Politics & Government News

3:28 PM on Thursday, October 30

A lawsuit filed by three Dallas residents seeks to strike down dozens of city ordinances they say violate a law that prevents Texas cities from adopting progressive policies

3:26 PM on Thursday, October 30

New Orleans faces deep cuts that could lead to furloughs or layoffs to address a $160 million budget shortfall

3:17 PM on Thursday, October 30

Buckingham Palace says that King Charles III is stripping his brother Prince Andrew of his remaining titles and evicting him from his royal residence

3:11 PM on Thursday, October 30

After months of posturing, arguing and threatening, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have essentially turned back the clock

3:10 PM on Thursday, October 30

Democrats and their allied groups are pouring in more money and sending in the national party chairman in the final week of campaigning for a Pennsylvania Supreme Court election

2:59 PM on Thursday, October 30

China’s promise to delay its newest restrictions on the export of the rare earths that are crucial to many high-tech products for one year as part of a trade agreement creates an opportunity for the U.S. and its allies

2:31 PM on Thursday, October 30

The Senate has passed a resolution that would undo many of President Donald Trump’s tariffs around the globe

2:01 PM on Thursday, October 30

12:53 PM on Thursday, October 30

The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday for a man arrested with guns and ammunition near former President Barack Obama's home

12:32 PM on Thursday, October 30

The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they'll be mostly white South Africans

11:59 AM on Thursday, October 30

Two prominent Republicans are urging the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit against Cisco

9:41 AM on Thursday, October 30

A federal judge in Boston seemed skeptical of the Trump administration's plan to stop funding the SNAP food aid program amid the government shutdown

6:35 AM on Thursday, October 30

Protests have erupted in Tanzania following a disputed election

6:08 AM on Thursday, October 30

U.S. President Donald Trump says he had an “amazing” meeting with China's top leader Xi Jinping that produced very important decisions

5:18 AM on Thursday, October 30

U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has apologized for renting out her London house without a license

3:56 AM on Thursday, October 30

Geert Wilders' far-right Party for Freedom and the centrist D66 have tied in the Dutch general election with 98% of votes counted

11:37 PM on Wednesday, October 29

President Donald Trump has appeared to suggest on social media that the U.S. resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time in three decades

11:00 PM on Wednesday, October 29

The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees it admits into the country to 7,500 and they will mostly be white South Africans

7:02 AM on Wednesday, October 29

Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found

4:44 PM on Monday, October 6

U.S. President Donald Trump is prioritizing a group of white South Africans in a dramatically decreased quota of refugees allowed into the United States this fiscal year