Politics & Government News

3:01 PM on Friday, March 27

California lawmakers have voted to audit the state’s joint intelligence “fusion centers” after claims of illegal data sharing and invasive surveillance

2:33 PM on Friday, March 27

2:03 PM on Friday, March 27

Long-serving Missouri Republican Rep. Sam Graves has decided not to run for reelection

1:52 PM on Friday, March 27

The California attorney general and a voting right groups have launched two legal challenges to halt a ballot seizure by a Republican sheriff in Riverside County

12:54 PM on Friday, March 27

A new Texas report says child care scholarships have very low improper payments

12:43 PM on Friday, March 27

A judge has ruled that the government can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

11:31 AM on Friday, March 27

Mongolia’s Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav resigned Friday after rising tensions within the ruling party and a parliamentary boycott by the opposition

11:03 AM on Friday, March 27

9:37 AM on Friday, March 27

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in the capital and will continue serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at his residence in an upscale gated community

8:06 AM on Friday, March 27

Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he'll be on the general election ballot

7:15 AM on Friday, March 27

A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency, it remains unclear what the agency saved

7:13 AM on Friday, March 27

China has opened two investigations into U.S. trade practices ahead of an upcoming visit by President Donald Trump in May

6:48 AM on Friday, March 27

Austria’s governing coalition has announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14

3:17 AM on Friday, March 27

Hundreds of used sneakers arrive each week at a workshop east of Paris, where workers inspect them for resale, redistribution or rejection

2:28 AM on Friday, March 27

Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war

12:58 AM on Friday, March 27

Nepal’s youngest prime minister has taken the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month

12:18 AM on Friday, March 27

Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two residents who were shot by federal officers

12:14 AM on Friday, March 27

A sharp generational split over the Iran war is opening up at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference

4:14 PM on Thursday, March 26

Posts circulating on social media claim driver’s licenses could not be used for voter registration in federal elections under the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering

2:05 PM on Thursday, March 26

Costa Rica said that it would accept 25 “third party” migrants deported from the United States per week