Politics & Government News

10:01 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Prosecutors say former Sen. Bob Menendez's wife should serve at least seven years in prison for playing a pivotal role in a bribery scheme that put the Democrat behind bars for 11 years

8:08 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Hundreds of people have been arrested since President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown flooded the nation’s capital with federal agents and troops

7:10 PM on Tuesday, August 26

The Justice Department has reached settlements with a group of current and former FBI agents who have said they were disciplined for invoking their political beliefs or clashing with supervisors about approaches to investigations

6:40 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Days after getting his massive civil fraud penalty thrown out, President Donald Trump asked New York’s highest court on Tuesday to overturn his other punishments, including a multiyear ban on him and his two eldest sons holding corporate leadership positions

6:21 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Voting-rights advocates are suing to overturn all of the redistricting plans drawn by Texas Republicans meant to favor Republicans in 2026 midterm elections, saying the map weakens the electoral influence of Black voters

5:55 PM on Tuesday, August 26

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5:42 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in a Virginia detention center and facing deportation to Uganda

5:30 PM on Tuesday, August 26

5:29 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Utah is the latest state at the center of a national redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterms

4:52 PM on Tuesday, August 26

West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Tim Armstead has died

3:56 PM on Tuesday, August 26

A whistleblower says more than 300 million Americans' Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight

3:52 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump’s threats to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago sent ripples through America’s third-largest city as residents defended their home against Trump’s escalating rhetoric toward violent crime, including claims Chicago is a “killing field.”

3:38 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump has sparked backlash from some members of his loyal base by saying his administration would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities

3:17 PM on Tuesday, August 26

A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

11:46 AM on Tuesday, August 26

Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook's lawyer says she'll sue President Donald Trump's administration to try to prevent him from firing her

11:01 AM on Tuesday, August 26

A federal appeals court says it's unconstitutional for Pennsylvania to throw out mail-in ballots simply because the voter didn’t write an accurate date on the return envelope

10:41 AM on Tuesday, August 26

The White House says a judge's decision to throw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against all federal judges in Maryland is a direct assault on the president’s ability to enforce immigration laws

8:39 AM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump's announcement that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has rattled financial markets worldwide

5:56 AM on Tuesday, August 26

Sri Lanka’s former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been granted bail after being arrested over allegations of misusing public funds while in office

3:27 AM on Tuesday, August 26

A diplomat says that representatives of three European countries threatening to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed to agree with their Iranian counterpart on how to avoid the move, just days ahead of a deadline