Politics & Government News

7:59 PM on Thursday, July 23

A federal judicial panel has allowed a new Tennessee congressional map that splits apart a majority-Black district in Memphis

7:41 PM on Thursday, July 23

Alaska has sent more than 3,000 letters to residents asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of this year's elections

6:16 PM on Thursday, July 23

Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court may be deeply conservative but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump

6:00 PM on Thursday, July 23

5:59 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Trump administration is seeking to rename Manhattan’s Penn Station as part of a planned $8 billion redesign of the country’s busiest transit hub

5:52 PM on Thursday, July 23

A group of tribes and environmentalists is urging California to study the feasibility of reintroducing grizzly bears

5:30 PM on Thursday, July 23

Tennessee State University president Dwayne Tucker has placed athletic director Mikki Allen on administrative leave following an internal investigation which was prompted by a vote of no confidence from six coaches at the school

4:59 PM on Thursday, July 23

As President Donald Trump continues to push for stricter proof of citizenship laws ahead of the midterm elections, social media users are falsely alleging that an old clip shows former President Barack Obama telling people in the U.S. illegally to vote in the 2016 election

4:10 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Education Department will no longer consider school policies that disproportionately harm one group of students as discriminatory unless the discrimination is intentional, rescinding a decades-long standard for civil rights enforcement

3:34 PM on Thursday, July 23

Three voters supported by the Wisconsin Democratic Party have filed a lawsuit against the state elections commission, seeking a ruling that would allow for voters who have already returned their absentee ballots to void those and request a new one

2:56 PM on Thursday, July 23

The Senate health committee has delayed a vote planned for Thursday on whether to advance the nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2:47 PM on Thursday, July 23

Senate Democrats want a watchdog at the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the recent departure of a high-ranking IRS attorney who clashed with President Donald Trump's White House after the attorney raised concerns about influence over taxpayer audits

2:05 PM on Thursday, July 23

More than two dozen states have sued the Trump administration after it required them to comply with election and immigration conditions to get billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters

1:10 PM on Thursday, July 23

A nun who was taken into immigration custody last month in Texas is speaking out for the first time about her arrest while walking to Mass

11:37 AM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump is having governors and electricity companies join a pledge aimed at shielding U.S. consumers from higher utility bills because data centers

8:32 AM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump says he is imposing new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners

8:13 AM on Thursday, July 23

President Donald Trump appeared to add a condition to the newly signed agreement with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program, saying the deal would require the kingdom to normalize its relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords

7:47 AM on Thursday, July 23

A key Republican lawmaker says he believes that special counsel Jack Smith may have lied to Congress while testifying about his investigation of President Donald Trump and that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting him

12:03 AM on Thursday, July 23

In just a week, the dismissal of a Ukrainian defense minister set in motion a transformation of the country’s armed forces that replaced the old guard with a new generation of leadership

12:01 AM on Thursday, July 23

The U.S. Navy is backing away from statements that it would begin to restrict press and public access to sailors’ service histories