Politics & Government News

12:20 AM on Wednesday, June 17

Georgia is the next Southern state where Republicans are convening to redraw political districts in ways that could diminish the political power of Black and other nonwhite voters

12:06 AM on Wednesday, June 17

Franklin Roosevelt helped launch the modern system of presidential libraries in the late 1930s

12:02 AM on Wednesday, June 17

President Donald Trump wraps up talks at the Group of Seven summit, promoting an emerging agreement with Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons

12:01 AM on Wednesday, June 17

The interim deal between the U.S. and Iran is supposed to usher in a two-month period that would address the most divisive issue between the longtime adversaries — Tehran’s nuclear program

8:49 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The federal government has asked a judge to halt the United States' first reparations program in Evanston, Illinois

7:56 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The NFL Players Association and National Basketball Players Association teamed up on letter to leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee, applauding their efforts on a recently introduced Senate bill designed to fix college sports

7:30 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Education Department is transferring oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies

7:19 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom

4:47 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Federal Reserve will enter the Kevin Warsh era Wednesday, as President Trump’s pick to lead the central bank oversees his first policy meeting and holds his first news conference

4:06 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — is stressing in an Associated Press interview that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI

4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has visited Haiti, where surging gang violence has left more than 1 in 10 people homeless

1:15 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies

8:48 AM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidates are having mixed results in Tuesday’s primaries, securing the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate in Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma but not for Georgia governor

8:00 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Court papers say law enforcement officials disrupted a planned attack targeting the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend

7:55 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Georgia Republicans delivered a split decision for Donald Trump in Tuesday runoffs

12:08 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Robert White Jr. has won the Democratic primary for the District of Columbia’s delegate seat in Congress

12:05 AM on Tuesday, June 16

U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern has won the Republican nomination in Oklahoma for the Senate seat once held by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin

12:02 AM on Tuesday, June 16

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore has won the Republican primary runoff for an open Senate seat in Alabama

12:01 AM on Tuesday, June 16

An endorsement from President Donald Trump is worth a lot in Republican primaries

Tuesday, June 16

Democrat Aisha Wahab has advanced to a special general election in California for the U.S. House seat formerly held by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell