Politics & Government News

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

8:00 PM on Tuesday, June 16

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

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6:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi

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

12:44 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding federal agents during a massive immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year

11:41 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Police in Chicago say a person is in custody in an investigation of a large cross set on fire in a well-known park

8:48 AM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidates are doing well in Tuesday’s primaries, securing the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate in both Georgia and Oklahoma

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

Rep. Mike Collins defeated Derek Dooley for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in Georgia

12:08 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Voters in Washington, D.C. went to the polls to select party candidates for mayor and congressional delegate

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

Voters in the San Francisco Bay Area congressional district formerly represented by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell have cast ballots to decide who will replace him