Politics & Government News

8:49 PM on Tuesday, January 27

A Republican opponent is challenging U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s eligibility to run for governor of Alabama

8:29 PM on Tuesday, January 27

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will unveil plans to further bolster its nuclear program at the upcoming ruling party congress

8:17 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Man tackled to ground after spraying unknown substance on Rep. Ilhan Omar at town hall in Minneapolis

7:35 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Federal immigration officers tried to enter Ecuadorian consulate in Minneapolis but were stopped, foreign minister says

7:01 PM on Tuesday, January 27

The Trump administration has unveiled 15 new drugs selected for a Medicare drug price negotiation program that allows the federal government to haggle directly with drug manufacturers

5:31 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Trump-backed businessman Nasry Asfura was sworn in Tuesday as president of Honduras

5:06 PM on Tuesday, January 27

CBS News chief Bari Weiss told her staff that “we're toast” if the network continues with its current business strategy and invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking

4:59 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that her government has suspended oil shipments to Cuba, but says the pause in shipments has been a “sovereign decision” and not the result of pressure by the United States

4:47 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Authorities release Ecuadorian man whose case led judge to order ICE leader to appear in Minneapolis court, lawyer says

4:42 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas universities and state agencies on Tuesday to halt new H-1B visa petitions until next year

4:35 PM on Tuesday, January 27

A federal judge has issued a temporary order barring the removal of a 5-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota became another lightning rod for divisions on immigration under the Trump administration

4:31 PM on Tuesday, January 27

A Virginia judge has ruled that a proposed constitutional amendment letting Democrats redraw the state’s Congressional maps was illegal

3:48 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Colombia has blasted Ecuador’s decision to increase transportation fees for Colombian oil

3:11 PM on Tuesday, January 27

The Trump administration has notified Congress that it is taking the first steps to possibly reopen the shuttered U.S. Embassy in Venezuela as it explores restoring relations with the South American country following the U.S. military raid that ousted then-President Nicolás Maduro

10:28 AM on Tuesday, January 27

A former French senator has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison for drugging a fellow lawmaker

9:21 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Russian forces have started withdrawing from positions in northeast Syria still controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces

8:52 AM on Tuesday, January 27

President Donald Trump says a “big investigation” is underway into the killing of protester and ICU nurse Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis

7:40 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Spain will grant legal status to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants living and working in the country without authorization

1:00 AM on Tuesday, January 27

India and the European Union have reached a free trade agreement that covers up to 2 billion people after nearly two decades of negotiations

12:24 AM on Tuesday, January 27

President Donald Trump is making a big pitch in Iowa as the White House tries to focus on affordability ahead of midterm elections despite fallout over his administration's immigration crackdown