Politics & Government News

3:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

Some public figures carry threats to their livelihood in the palms of their hands

2:55 PM on Thursday, October 23

The New Orleans City Council held an emergency budget hearing to discuss a cash flow problem that may mean it doesn't have enough money to pay its bills for the rest of the year

2:50 PM on Thursday, October 23

The state of Michigan is suspending incentives and seeking to claw back millions from a Chinese business behind an electric vehicle battery plant project in northern Michigan after the project has been riddled with pushback from locals and national Republicans

2:34 PM on Thursday, October 23

A trail of debts that persisted during Jim Justice’s time as West Virginia’s governor has followed him to the U.S. Senate

2:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayor’s race next month, he would become the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in a century

2:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

Former University of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron is running for lieutenant governor of Alabama

2:26 PM on Thursday, October 23

New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at the White House

1:33 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Senate on Thursday rejected dueling partisan bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats deflecting blame as many employees are set to miss their first full paycheck at the end of this week

1:12 PM on Thursday, October 23

Trump says in social media post he's decided to back away from plan to surge federal agents into San Francisco for now

12:54 PM on Thursday, October 23

Ohio Valley Conference commissioner Beth DeBauche has resigned, effective immediately

12:43 PM on Thursday, October 23

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine

12:12 PM on Thursday, October 23

Maine Democrat Graham Platner remains committed to his U.S. Senate campaign despite a series of controversies

11:52 AM on Thursday, October 23

European Union leaders have endorsed a plan to ensure that Europe can defend itself against an outside attack by the end of the decade

11:46 AM on Thursday, October 23

Authorities say Pakistan has banned a radical Islamist party behind recent violent protests that left at least one police officer and four civilians dead

11:33 AM on Thursday, October 23

Trump pardons Binance's Changpeng Zhao, founder of largest crypto exchange, who admitted allowing money laundering

11:11 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader

8:10 AM on Thursday, October 23

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced his intention to run for reelection next year, seeking a fourth nonconsecutive term

1:43 PM on Wednesday, October 22

The U.S. military has launched its ninth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing three people in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean

12:04 PM on Wednesday, October 22

National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes

10:01 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, tells The Associated Press that he's covered a tattoo on his chest to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol that he got nearly 20 years ago