Politics & Government News

8:21 PM on Thursday, August 21

The top U.N. envoy for Syria is warning that its transition remains “on a knife-edge” and violence could resume at any moment in the southern city of Sweida, which saw deadly clashes last month

7:11 PM on Thursday, August 21

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs legislation setting November election on US House map designed to boost Democrats

6:54 PM on Thursday, August 21

A $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage after the 2020 presidential election focuses on the roles of hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs in spreading false stories about fraud in Democrat Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump

6:15 PM on Thursday, August 21

California Legislature votes to set November special election on new US House map favoring Democrats

5:26 PM on Thursday, August 21

Before his return to the White House this year, President Donald Trump faced a slew of criminal charges and lawsuits that threatened his finances and freedom

4:48 PM on Thursday, August 21

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts

4:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut nearly $800 million in health research funding in anti-DEI push

4:09 PM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is blaming renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for skyrocketing energy costs

4:05 PM on Thursday, August 21

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia

3:47 PM on Thursday, August 21

A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, has been unlawfully serving as the the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey

3:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Federal inspectors will assume direct oversight of a Boar's Head deli meat plant when it reopens after an deadly listeria outbreak

2:45 PM on Thursday, August 21

Brazilian federal police accuse former president Jair Bolsonaro of receiving large sums of money without apparent justification between March of 2023 and February of 2024, potentially adding to the embattled former leader’s legal woes

2:25 PM on Thursday, August 21

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida

1:46 PM on Thursday, August 21

Orlando officials have denounced the removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub

12:38 PM on Thursday, August 21

A proposal to build a water-guzzling data center near Tucson, Arizona, led the city to put some regulations on water use

10:43 AM on Thursday, August 21

President Donald Trump is declaring victory after an appeals court threw out the massive civil fraud penalty against him

10:09 AM on Thursday, August 21

A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is among seven people facing new charges in the corruption investigation that has swirled around City Hall for two years

7:16 AM on Thursday, August 21

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice

3:20 AM on Thursday, August 21

Uganda's foreign ministry says the African country has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors

5:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage