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iStock/JTSorrellBy: ADAM KELSEY, ABC News (NEW YORK) — As Americans continue to emerge from quarantines and stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump declared this week that “we are not closing our country” if the

Darylann Elmi/iStockBY: QUINN SCANLAN, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — When Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, a former Republican who left the party in July to become an independent, announced last weekend that he would not pursue the Libertarian Party’s

BartekSzewczyk/iStockBy QUINN OWEN and ANN FLAHERTY, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — A top Senate Democrat on Friday accused the Trump administration of treating military veterans as “guinea pigs,” after the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed treating 1,300 coronavirus

LPETTET/iStockBy SHANNON K. CRAWFORD, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — A group of Republican senators is urging the Department of Justice to open an investigation into dozens of Planned Parenthood clinics that may have received a portion of the

Official White House Photo by Joyce N. BoghosianBy ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Here are Friday’s most significant developments in Washington so far: — With the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 close to 95,000 as the Memorial Day

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy KENDALL KARSON and QUINN SCANLAN, ABC News(NEW YORK) — The devastating toll of coronavirus is far-reaching, but the impact of the pandemic is particularly acute among black Americans and Latinos, who are nearly three times

ABC NewsBy KENDALL KARSON, MOLLY NAGLE and JOHN VERHOVEK (NEW YORK) — The high-profile race on the periphery of the 2020 presidential contest – to become presumptive nominee Joe Biden’s running mate – is charging ahead, with

Official White House Photo by Tia DufourBy ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump travels to the election battleground state of Michigan to visit a Ford plant converted to make ventilators — and it’s an open question

Official White House Photo by Andrea HanksBy KENDALL KARSON and BEN GITTLESON, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on mail-in voting on Wednesday, targeting election officials in two battleground states over efforts to

Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesBy MARIAM KHAN, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday she was giving President Donald Trump a “dose of his own medicine” when she referred to him as “morbidly obese” during a