Confused fans rip Garth Brooks for wearing 'Sanders' jersey in Detroit

Leave it to the internet to interpret Garth Brooks wearing a Barry Sanders jersey during a concert in Detroit as a political endorsement of a certain liberal presidential candidate.

Sen. Tim Kaine backs Joe Biden in Democratic presidential primary

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia is announcing his support for Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary, a show of support from a former vice presidential nominee ahead of next week's Super Tuesday contests.

Maryland lawmakers want to limit ICE access to the state's drivers license database

A state lawmaker tells FOX 5, ICE has been using facial recognition software, searching a state database that thousands willingly submitted information to. 

Democrats focus on Super Tuesday even as South Carolina looms

Bernie Sanders will swing through North Carolina, Virginia and Massachusetts in the coming days. Elizabeth Warren will make stops in Texas and Arkansas. Amy Klobuchar will be in Tennessee and Virginia.

Virginia lawmakers pass measures easing abortion restrictions

Abortion restrictions that were enacted when Republicans controlled Virginia’s General Assembly are being undone in legislation approved by the Democrats who are now in charge.

President Trump says US 'very ready' for coronavirus; VP Pence to lead response

President Donald Trump said he'll discuss the coronavirus threat at a White House news conference Wednesday, a day after he sought to minimize fears of the virus spreading widely across the U.S.

House makes lynching a federal crime, 65 years after Emmett Till murder

Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, the House has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law.

Sanders faces attacks in Democrats' debate-stage clash

Bernie Sanders is facing an unprecedented assault from his Democratic rivals as the party's turbulent nomination fight threatens to explode on the debate stage.

Girl, 11, brings AR-15 to Idaho hearing on gun legislation

An 11-year-old girl toting a loaded AR-15 assault weapon appeared Monday at a legislative hearing with her grandfather, who is supporting a proposal that would allow visitors to Idaho who can legally possess firearms to carry a concealed handgun within city limits.

Mubarak, Egypt's autocrat ousted by protests, dies at 91

Egypt's state TV says the country's former President Hosni Mubarak, ousted in the 2011 Arab Spring uprising, has died at 91.

Should Montgomery County’s wealthy pay more taxes? A councilmember is proposing two bills that could.

A Montgomery County councilmember is pitching two state-wide proposals that could address the wealth disparity and provide county Kirwan Commission funds, which would also mean increasing taxes on the wealthy. 

Trump's India visit prioritizes pageantry over policy

President Donald Trump has opened a whirlwind 36-hour visit to India by basking in the adulation of a massive, colorful crowd at a cricket stadium in the western city of Ahmedabad.

Virginia lawmakers pass bill ending state's Lee-Jackson holiday

Virginia lawmakers passed a bill Monday that scraps the state’s Lee-Jackson holiday celebrating two Confederate generals and replaces it with one on Election Day.

Thousands of supporters turn out at northern Virginia high school for Pete Buttigieg town hall

The D.C region got an up close view of the Democratic presidential race Sunday afternoon. Thousands of people turned out to hear Presidential hopeful and Democratic candidate, Pete Buttigieg. According to his, travelling press secretary Nina Smith, the crowd was about 8,800. The town hall was held at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, Virginia.

Fox 5 On The Hill political panel (Feb. 23, 2020)
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Democratic strategist Michael Starr Hopkins and GOP strategist Alex Vogel join Fox 5 On The Hill to discuss the top political headlines of the week in Washington.

Twitter suspends 70 Bloomberg-boosting accounts posting identical messages of support

Twitter is reportedly suspending 70 accounts, some of which are backed by Michael Bloomberg’s campaign, that have posted identical messages in support of the Democrat’s presidential bid, calling the content “platform manipulation.”

DC’s ACLU criticizes Bowser’s defense of Bloomberg on 'Stop and Frisk'

The Executive Director of DC’s American Civil Liberties Union is accusing D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser of “re-writing history” in response to the mayor defending 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on “Stop and Frisk.”