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Prosecutors have revealed new communications showing a potential 'alliance' that formed between three far-right groups planning to travel to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6.

Audio from a phone recording appears to show the former president asking a Georgia state official to help overturn election results. ABC News' Alex Presha has the details.

Ex-New York Police officer Sara Carpenter was arrested Tuesday on Capitol riot charges. She told the FBI she went there on then-President Trump's instructions.

Former President Trump is reemerging on the political scene after a months-long hiatus, and Trump World insiders expect him to ramp up his activity even more as the midterm elections get closer.

At least 10 people, including a Boulder police officer, have been killed at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, authorities said Monday. A suspect is in custody, Boulder Police Cmdr. Kerry Yamaguchi said.

"If I didn't stand up for myself, this group of people were going to beat me to death."

A number of members of Congress have links to organizations and movements that played a role in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

A new report lays bare why Russian disinformation succeeds.

A woman seen in a viral video being accused of telling an Asian couple to "go back to China" has admitted to WABC-7 News that she's the daughter of the late New York Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Maura Moynihan can be seen in the video arguing with 31-year-old Dan Lee while sitting i

Donald Trump could be in real trouble back in New York, where he lived and worked most of his life -- and the former president's allies are hoping the governor in his new home state will bail him out.Manhattan district attorney Cy Vance Jr. has cranked up the heat on his investigation into Trump'

A Texas teenager is hurt -- and her mother furious -- after a teacher excused a white classmate's use of a racial slur in school.Azariah Fennell, one of the only Black students at Doris Miller Junior High School in San Marcos, was sitting in class when a boy passing by opened up the door an

"Had the tables been turned, and President Trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters, I might have been a little concerned," Johnson said.

Activists warn of potential humanitarian crisis as Myanmar citizens escape violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters

GOP lawmakers in the Georgia General Assembly passed an omnibus bill that makes sweeping changes to election law. Republican Gov. Brian Kemp just signed it.

As we continue to learn more about the circumstances of Monday's mass shooting in Colorado, Americans are still mourning eight people, including six Asian women, who died in a series of attacks in Georgia one week ago. Here's what we know so far about the lives of last week's victims.

In a speech on Tuesday in Washington, Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney said something remarkable.

Protesters took to the streets of cities across the United States over the weekend to condemn racism and hate crimes against Asian Americans, following last week’s deadly shooting in Atlanta which killed eight people, six of them women of Asian descent. The names of all the victims have been released: Xiaojie Tan, Yong Ae Yue, Delaina Ashley Yaun, Suncha Kim, Hyun Jung Grant, Soon Chung Park, Daoyou Feng and Paul Andre Michels. Elcias Hernandez Ortiz, who survived the shooting, is in hospital in critical condition.
In New York, community leaders and elected officials gathered for a vigil Friday evening. This is Jeehae Fischer of the Korean American Family Service Center.

Jeehae Fischer: “These women are our mothers, our aunties, our sisters, our daughters, our loved ones. So, stop beating us! Stop cursing at us! Stop stabbing us! Stop killing us! Stop Asian hate!”


Protesters: “Stop Asian hate! Stop Asian hate! Stop Asian hate! Stop Asian hate! Stop Asian hate! Stop Asian hate!”


Jeehae Fischer: “And stop telling us 'Go back to China.' We belong here.”

President Biden and Vice President Harris met with Asian American leaders in Atlanta and addressed the mass shooting. This is Kamala Harris, who is the first Asian American and first woman vice president.

Vice President Kamala Harris: “Everyone has the right to go to work, to go to school, to walk down the street and be safe, and also the right to be recognized as an American, not as the other, not as them, but as us. A harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us.”

President Biden has urged Congress to quickly pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act. Meanwhile, lawmakers and others have questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray’s statement last week that the shooting was apparently “not racially motivated.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on a proposal to reduce gun violence Tuesday. The Atlanta mass murderer purchased a 9 mm handgun just hours before Tuesday’s massacre at three area spas. The purchase was fully legal.

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on Thursday blocked legislation that would prevent private debt collectors from being able to seize stimulus checks sent out under the latest coronavirus relief bill.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed ignorance as her defense for spreading an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.The Georgia Republican suggested in a November 2018 post on Facebook that the wildfire that ravaged California was started with a laser beam as part of an effort to clear land fo

A Republican lawmaker in Wyoming caused a stir this week when he said it was time for students to start learning "different views" about the history of slavery in the United States.The Casper Star-Tribune reports that Rep. Jeremy Haroldson argued in favor of teaching two sides of slavery during

A Newsmax panel of five white people on Thursday suggested that it was wrong to criticize the "whiteness" of the Georgia shooter who targeted Asian spas in a murder spree this week.

The segment began by arguing that it is "too early" to designate the murders as a racially-motivated hate crime.

An analysis by the FBI concludes that white supremacists would "likely seek affiliation with military and law enforcement entities" in furtherance of their ideologies.

Former President Donald Trump is locked into a battle with the Republican Party, but as Republican Rick Wilson once said, "everything Trump touches dies." Speaking to MSNBC on Tuesday, conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin cited Wilson, noting that the Republican Party isn't lookin