an hour later, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene…
(WASHINGTON) -- Former President Donald Trump maintained in a new interview that he'd leave it up to individual states whether or not they want to monitor women's pregnancies to determine if someone gets an abortion after their state's legal ban and then prosecute them.Asked whether he's comfortable with states prosecuting…
(WASHINGTON) -- When Donald Trump began to claim presidential immunity from criminal prosecution related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, many legal analysts ABC News spoke with considered it a weak argument.But last week, in nearly three hours of oral arguments, several Supreme Court justices seemed open…
