Politics & Government News

8:32 PM on Monday, January 12

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his wife, Rama Duwaji, have moved into the official mayoral residence in Manhattan, leaving behind their leaky one-bedroom apartment in Queens

8:00 PM on Monday, January 12

7:30 PM on Monday, January 12

President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests

5:25 PM on Monday, January 12

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election

5:00 PM on Monday, January 12

Colombia’s National Liberation Army called for a “national accord” to overcome political conflicts, as it faces the prospects of attacks from the governments of Colombia and the United States

4:08 PM on Monday, January 12

“PBS News Weekend,” the companion to the weekday “NewsHour” program, has signed off, eliminated due to federal funding cuts to public broadcasting

3:45 PM on Monday, January 12

Democrats are looking to expand their hold on the nation's governorships in the midterm elections in November

3:25 PM on Monday, January 12

The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer

2:34 PM on Monday, January 12

Yaxzodara Lozada has woken up freezing on a sidewalk outside a Venezuelan prison, hoping her husband, a police officer detained in November, will be released

2:09 PM on Monday, January 12

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly has sued the Pentagon over attempts to punish him for his warnings about illegal orders

11:03 AM on Monday, January 12

London's murder rate fell in 2025 to its lowest level in decades, officials said Monday

10:59 AM on Monday, January 12

The Trump administration’s criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has sparked a backlash that may undermine the White House’s goals

9:29 AM on Monday, January 12

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says his administration is not in talks with the U.S. government

9:14 AM on Monday, January 12

U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated threats to take control of Greenland are straining relations with NATO allies

8:21 AM on Monday, January 12

Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the federal government to stop surge by federal immigration authorities

7:34 AM on Monday, January 12

Pope Leo XIV has met with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the Vatican

6:21 AM on Monday, January 12

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is visiting China this week to mend relations with the world's second-largest economy

5:24 AM on Monday, January 12

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation is headed to Copenhagen later this week to show unity with Denmark amid tensions over Greenland

1:38 AM on Monday, January 12

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran wants to negotiate with the U.S. after his threat to strike the country over its crackdown on protesters

1:02 AM on Monday, January 12

U.S. President Donald Trump says Iran has proposed negotiations following his threat to strike the country amid a crackdown on demonstrators