NEW— Nikki Haley is running as a China hawk, but her record paints a different picture deep dive into Haley’s efforts to recruit Chinese businesses — including a video obtained by ABC News Haley sent to be played overseas at a China deal signing ceremony abcnews.go.com/US/nikki-haley…

Scoop: Ron DeSantis on Tuesday criticized Sen. Mitt Romney, saying "he never fought for us" -- but a newly unearthed photo from DeSantis' law school yearbook indicates he once campaigned for him. w/ Lucien Bruggeman Will Steakin abcnews.go.com/US/desantis-ro…

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss will seek between $15.5 million and $43 million from Rudy Giuliani at a defamation trial slated to begin next month, attorneys for the mother and daughter wrote in court documents filed Tuesday. abcnews.go.com/US/2-georgia-e…

Hunter Biden seeking court permission to subpoena Trump, Bill Barr to determine whether federal gun charges were the result of "a vindictive or selective prosecution arising from an unrelenting pressure campaign beginning in the last administration." abcnews.go.com/US/hunter-bide…

Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss described living in a perpetual state of fear after Rudy Giuliani targeted them with conspiracy-fueled lies after the 2020 election. This week, a jury will tally the cost of those lies when their defamation suit goes to trial. abcnews.go.com/US/georgia-ele…

Hunter Biden is telling lawmakers that his appearance today “should put an end to this baseless and destructive political charade,” adding that he “never” involved his father in his own professional matters, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by ⁦ABC News⁩

NEWS: Ex-Fulton County prosecutor Nathan Wade says "day of reckoning" coming in case against Donald Trump, despite Fani Willis relationship Wade, in first interview, said jury would "do the right thing" abcnews.go.com/US/fulton-coun…

In conversations with people in and close to the Biden family tonight, ABC News Lucien Bruggeman reports the word that keeps reemerging: relief. “For the people who love Joe, who are closest to Joe … there is a sense of relief,” said one person close to the family.

This morning, before Biden announced he was dropping out, he told his brother James and sister Valerie. They did not try to convince him to stick it out, a source close to the family tells Lucien Bruggeman Source says the Biden family is feeling "relief" after "painful experience"

Three former aides said Gabbard regularly read and shared articles from the Russian news site RT, which the U.S. intelligence community characterized in 2017 as "the Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet." ABC News abcnews.go.com/US/gabbards-vi…

NEW: Fed employees with the Department of Transportation were instructed Thursday to remove pronouns from everything from gov grant applications to email signatures, sources told ABC News w. Selina Wang Anne Flaherty Lucien Bruggeman abcnews.go.com/US/federal-emp…

The State Department has begun working to assist in evacuating all USAID staff who are on foreign assignments worldwide, according to multiple sources familiar with the effort. Will Steakin Lucien Bruggeman

NEWS: USAID staff "en masse" receiving notice putting them on admin leave W. Karen Travers Lucien Bruggeman Letter obtained by ABC News from acting deputy admin informing staff:

The former official said that "their frustration comes from watching an illogical policy jeopardize the mission they've dedicated their careers to protecting." abcnews.go.com/US/federal-gov… From Lucien Bruggeman and Cindy Smith

At the behest of the US ambassador to Guatemala, USAID staff spent all night on Tuesday making a list of programs in place aligned with Trump admin goals, per an embassy official. That list was turned over to Sec. Rubio, who praised it. 🧵 w/ Lucien Bruggeman

The entire global workforce at USAID will be reduced to fewer than 300 employees, down from roughly 14,000 prior to the Trump administration’s shakeup of the aid agency, multiple sources told Lucien Bruggeman Shannon Kate Kingston Will Steakin for ABC News

Melania Trump praised "successful" USAID programs. Ivanka Trump led the $50M “Women's Global Development and Prosperity" Initiative distributed by USAID. Pres Trump now says agency made up of “radical left lunatics.” W/@abc’s Lucien Bruggeman Cindy Smith abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…

Trump calls USAID a ‘tremendous fraud.’ His wife and daughter promoted its work - ABC News abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump…

Confusion, tears and 'Hunger Games' at USAID as agency prepares to go dark - ABC News ⁦Rachel Scott⁩ ⁦Will Steakin⁩ ⁦Shannon Kate Kingston⁩ abcnews.go.com/US/confusion-t…

A USAID official escaped violence in Congo. He returned home to a different crisis. "I risked my life and my family's lives only ... to land in the United States and be under attack in a completely different way." abcnews.go.com/Politics/video… via ABC News