Politics & Government News

7:19 PM on Tuesday, June 16

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

7:09 PM on Tuesday, June 16

6:27 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The U.S. Justice Department has accused New York state officials of facilitating fraud by letting a Georgia company use a sham bidding process to gain control of a $10 billion program to provide home care to disabled Medicaid patients

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

5:23 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Senate has tried again to advance a war powers resolution that would force an end to the U.S. military action against Iran

4:51 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump seems to be testing their friendship as he pressures Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to sink the agreement with Iran to end the war

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

4:05 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is using his bully pulpit to call for an end to the death penalty in his state

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

3:48 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Vice President JD Vance is promoting his new book, but that wasn’t the main focus when he went on ABC’s “The View” to plug his memoir on faith

3:16 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay wages for detainees’ “voluntary work."

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

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

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

Republicans were waging their latest fight over party identity in Georgia

12:08 AM on Tuesday, June 16

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

12:05 AM on Tuesday, June 16

U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern of Oklahoma is hoping to win the Republican nomination for the Senate seat once held by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin

12:02 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Alabama voters are deciding party nominations for an open U.S. Senate seat