Category Archives: ABC News: Top Stories

Police officer shot inside home they were responding to for help
A police officer has been seriously injured after a suspect opened fire at authorities from inside a home, officials said.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

Republicans renew efforts to limit people in US illegally from census count
Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter t...
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

WATCH: School districts prep students and families for possible mass deportations
ABC News' Mireya Villarreal visited a school in south Texas to meet students and faculty preparing for the potential impacts of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

Pete Hegseth's ex-wife 'feared for her personal safety,' former sister-in-law says
In a sworn affidavit, Pete Hegseth's former sister-in-law said Hegseth's ex-wife told her she at one point "feared for her personal safety" during her marriage to him.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

Trump's embrace of meme coin sours mood in crypto industry
President Donald Trump’s goodwill in the cryptocurrency industry has taken a hit after he and his wife launched meme coins — a move critics say looks like an unseemly cash grab that underm...
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

Trump's record-breaking executive actions prompt lawsuits, outrage
President Donald Trump shattered the record for most executive orders signed on his first day in office.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

Conflicting accounts on congressional Republicans' approach to Trump's agenda
Trump and Vance brainstormed with top congressional Republicans on a path to execute the president's ambitious agenda amid narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

WATCH: About 1,500 criminal defendants charged in Capitol attack pardoned by Trump
President Donald Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of over 1,500 individuals involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including those convicted of assaulting police officers.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

WATCH: Reverend urges Trump to have 'mercy' on LGBTQ community, migrants
The Rt. Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, during the prayer service at Washington National Cathedral, directed a message for President Donald Trump, who was seated in the front row.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

Trump criticizes sermon asking him to show 'mercy' toward LGBTQ people, immigrants
He's calling the Episcopal bishop a "Trump hater" and demanding an apology.
ABC News: Top Stories Jan 21, 2025

