Politics & Government News

6:47 PM on Sunday, February 1

President Donald Trump says he will move to close Washington’s Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction

6:41 PM on Sunday, February 1

The Kennedy Center will close for 2 years for renovations starting in July, Trump says, after a backlash from performers

5:30 PM on Sunday, February 1

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum says she plans to send humanitarian aid to Cuba this week, including food and other supplies

5:07 PM on Sunday, February 1

The Republican National Committee vastly outpaced Democrats in 2025, according to year-end filings to the Federal Election Commission

3:45 PM on Sunday, February 1

The mayor of Portland, Oregon, has demanded that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leave his city after federal agents launched tear gas at demonstrators — including young children — outside an ICE facility during a weekend protest

3:30 PM on Sunday, February 1

A top Justice Department official is playing down the possibility of additional criminal charges arising from the Jeffrey Epstein files

12:24 PM on Sunday, February 1

House Speaker Mike Johnson says it'll be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote in the House

12:19 PM on Sunday, February 1

The United States is already dominating the narrative two years before the Los Angeles Olympics and five days before the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Games

11:54 AM on Sunday, February 1

Tens of thousands of Czechs have rallied to support President Petr Pavel in his dispute with the country's foreign minister

11:20 AM on Sunday, February 1

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have returned to Minnesota after being released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

7:57 AM on Sunday, February 1

Donald Trump credits the mayor of a small Detroit suburb with helping him win over Michigan's Arab American community during the 2024 presidential campaign

7:53 AM on Sunday, February 1

President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown in Minnesota is rattling voters in a highly competitive swing district in northern Colorado

1:11 AM on Sunday, February 1

Iran’s supreme leader has warned that any U.S. attack would trigger a “regional war” in the Mideast

12:15 AM on Sunday, February 1

A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States

12:10 AM on Sunday, February 1

Despite proclaiming last February as National Black History Month, President Donald Trump's second term has been marked by what critics say are attacks on Black history in the United States

12:09 AM on Sunday, February 1

Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024

11:53 PM on Saturday, January 31

Costa Rican voters are deciding whether to continue the policies of outgoing conservative populist Rodrigo Chaves by electing his chosen successor

10:35 PM on Saturday, January 31

President Donald Trump says the United States is beginning to talk with Cuban leaders

7:04 PM on Saturday, January 31

Prominent political and business leaders are named in the documents released by the Justice Department in connection with its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein

7:24 AM on Saturday, January 31

Save the Children warns that supplies are running out at al-Hol camp in northeast Syria