Val Demings speaks on the Senate floor during the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, Jan. 21, 2020, in Washington, DC. - (ABC News)(NEW YORK) -- Florida Rep. Val Demings, a House manager during the Senate...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard filed a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for defamation alleging that the former secretary of state suggested the congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential...

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead(DAVOS, Switzerland) -- President Donald Trump Wednesday said that while he would prefer to see a lengthy Senate impeachment trial with witnesses, "national security" concerns...

Let the trial begin, well actually not so fast.

JasonDoiy/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The moderators in the Feb. 7 Democratic primary debate have been announced. ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, World News Tonight anchor and managing editor David Muir and ABC News...

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead(DAVOS, Switzerland) -- President Donald Trump appeared to brush off the traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and concussion-like injuries sustained by U.S. service members after...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Chief Justice John Roberts, presiding over the Senate impeachment trial, scolded both President Donald Trump’s defense team and House managers after a tense exchange between the two sides in...

uschools/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Here is how the day is unfolding. Please refresh for updates. 11 a.m. Senate set to hear opening arguments, Trump calls trial 'a disgrace' In about two hours, the Senate will begin to hear...

Jeff Neira/ABC(WASHINGTON) -- Mike Bloomberg's campaign has won the support of a significant voice in the House of Representatives. Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., announced Tuesday evening that he would endorse the former New...

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead(WASHINGTON) -- A lawyer for Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani who was indicted on campaign finance charges, called on Attorney General William Barr to recuse himself...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton levied scathing attacks on Sen. Bernie Sanders in a new Hulu documentary and in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. Clinton, who competed for the 2016...

With the ceremony and the swearings-in out of the way last week, the senate today is beginning the real business of the impeachment trial of President Trump.

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has apologized after a prominent surrogate published a negative op-ed about Sanders' 2020 rival former Vice President Joe Biden. Author Zephyr Teachout penned the op-ed in...

Jeff Neira/ABC(NEW YORK) -- Mike Bloomberg is being visited by the specter of campaigns past. Mark Green, Bloomberg's Democratic opponent in the 2001 NYC mayoral race, is announcing that this week, he will file an...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Alan Dershowitz, the celebrity lawyer and Harvard professor emeritus named to President Donald Trump’s legal team last week, is already facing questions about his defense of the president in...

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead(WASHINGTON) -- Paul Rosenzweig, the former senior counsel to Ken Starr, who led the Whitewater investigation into former President Bill Clinton that resulted in Clinton's...

drnadig/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- For a president who likes a good show and seems to thrive on chaos, the opening of his impeachment trial Tuesday could give him exactly that. Sources on Capitol Hill expect the first full...

yenwen/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Trump administration plans to move forward with a new rule aimed at stopping what it calls "birth tourism" -- pregnant women traveling to the U.S. to have a "citizen child," a State...

Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow in Rep. Elijah Cummings, talks to the hosts of ABC's "The View," for Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 20, 2020. - (Lou Rocco/Walt Disney Television)(WASHINGTON) -- Maya Rockeymoore...

NoDerog/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- American elections have long been awash in cash, but a decade after the Supreme Court eliminated limits on political spending by outside groups, watchdogs say the system is drowning in it. ...