Politics & Government News

8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Michigan U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin is in Iowa to support Democratic congressional candidates and gather insights on how Democrats could win over President Donald Trump's supporters

6:29 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Texas health regulators have told Camp Mystic’s owners they are investigating hundreds of complaints following last year’s deadly floods that killed 27 girls

6:18 PM on Tuesday, April 7

5:25 PM on Tuesday, April 7

A federal judge has ruled that the abortion drug mifepristone can continue to be dispensed by mail to people with prescriptions, at least for now

5:20 PM on Tuesday, April 7

The president who yearned for a Nobel Peace Prize and once reveled in the appearance of solving conflicts turned to the language of annihilation as he struggled to find a resolution to his war in Iran

5:10 PM on Tuesday, April 7

The Department of Homeland Security intends to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia despite a new agreement with Costa Rica to accept deportees who cannot legally be returned to their home countries

4:15 PM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump’s recent statements of intent about his administration’s plans for Iran have raised questions about international law

4:07 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has toured North Carolina areas devastated by Hurricane Helene in 2024

3:10 PM on Tuesday, April 7

The Justice Department’s new leader says “nobody” except President Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was replaced as attorney general last week

2:28 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Tehran residents are rushing to stock up on bottled water and charge cellphones, flashlights and portable power banks as the hours tick down to Trump’s latest ultimatum for a deal in the war with Iran

1:54 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Hundreds of Cuban women have gathered in Havana to decry a U.S. energy embargo and other measures imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump that are strangling the Caribbean island

1:30 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Donald Trump Jr. has lashed out at the European Union

12:36 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Progressive Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is teaming up with online streamer Hasan Piker for campus events that are already sparking backlash

11:23 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Officials at the Universities of Wisconsin have fired the system’s president after he refused their offer to quietly resign and said they never gave a clear reason why he should

10:02 AM on Tuesday, April 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has confirmed that American journalist Shelley Kittleson, who was kidnapped last week in Iraq, has been released

9:46 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz

12:55 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war

12:08 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Democratic-backed candidate Chris Taylor has won election to the Wisconsin Supreme Court

12:07 AM on Tuesday, April 7

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia

12:01 AM on Tuesday, April 7

President Donald Trump is suspending his threatened attack against Iran less than two hours before the deadline the president set for Tehran