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The move follows months of contentious negotiations with Congress. The Justice Department has started to provide access to a group of bipartisan congressional leaders some of the classified materials recovered from the residences of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News Tuesday. Administration officials began sharing the documents with House and Senate leaders hip as well as the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees -- known as the "Gang of Eight" -- last week, sources said. The production follows months of increasingly contentious back-and-forth negotiations between lawmakers and the Justice Department, which now has two separate special counsel probes investigating the potential mishandling of classified materials by Trump and Biden. Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event at the Mar-a-Lago Club April 4, 202...

The federal government says two hospitals broke the law when refusing a Missouri woman an abortion doctors said she needed to save her life. Hospitals in Missouri and Kansas violated federal law last summer when they refused to provide an emergency abortion to a woman who went into premature labor at nearly 18 weeks and risked developing a life-threatening infection, according to initial findings in a government investigation by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The investigation, which is the first of its kind, underscores the persistent legal confusion in several states that ban abortions but carve out exceptions when a patient's life is at risk. Abortion rights advocates say there's no clear standard on when a health condition is serious enough to intervene and that doctors are often unclear on how to treat medical complications in a way that won't violate anti-abortion statutes. In the case of Mylissa Farmer of Joplin, Missouri, she was told she risked d...