Politics & Government News

8:08 PM on Thursday, March 26

Facing a convulsing stock market, President Donald Trump has moved to buy himself more time and hold off on carrying out a threat to obliterate Iran’s energy plants

7:49 PM on Thursday, March 26

A federal judge has extended her order requiring that federal authorities give immigrants detained in Minnesota access to attorneys immediately

7:25 PM on Thursday, March 26

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether California and Maine violate female inmates’ rights by housing them with transgender women

6:32 PM on Thursday, March 26

6:27 PM on Thursday, March 26

Allegations that César Chavez sexually abused women and girls are reshaping how many communities honor him

6:26 PM on Thursday, March 26

The United Nations’ acting top envoy for Congo has warned the U.N. Security Council that the conflict in mineral-rich eastern Congo is escalating and expanding

5:56 PM on Thursday, March 26

The Education Department will relocate from its Washington headquarters as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency, officials said Thursday

5:51 PM on Thursday, March 26

A Republican-led initiative to repeal Utah's voter-approved anti-gerrymandering standards has failed to make the November ballot

5:49 PM on Thursday, March 26

The Treasury Department plans to print President Donald Trump’s signature on every new U.S. paper bill

4:08 PM on Thursday, March 26

A federal judge has upheld North Carolina’s photo voter ID law, setting aside claims by civil rights groups that discrimination against Black and Latino voters warrants striking it down

3:35 PM on Thursday, March 26

The Trump administration has opened investigations into how race is considered in admissions at three medical schools, ratcheting up its pressure campaign against colleges and universities

12:10 PM on Thursday, March 26

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Congress struggles to reach a deal to end the budget impasse that has jammed airports and left workers without paychecks

10:49 AM on Thursday, March 26

A revised version of the House's aviation safety bill now has the backing of the National Transportation Safety Board, but the families of the 67 victims of last year's midair collision near Washington, D.C., still want to see tougher requirements to ensure reforms are implemented

9:14 AM on Thursday, March 26

The House Ethics Committee is holding a rare public hearing into alleged ethics violations by Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick

3:44 AM on Thursday, March 26

Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks in North Korea’s capital on Thursday and signed a friendship and cooperation treaty as the key allies of Moscow draw closer amid their confrontations with the U.S.-led West

1:49 AM on Thursday, March 26

Iran and the United States appear to be at an impasse

1:30 AM on Thursday, March 26

President Donald Trump says he will sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration workers

12:01 AM on Thursday, March 26

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill to rename César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations against the Latino labor icon

12:01 AM on Thursday, March 26

A U.S. judge has pressed the Trump administration about its basis for barring Venezuela’s government from paying former President Nicolás Maduro’s legal fees in his drug trafficking case

11:53 PM on Wednesday, March 25

President Donald Trump has delayed a threatened U.S. strike on Iran’s energy infrastructure and extended a deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz until April 6