Politics & Government News

4:42 PM on Friday, September 26

Supreme Court keeps in place Trump funding freeze that threatens billions of dollars in foreign aid

4:24 PM on Friday, September 26

Atlanta’s airport has forfeited $37.5 million in federal grants after refusing to disavow diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

4:21 PM on Friday, September 26

2:02 PM on Friday, September 26

Over the last five months, Florida law enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a U.S. Border Patrol official announced Friday

12:36 PM on Friday, September 26

The Washington attorney who brokered book deals for Barack Obama, George W. Bush and dozens of other government leaders has died at age 79

12:30 PM on Friday, September 26

Cuba announces the death of Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black Liberation Army militant sought by US since 1979

12:22 PM on Friday, September 26

Minnesota is grappling with a political deadlock over gun control after a church shooting in August left two children dead and 21 injured

12:16 PM on Friday, September 26

This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist

11:59 AM on Friday, September 26

Chinese authorities have detained Zhang Yadi, a 22-year-old student, on suspicion of inciting separatism

11:49 AM on Friday, September 26

After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her homeland was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the alarming act of violence has ignited bitter racial and political rhetoric about crime victims and perpetrators in America

11:25 AM on Friday, September 26

For two weeks, Memphis has been bracing for an influx of National Guard troops after President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy them to the city

9:57 AM on Friday, September 26

Moldova’s electoral commission has barred two pro-Russian parties from participating in this weekend's parliamentary election

8:02 AM on Friday, September 26

The United Nations has added 68 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

6:34 AM on Friday, September 26

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still “avoidable.”

5:02 AM on Friday, September 26

European defense ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, track and intercept drones violating Europe’s airspace

1:19 AM on Friday, September 26

A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children who came to the U.S. alone

12:16 AM on Friday, September 26

China has opened an investigation into whether Mexico's import tariffs are a trade barrier

9:03 PM on Thursday, September 25

Former FBI Director James Comey might not be the only critic of President Donald Trump to face charges

8:28 PM on Thursday, September 25

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards

11:59 AM on Tuesday, September 23