Politics & Government News

2:42 PM on Friday, February 6

FEMA is resuming staff cuts that were paused during January's severe winter storm, according to two FEMA managers

2:41 PM on Friday, February 6

Anna Lee Pettit, 93, lives alone in affordable housing in Morgantown, West Virginia

2:35 PM on Friday, February 6

2:20 PM on Friday, February 6

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is considering changes to its voting process after Bill Belichick's omission from the 2026 class sparked outrage

1:59 PM on Friday, February 6

U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon say they have faced increased violence from Israeli forces over the past year

1:38 PM on Friday, February 6

Nevada is falling short of its greenhouse gas reduction goals, with emissions projected to remain nearly unchanged over the next five years

1:27 PM on Friday, February 6

Energy Star, the program that helps guide consumers to more energy-efficient appliances and electronics, has survived President Donald Trump’s attempt to kill it

1:24 PM on Friday, February 6

The Trump administration's immigration operation in Minnesota is now being unified under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

1:14 PM on Friday, February 6

Attorney General Pam Bondi says she's not worried about the involvement of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in an FBI search of a Georgia election office

12:51 PM on Friday, February 6

Trump's racist post about the Obamas is deleted after backlash. White House defended it but now blames a staffer

12:44 PM on Friday, February 6

The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee is requesting records related to firms partially owned by the husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar

10:02 AM on Friday, February 6

The Justice Department says a key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, has been taken into custody and will be prosecuted in Washington in connection with a rampage that killed four Americans and became a divisive political issue

9:27 AM on Friday, February 6

Bad Bunny will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show Sunday, fresh off his album of the year Grammy win for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos.”

9:02 AM on Friday, February 6

A racist post on President Donald Trump's social media account depicting former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle has been taken down

8:45 AM on Friday, February 6

President Donald Trump’s social media post featuring a video about election conspiracy theories and a racist depiction of former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle has been deleted

8:07 AM on Friday, February 6

A division of the U.S. Agency for International Development eliminated by Trump administration cuts last year was reborn Thursday as an independent nonprofit

6:06 AM on Friday, February 6

The Kremlin says Russian and U.S. negotiators have discussed the expiration of their last remaining nuclear arms pact

12:01 AM on Friday, February 6

For many immigrant families in Minnesota, sending a child to school each day requires faith that one of the thousands of federal immigration officers deployed around the state won’t detain them

11:54 PM on Thursday, February 5

Lawyers for conservation groups, Native American tribes, and the states of Oregon and Washington are returning to court to seek changes to dam operations on the Snake and Columbia Rivers

9:59 PM on Thursday, February 5

Iran and the United States have held indirect talks in Oman