Politics & Government News

7:27 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Guan Heng, a Chinese asylum seeker who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland, has been released after more than five months in federal detention

6:57 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual

6:24 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Georgia Republican U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk says he won't seek reelection this year

6:00 PM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing a statue of Christopher Columbus near the White House

4:55 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Melania Trump has met at the White House with a freed American-Israeli hostage whose plight she featured in her new documentary

4:11 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Republican lawmakers in Indiana are considering a bill to make it illegal to use public land for sleeping and camping

3:43 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Former U.S. Rep. Lee Hamilton, a crewcut-wearing Indiana Democrat who was a leading foreign affairs voice during three decades in Congress, has died

3:34 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, longtime foreign affairs leader and vice chair of Sept. 11 attack panel, has died

3:25 PM on Wednesday, February 4

An Argentine judge has requested the extradition from the United States of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who was captured by the U.S. military last month and now faces federal charges of narco-terrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine in New York

3:15 PM on Wednesday, February 4

White House agrees to move Iran talks to Oman from Turkey after Arab leaders urge US to hear out Tehran, AP source says

2:00 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The Supreme Court has allowed California to use a new voter-approved congressional map that is favorable to Democrats in this year’s elections, rejecting a plea from state Republicans and the Trump administration

1:13 PM on Wednesday, February 4

A government lawyer who told a judge that her job “sucks” during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota has been removed from her Justice Department post

10:56 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Authorities say a Delaware man who was once married to former first lady Jill Biden remains jailed on first-degree murder charges in the death of his wife

10:53 AM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump says he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Iran in a wide-ranging call as the U.S. administration pushes Beijing and others to further isolate Tehran

9:18 AM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump's border czar says he is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to turn over arrested immigrants

7:21 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Armed extremists have killed over 162 people in attacks on two villages in Kwara state, western Nigeria, a lawmaker said

5:02 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the burgeoning economic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing and their relations with the United States in a video call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

2:44 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Emotional medical staff on the Greek island of Chios have spoken of frantic efforts to identify the parents of injured children after an overnight collision between a coast guard patrol boat and a speedboat carrying migrants

12:03 AM on Wednesday, February 4

A federal judge appears poised to again reject President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction, slamming his lawyers for legal maneuvers he said amounted to taking “two bites at the apple.”

12:02 AM on Wednesday, February 4

A man convicted of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in 2024 has been sentenced to life in prison