Politics & Government News

4:01 PM on Friday, October 31

Illinois lawmakers have approved legislation prohibiting immigration arrests near courthouses

4:01 PM on Friday, October 31

Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities are causing delays at airports as the government shutdown nears the one-month mark

4:00 PM on Friday, October 31

Coast Guard Island — a California Coast Guard base located in the Oakland Estuary — was the focus of protests of last week's planned-then-abandoned surge of federal immigration officials

3:34 PM on Friday, October 31

The SNAP program has been a major piece of the U.S. social safety network since it launched as the food stamp program in 1964

3:02 PM on Friday, October 31

Military officers in Guinea-Bissau have been arrested for allegedly planning a coup

3:00 PM on Friday, October 31

Wisconsin’s Democratic governor has signed a bipartisan bill that would allow candidates to remove their names from the ballot

2:13 PM on Friday, October 31

A Texas program intended to help small businesses owned by women, minorities and disabled veterans compete for government procurement contracts has been frozen by the Comptroller of Public Accounts

2:08 PM on Friday, October 31

Wisconsin has become the 36th state to limit cellphones and other electronic devices in school

2:06 PM on Friday, October 31

1:52 PM on Friday, October 31

Israel’s top military prosecutor has resigned after admitting to leaking a video showing soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee

1:19 PM on Friday, October 31

President Donald Trump has declined to say whether he plans to resume underground nuclear detonation tests

1:18 PM on Friday, October 31

The campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Florida is suing Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration in the state’s Supreme Court

1:04 PM on Friday, October 31

Many people might be wondering how they can help their neighbors put food on the table with federal food aid set to be frozen on Nov. 1

12:42 PM on Friday, October 31

President Donald Trump wants Republicans in the Senate to kill a longstanding rule called the filibuster

10:03 AM on Friday, October 31

Two federal judge have ruled that the Trump administration must continue to fund the SNAP food aid program using contingency funds during the government shutdown

9:45 AM on Friday, October 31

President Donald Trump is calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster

9:25 AM on Friday, October 31

Federal judges have ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding SNAP during the government shutdown

8:38 AM on Friday, October 31

Illinois advocates have sued federal authorities over alleged inhumane conditions at a Chicago-area federal immigration facility

3:12 AM on Friday, October 31

Protests in Tanzania have entered their third day as the electoral body continues to announce the results of an election that sparked deadly demonstrations, leading to the government’s shutdown of the internet and the deployment of the military

12:10 AM on Friday, October 31

A Republican-led panel in Ohio has adopted new U.S. House districts, potentially boosting the GOP's chances of gaining two seats in next year's elections