Politics & Government News

5:35 PM on Friday, August 22

The Justice Department has released interview transcripts with Ghislaine Maxwell, where she speaks positively about Donald Trump, calling him a “gentleman in all respects.”

5:22 PM on Friday, August 22

A Wisconsin judge has declined to dismiss felony charges against two attorneys and a former aide to President Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork falsely claiming that the Republican had won the battleground state that year

5:14 PM on Friday, August 22

The Trump administration says it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional

5:09 PM on Friday, August 22

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights

5:09 PM on Friday, August 22

Trump administration says grants for Hispanic-serving colleges are unconstitutional and it won't defend them in court

4:49 PM on Friday, August 22

Colombia’s anti-government guerrillas have grown stronger under President Gustavo Petro’s three years in office

4:28 PM on Friday, August 22

Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has resigned after he failed to secure new sanctions against Israel over the war in Gaza

4:18 PM on Friday, August 22

Argentine police have raided over a dozen luxury homes and offices, including the headquarters of a national agency for disability benefits

3:54 PM on Friday, August 22

Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves has defended himself before lawmakers considering a petition to lift his immunity for prosecution on corruption charges

3:43 PM on Friday, August 22

A federal judge on Friday ordered Alabama lawmakers to draw a new legislative map that includes a new majority-Black Senate district near Montgomery or something close to it

3:22 PM on Friday, August 22

3:10 PM on Friday, August 22

AP sources: Hegseth fires general whose agency's initial intel assessment of damage to Iran nuclear sites angered Trump

3:08 PM on Friday, August 22

A jail release order from a Tennessee court requires Kilmar Abrego Garcia to travel directly to Maryland, where he'll be in home detention with his brother as his custodian

3:04 PM on Friday, August 22

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and a local sheriff are calling for a county coroner to resign after state inspectors found about 20 decomposing bodies behind a hidden door in a funeral home he owned

2:42 PM on Friday, August 22

In Cedar Rapids, Grant Wood painted “American Gothic,” the iconic portrait of a man and a woman standing in front of a white frame house

2:38 PM on Friday, August 22

The oldest surviving place of worship for Muslims in the United States was erected in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, almost a century ago by immigrants from present-day Lebanon

2:21 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump says that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will happen on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington

11:56 AM on Friday, August 22

Canada is dropping retaliatory tariffs to match U.S. tariff exemptions for goods covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada trade pact

5:54 AM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to get Russia and Ukraine closer to making peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy

8:33 AM on Thursday, August 21