Politics & Government News

7:47 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump has issued a series of pardons, including for the father of a large donor to his super PAC and a woman who ended up back in prison after he commuted her sentence during his first term

7:31 PM on Friday, January 16

Justice Department investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Frey impeded immigration enforcement

5:51 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump this week quietly appointed four new members to the Commission of Fine Arts, one of two federal panels reviewing his plan to build a White House ballroom

5:21 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump says he's ready to restart U.S. mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River water sharing

4:42 PM on Friday, January 16

The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans

4:21 PM on Friday, January 16

The former mayor of a New Jersey town and its current leaders are denying claims that the town directed its police to keep minorities out of the community

4:19 PM on Friday, January 16

National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year

4:12 PM on Friday, January 16

Republicans in Congress are supporting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank

3:34 PM on Friday, January 16

A Southern California college student who says he was blinded in one eye by a projectile fired by a federal officer during a protest says he no longer has depth perception and lost the ability to drive

2:28 PM on Friday, January 16

Brazilian President Lula da Silva and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen celebrate the expected signing of a free trade agreement between the EU and Mercosur

2:14 PM on Friday, January 16

A federal judge has ruled that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume

2:03 PM on Friday, January 16

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro

1:13 PM on Friday, January 16

The White House has released the names of some of the leaders who will play a role in overseeing next steps in Gaza

12:58 PM on Friday, January 16

Virginia’s Democratic-led General Assembly is advancing a constitutional amendment to allow redistricting ahead of the midterm elections

11:04 AM on Friday, January 16

A Massachusetts college student mistakenly deported to Honduras said the experience left her in shock and numb and wondering why she had been detained

10:41 AM on Friday, January 16

The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations at schools and universities

6:53 AM on Friday, January 16

A Iran returns to an uneasy calm after protests led to a violent crackdown, a senior cleric is calling for the death penalty for detained demonstrators

12:04 AM on Friday, January 16

The White House and a bipartisan group of governors are taking aim at power shortages and price spikes from data centers for artificial intelligence

12:03 AM on Friday, January 16

As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure

12:02 AM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump isn't waiting for future generations to decide to name important things in his honor — he's doing it himself