Politics & Government News

12:15 AM on Thursday, October 30

New Jersey voters will decide a competitive race for governor Tuesday in a contest that will be viewed through the prism of national politics regardless of who wins

12:03 AM on Thursday, October 30

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is pushing to build more homes to address the city's housing crisis

9:52 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Vice President JD Vance called for a significant reduction in legal immigration during an appearance at a Turning Point event at the University of Mississippi

8:43 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa made a last-ditch plea to conservative voters to turn in their ballots and reject a plan to redraw the US House map favoring Democrats

8:13 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military has killed four people in a strike against a boat that was allegedly carrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean

7:41 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The Trump administration has restored a memorial to Confederate General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C. Demonstrators took it down during racial justice protests in the summer of 2020

7:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A South Texas city has removed a mural protesting the border wall along the southern border with Mexico following a threat by Gov. Greg Abbott to withhold up to $1.6 billion in road funding

7:07 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Immigration authorities say they did not receive word of a court order blocking the removal of an Alabama father until after he had been deported to Laos

6:10 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine

5:41 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The Senate is passing legislation that would nullify U.S. tariffs on Canada

5:39 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Colorado officials say the relocation of U.S. Space Command to Alabama was illegally motivated by President Donald Trump’s desire to punish Colorado for allowing mail-in voting

4:10 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Food aid for more than 40 million Americans is at risk of expiring at week's end

3:23 PM on Wednesday, October 29

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, to apologize to Ontario’s representative in Washington

2:24 PM on Wednesday, October 29

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1:02 PM on Wednesday, October 29

A federal appeals court has blocked an order that required a senior Border Patrol official to brief a judge on Chicago immigration sweeps

9:24 AM on Wednesday, October 29

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Melissa has begun affecting the southeastern Bahamas

7:17 AM on Wednesday, October 29

1:29 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Hurricane Melissa has left widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica

8:18 PM on Tuesday, October 28

President Donald Trump says the United States will share closely held technology to allow South Korea to build a nuclear-powered submarine

12:21 PM on Tuesday, October 21

In less than two months, President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth say, the U.S. military has killed at least 61 people in strikes against drug-smuggling vessels off the South American coast