There was a national reckoning after the 2024 presidential campaign about federal officials — Joe Biden and his White House, specifically — hiding important health information from the public. But the hiding hasn’t stopped. If anything, it appears to be getting worse. Increasingly, some very high-profile public officials seem to have concluded that constituents and the broader public simply aren’t entitled to basic information explaining lengthy absences from their jobs. And their staffs are enabling them.

Republican Rep. Tom Kean of New Jersey recently returned to the House after spending more than 100 days away with no explanation at the time, ultimately citing depression. Now, questions are building about the also mysterious and now weeks long absence of GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

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ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., about her calls to end the war with Iran and the expiration of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian and Syrian migrants.
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Newly released body camera footage shows the harrowing shootout in San Antonio after SWAT officers pulled into an apartment complex to execute an arrest warrant on a suspect, who allegedly opened fire on them. Pierre Thomas has details.

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ABC News’ Linsey Davis spoke with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., about expiring TPS for Haitians, the Iran war and why he believes the Senate should not go into recess until the SAVE America Act is passed.
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Israel shared intelligence with the United States that Iran had recently devised a new plan to assassinate President Donald Trump, two sources familiar with matter told CNN. One of the sources said the warning came this week. Another source said the US had picked up a steady drumbeat of intelligence in recent weeks about possible plans to assassinate Trump, but the warning from Israel was new and concerned a specific plot.

The details of that plot were not immediately clear, nor was it clear if the US had detected it separately from the Israeli warning. Asked for comment on the Israeli warning, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, the White House pointed to Trump’s recent comments on Iran’s desire to kill him.

0:00 Iran’s new plot to assassinate President Trump
1:56 Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan on the new plot
6:54 WSJ reporter on the intelligence shared from Israel

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