Politics & Government News

4:59 PM on Thursday, January 22

House passes final batch of 2026 spending bills in bid to avoid shutdown as Democrats blast ICE funding

3:37 PM on Thursday, January 22

The Trump administration is arguing the government could detain and deport British people under an 18th century wartime act if a president found there was a “British invasion” corrupting young Americans

3:10 PM on Thursday, January 22

A local Democratic group in Kitsap County has filed an ethics complaint against Washington state Rep. Tarra Simmons

3:07 PM on Thursday, January 22

Florida's Republican attorney general is questioning the constitutionality of state laws supporting minority contracting and diverse appointments

3:06 PM on Thursday, January 22

The Trump administration is ending the use of abortion-derived fetal tissue in research funded by the National Institutes of Health

2:46 PM on Thursday, January 22

Some California residents are still navigating insurance claims in the aftermath of the 2025 Palisades Fire

2:30 PM on Thursday, January 22

Sweden’s migration minister is urging the European Union to come up with a common procedure to issue ID and travel documents to Afghan nationals whose asylum applications have either been rejected or have committed crimes in their host countries

2:20 PM on Thursday, January 22

In the year since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, he’s made sweeping policy changes, eliminated hundreds of government jobs, battled dozens of cases in courts and most recently, deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to major American cities in an effort to tackle immigration concerns he campaigned on

2:13 PM on Thursday, January 22

Berkeley's City Council has approved a proposal allowing property owners to sell accessory dwelling units, like backyard cottages and basement apartments, as condos

1:37 PM on Thursday, January 22

Virginia's new Attorney General Jay Jones is reversing his predecessor’s stance on in-state tuition for immigrants who are in the country illegally

1:32 PM on Thursday, January 22

President Donald Trump is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for $5 billion

1:31 PM on Thursday, January 22

1:10 PM on Thursday, January 22

Trump says he is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for alleged 'political' debanking

1:09 PM on Thursday, January 22

Democratic state Rep. Angie Nixon has announced her candidacy for the Florida U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Ashley Moody in the 2026 election

12:56 PM on Thursday, January 22

The Trump administration is expanding its ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services to include assistance going to international and domestic organizations and agencies that promote gender identity as well as diversity, equity and inclusion programs

12:14 PM on Thursday, January 22

A Missouri lawmaker has been formally reprimanded for sending a sexually vulgar text to a fellow House member

7:01 AM on Thursday, January 22

The House has passed this year's final batch of spending bills

6:56 AM on Thursday, January 22

Police have detained a key ally of Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine, accusing him of involvement in election-related violence

2:45 AM on Thursday, January 22

Leader of Denmark and its semiautonomous territory Greenland are insisting that the island's sovereignty is non-negotiable after U.S. President Donald Trump said he agreed to a framework on Arctic security with the head of NATO

4:31 PM on Tuesday, January 20