Politics & Government News

8:48 PM on Friday, January 23

The Pentagon has released a National Defense Strategy that chastises U.S. allies to take control of their own security and reasserts the Trump administration’s focus on dominance in the Western Hemisphere over a longtime goal of countering China

8:36 PM on Friday, January 23

Federal immigration agents in Minnesota are accused of using a 5-year-old boy as "bait" to arrest his father

8:18 PM on Friday, January 23

Guan Heng sought asylum in the United States after exposing human rights abuses in his native China

7:34 PM on Friday, January 23

5:36 PM on Friday, January 23

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the Trump administration for approving an oil company's plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state's coast

5:16 PM on Friday, January 23

A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church has released her own video of her arrest, after the White House posted a manipulated image online

4:56 PM on Friday, January 23

The Justice Department says in a sharply worded court filing that a report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents belongs in the “dustbin of history” and should remain sealed

4:36 PM on Friday, January 23

3:16 PM on Friday, January 23

A federal judge in Georgia is dismissing a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking voter information from the state

2:40 PM on Friday, January 23

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is optimistic about an upcoming White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump

2:02 PM on Friday, January 23

A member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council has announced that a majority of the panel has voted to fire the country’s embattled Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the country’s political chaos deepens

12:40 PM on Friday, January 23

Maine’s leading Republican and Democratic officials are taking different approaches to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s sweeping ongoing action in the state

10:37 AM on Friday, January 23

Renée Fleming is withdrawing from two May appearances at the Kennedy Center

10:27 AM on Friday, January 23

Outraged critics are accusing President Donald Trump of “whitewashing history” after the National Park Service removed an exhibit on slavery at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park

8:22 AM on Friday, January 23

Leaders at the World Economic Forum urged countries and businesses to filter out the turmoil from a week of clashes with the Trump administration and focus on boosting growth and fighting inequality

7:14 AM on Friday, January 23

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has signaled that U.S. President Donald Trump to apologize for his false assertion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan

5:52 AM on Friday, January 23

1:03 AM on Friday, January 23

Police have arrested about 100 clergy who were demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport

10:49 PM on Thursday, January 22

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia, and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi

3:27 PM on Thursday, January 22

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's comment that “Canada lives because of the United States” by saying Canada thrives because of Canadian values