Category Archives: ABC News: Top Stories

Trump questions if concerns over TikTok are 'that important.' Some aides say they are
Donald Trump is downplaying the potential threat that TikTok poses to national security -- but numerous aides and allies are squarely at odds with the president.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

Trump continues to defend Jan. 6 pardons, suggests Biden should have pardoned himself
President Donald Trump continued to defend his controversial pardons of the Jan. 6 rioters with false claims that they were wrongly prosecuted.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

WATCH: New York ferries contend with icy waters
The icy conditions on the Hudson River made the journey between New York and New Jersey a little more difficult to navigate on Thursday.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

USDA secretary nominee says politics shouldn't influence California wildfire response
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture says efforts by the U.S. Forest Service to fight wildfires in California shouldn’t be influenced by politics
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

Trump tells world business leaders to invest in the US or else
President Donald Trump gave international business leaders to invest in the U.S. or else.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

Panama Canal, immigration crackdown to be focal point of Rubio's 1st foreign visit
Rubio will depart on his first foreign trip to visit countries in Central America that may be vital for carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportation plans.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

Trump's definition of 'male,' 'female' criticized by medical and legal experts
President Trump issued an executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person's sex assigned at birth.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

Sacklers, Purdue Pharma reach $7.4 billion settlement in opioid lawsuits
Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed Thursday to increase their financial contribution to $7.4 billion to resolve mass opioid litigation.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

Trump says he will 'demand' lower interest rates
Trump made a virtual address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

DOJ orders legal service providers to stop providing support at immigration courts
The Department of Justice has told legal service providers who receive federal funding to stop providing legal orientation to immigrants at immigration courts.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 23, 2025

