Politics & Government News

12:02 AM on Saturday, March 28

President Donald Trump has laid out five objectives for the U.S. in its war with Iran that he said the U.S. is close to achieving as he considers “winding down” the operation

8:32 PM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge says Minnesota public universities can keep offering in-state tuition and some scholarships to certain students without legal status

7:14 PM on Friday, March 27

Transportation Security Administration agents could start getting their paychecks as early as Monday after President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to pay them immediately

6:54 PM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge has ruled that the immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” must provide people detained there with better access to their attorneys

6:54 PM on Friday, March 27

Georgia Republicans have passed a bill stripping party labels from most local election races in metro Atlanta’s biggest counties

5:05 PM on Friday, March 27

Idaho lawmakers passed a sweeping bathroom bill Friday that makes it a crime for transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender identity

3:39 PM on Friday, March 27

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's assertion that the U.S. wants Ukraine to hand over territory to Russia to receive American security guarantees in any ceasefire plan

3:28 PM on Friday, March 27

Mexico’s government says it has identified signs of life for as many as a third of the country’s 130,000 registered missing people

3:23 PM on Friday, March 27

As gas prices approach $4 a gallon nationally amid the conflict in Iran, some lawmakers are pushing to suspend the federal gasoline tax

2:40 PM on Friday, March 27

A Missouri judge has allowed the use of new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump

12:28 PM on Friday, March 27

President Donald Trump says the American air travel system has reached a "breaking point."

11:59 AM on Friday, March 27

Vice President JD Vance has held the inaugural meeting of a new anti-fraud task force he’s leading as the Trump administration seeks to show it’s cracking down on potential misuse of social programs

11:56 AM on Friday, March 27

A pro-Iranian hacking group is claiming to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents

11:37 AM on Friday, March 27

More than 7 million student loan borrowers who've been enrolled in a Biden-era repayment plan will receive notices with instructions to seek a new plan to repay their debt

9:46 AM on Friday, March 27

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida is maintaining her innocence following the House Ethics Committee’s finding that the Democratic congresswoman committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards

8:27 AM on Friday, March 27

8:25 AM on Friday, March 27

12:26 AM on Friday, March 27

President Donald Trump has signed a promised executive action to pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress

12:12 AM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge is weighing a demand by Georgia's Fulton County that the FBI return 2020 election ballots and records that were seized from an Atlanta-area warehouse

12:05 AM on Friday, March 27

Deep divisions were apparent over the Iran war as top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries have met in France