Politics & Government News

10:13 PM on Saturday, September 20

President Donald Trump has announced he will award Ben Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom

8:51 PM on Saturday, September 20

The Pentagon is stepping up restrictions on the media by requiring journalists to sign a pledge not to report on information that has not been authorized for release, including unclassified information

7:04 PM on Saturday, September 20

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's YouTube account is offline

6:20 PM on Saturday, September 20

Vietnamese singer Duc Phuc was crowned the winner of the newly revamped Intervision song contest — a Russian answer to Eurovision that some say is as much about politics and power as it is about performance

6:01 PM on Saturday, September 20

The Trump administration is ending the federal government’s annual report on hunger in America, saying it had become “overly politicized″ and ”rife with inaccuracies

5:12 PM on Saturday, September 20

3:52 PM on Saturday, September 20

President Donald Trump has announced his nomination of Lindsey Halligan as the top federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia

3:32 PM on Saturday, September 20

Ecuador's electoral council has approved President Daniel Noboa's request to hold a referendum on constitutional changes

3:18 PM on Saturday, September 20

California has become the first state to ban most law enforcement officers from covering their faces while conducting official business

3:07 PM on Saturday, September 20

On the eve of New York Climate Week, activists and members of the public have gathered to protest the financial institutions that are “making our lives more expensive while profiting off the climate crisis, war and genocide,” the organizers say

1:43 PM on Saturday, September 20

An emerging TikTok deal with China will ensure that U.S. companies control the algorithm that powers the app's video feed and Americans will hold a majority of seats on a board overseeing U.S. operations

12:54 PM on Saturday, September 20

President Donald Trump’s latest plan to overhaul the American immigration system has left some immigrant workers confused

11:50 AM on Saturday, September 20

A possible federal shutdown is looming at month's end, and the Democratic leaders of Congress are demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump to negotiate

11:46 AM on Saturday, September 20

A senior Estonian military official said Russian pilots ignored signals from Italian jets during a 12-minute violation of Estonian airspace

10:39 AM on Saturday, September 20

Donald Trump warned during the campaign that Black Americans were losing jobs in large numbers and things would only worsen without his leadership

10:21 AM on Saturday, September 20

A right-wing demonstration in the Netherlands has erupted into violence as rioters clashed with police and vandalized a political party's office

9:01 AM on Saturday, September 20

In all the stunning things about ABC’s swift removal of Jimmy Kimmel, its longtime late-night host and Oscars-hosting face of the network, perhaps the least surprising was that a comedian was again at the center of a battle over free speech

8:33 AM on Saturday, September 20

An immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area is troubling immigrants and activists because of what they say are increasingly aggressive tactics

12:01 AM on Saturday, September 20

Families of some of the victims of violent crime in Chicago say that although it's been a largely intractable problem for the city for decades, they don't think sending in National Guard troops is the answer

6:44 PM on Friday, September 19

Over the span of 14 days, nearly 200 people marched from Philadelphia to Washington, D