Politics & Government News

9:07 PM on Monday, March 30

A proposal in Georgia could allow DNA to be collected from immigrants taken into custody for minor offenses

7:01 PM on Monday, March 30

A Florida airport has been cleared to be renamed after President Donald Trump, hours before the president separately revealed plans for a Miami skyscraper planned to house his presidential library

6:30 PM on Monday, March 30

5:37 PM on Monday, March 30

A California sheriff who seized more than half a million election ballots says he has paused the election fraud investigation

4:46 PM on Monday, March 30

Lawyers for Rep. Eric Swalwell are demanding that FBI Director Kash Patel immediately end any effort to release decade-old files from an investigation involving the California Democrat and a suspected Chinese spy that resulted in no criminal charges

4:02 PM on Monday, March 30

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether a New York City council member and her sister accepted bribes linked to the appropriation of city funds to a migrant shelter provider

3:30 PM on Monday, March 30

Joe and Jill Biden have added a pair of black Labrador-mix puppies named Boo and Scout to the former president’s home in Delaware, adopting the sibling dogs after they were rescued from a shelter in Tennessee

2:39 PM on Monday, March 30

There will be no Charlie Kirk highway in his home state of Arizona

2:17 PM on Monday, March 30

Former Suriname President Chandrikapersad Santokhi has died

1:05 PM on Monday, March 30

The Army has launched an administrative review after two AH-64 Apache helicopters on a training run maneuvered near the hillside home of Kid Rock

11:36 AM on Monday, March 30

A Portland soccer tournament brought girls from immigrant and refugee families together to push back against fear tied to federal immigration enforcement

11:34 AM on Monday, March 30

Vermont is defending its first-in-the-nation law that aims to make fossil fuel companies help pay for damage caused by climate change

10:03 AM on Monday, March 30

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has been sworn in for a third term three months after a disputed election

8:03 AM on Monday, March 30

The Transportation Safety Administration says most of its officers received most of their backpay Monday for working during the shutdown

6:19 AM on Monday, March 30

U.S. lawmakers visiting Taiwan say the United States supports efforts by Taiwan's government to pass a $40 billion special defense budget that is being stalled in the opposition-controlled parliament

5:30 AM on Monday, March 30

Two Arkansas Republicans with competing visions on how best to implement President Donald Trump’s agenda to overhaul elections and voting will vie for their party’s nomination for the state’s top elections job on Tuesday

1:09 AM on Monday, March 30

Israel’s parliament has passed the budget in a marathon overnight session, likely ensuring that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will complete its term until the fall

11:07 PM on Sunday, March 29

President Donald Trump says Iran faces massive damage to its energy system unless it quickly agrees to end the war

10:50 PM on Sunday, March 29

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening widespread destruction of Iran’s energy resources and other vital infrastructure, potentially including desalination plants that supply drinking water

4:09 AM on Friday, March 27

A law requiring that most materials in federally funded affordable housing are made in America is fully kicking in