Politics & Government News

6:54 PM on Friday, March 27

A federal judge has ruled that the immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” must provide people detained there with better access to their attorneys

6:54 PM on Friday, March 27

Georgia Republicans have passed a bill stripping party labels from most local election races in metro Atlanta’s biggest counties

5:05 PM on Friday, March 27

Idaho lawmakers passed a sweeping bathroom bill Friday that makes it a crime for transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender identity

3:39 PM on Friday, March 27

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's assertion that the U.S. wants Ukraine to hand over territory to Russia to receive American security guarantees in any ceasefire plan

3:28 PM on Friday, March 27

Mexico’s government says it has identified signs of life for as many as a third of the country’s 130,000 registered missing people

3:23 PM on Friday, March 27

As gas prices approach $4 a gallon nationally amid the conflict in Iran, some lawmakers are pushing to suspend the federal gasoline tax

3:01 PM on Friday, March 27

California lawmakers have voted to audit the state’s joint intelligence “fusion centers” after claims of illegal data sharing and invasive surveillance

2:40 PM on Friday, March 27

A Missouri judge has allowed the use of new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump

2:33 PM on Friday, March 27

2:03 PM on Friday, March 27

Long-serving Missouri Republican Rep. Sam Graves has decided not to run for reelection

1:52 PM on Friday, March 27

The California attorney general and a voting right groups have launched two legal challenges to halt a ballot seizure by a Republican sheriff in Riverside County

12:54 PM on Friday, March 27

A new Texas report says child care scholarships have very low improper payments

12:28 PM on Friday, March 27

President Donald Trump says the American air travel system has reached a "breaking point."

11:59 AM on Friday, March 27

Vice President JD Vance has held the inaugural meeting of a new anti-fraud task force he’s leading as the Trump administration seeks to show it’s cracking down on potential misuse of social programs

11:56 AM on Friday, March 27

A pro-Iranian hacking group is claiming to have hacked an account of FBI Director Kash Patel and has posted online what appear to be years-old photographs of him, along with a work resume and other personal documents

9:46 AM on Friday, March 27

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida is maintaining her innocence following the House Ethics Committee’s finding that the Democratic congresswoman committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards

8:27 AM on Friday, March 27

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12:05 AM on Friday, March 27

Deep divisions were apparent over the Iran war as top diplomats from the Group of Seven countries have met in France

4:14 PM on Thursday, March 26

Posts circulating on social media claim driver’s licenses could not be used for voter registration in federal elections under the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering