Politics & Government News

5:29 PM on Thursday, January 15

Congress is halfway home in approving government funding for the current budget year that began Oct. 1 after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a three-bill package on Thursday

5:01 PM on Thursday, January 15

Betsy McCaughey, a conservative commentator and former New York lieutenant governor, is running for governor of Connecticut

4:40 PM on Thursday, January 15

Providers, state health agencies and others are feeling whiplash and confusion after the Trump administration eliminated and then abruptly reinstated grants that support substance abuse and mental health programs nationwide

4:19 PM on Thursday, January 15

California health care advocates and progressive lawmakers are urging the governor and Legislature to find new funding for medical care and social services for low-income and disabled residents

3:52 PM on Thursday, January 15

The Czech Republic's new government of populist Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has won a confidence vote in Parliament

3:18 PM on Thursday, January 15

The Marine Corps general tapped to lead U.S. military operations in Latin America says he's ready to oversee an expanded presence but isn't sure what the Trump administration has planned

3:16 PM on Thursday, January 15

Tanzania’s president has, for the first time since the disputed October election, commented on a six-day internet shutdown that disrupted operations as the country went through its worst postelection violence

3:14 PM on Thursday, January 15

The United Nations chief is lashing out at countries that violate international law and calling the concentration of power and wealth by the world’s richest 1% “morally indefensible.”

2:48 PM on Thursday, January 15

A top ICE official has resigned her job in a bid to oust the longest-serving woman in Congress this fall

2:45 PM on Thursday, January 15

San Jose has banned federal immigration activity at dozens of city properties

1:48 PM on Thursday, January 15

The White House says it is moving into the second phase of President Donald Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan

1:14 PM on Thursday, January 15

U.K. officials say they are enforcing new laws to make creating online sexual images without consent illegal

12:59 PM on Thursday, January 15

Exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi has outlined his vision for a democratic Iran on social media

12:48 PM on Thursday, January 15

Guatemala President Bernardo Arévalo says his administration has maintained a good relationship with the United States built on shared interests

11:52 AM on Thursday, January 15

A federal judge has cleared the way for a New York offshore wind project to resume construction

9:32 AM on Thursday, January 15

U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela

7:02 AM on Thursday, January 15

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to boost production of rare earths and the other critical minerals

7:00 AM on Thursday, January 15

President Donald Trump’s second term has been eventful, but you wouldn’t know it from his approval numbers

6:54 AM on Thursday, January 15

Britain’s Conservative Party, which governed the country from 2010 until it suffered its worst-ever electoral defeat two years ago, was plunged into fresh turmoil Thursday after its leader sacked the man widely seen as her greatest rival for apparently plotting to defect from the party

3:50 AM on Thursday, January 15

Troops from European countries, including France and Germany, are arriving in Greenland to boost security