Politics & Government News

6:54 PM on Tuesday, September 2

The United Nations says at least 19 U.N. employees were detained by Iranian-backed Houthis during weekend raids on U.N. offices in Yemen’s capital

5:17 PM on Tuesday, September 2

The California Legislature has passed a bill requiring schools to create plans for notifying parents and teachers when immigration enforcement is on campus

4:00 PM on Tuesday, September 2

A Colorado sheriff’s deputy disciplined for helping federal immigration agents make arrests has resigned

3:29 PM on Tuesday, September 2

The House Oversight Committee has publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell

3:03 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Jim Walden, an independent candidate in New York City’s mayoral race, has suspended his campaign

3:03 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump claims a video showing items being tossed from a White House window is fake and created with AI, though his press team earlier seemed to confirm the video's authenticity

2:52 PM on Tuesday, September 2

In a nod to continuing collaboration, the mayor of Washington, D

12:33 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump says he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both cities

12:26 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela that was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang

11:50 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Federal grand jurors in the nation’s capital have refused to indict two people who were charged separately with threatening to kill President Donald Trump

10:58 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Eight people were killed and 50 others were wounded over the Labor Day weekend in dozens of shootings in Chicago

10:49 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press

10:38 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Governor Tim Walz plans to call a special session of the Minnesota Legislature to consider tougher gun laws after last week's shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis

10:35 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Security, sovereignty, tariffs, trade, drugs and migration will top Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s agenda this week on his third trip to Latin America since becoming chief U.S. diplomat

10:10 AM on Tuesday, September 2

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection next year

8:32 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Rudy Giuliani says he experienced the most pain he'd ever felt when he was in a highway car crash last weekend

7:33 AM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump has announced that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama

5:48 AM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump announced that U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Colorado to Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary home

9:01 PM on Monday, September 1

The verdict and sentencing phase has started in the trial of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro

4:08 PM on Monday, September 1

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Beijing to attend a military parade with his Chinese and Russian counterparts, an event that could demonstrate potential three-way unity against the United States