Politics & Government News

4:47 PM on Saturday, October 4

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland

4:43 PM on Saturday, October 4

Federal judge temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon

3:17 PM on Saturday, October 4

Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general has been widely condemned for text messages from 2022 that revealed him suggesting that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.”

1:52 PM on Saturday, October 4

Mexico’s Security Ministry says they have arrested an alleged local leader of the Tren de Aragua gang in Mexico City

1:19 PM on Saturday, October 4

More than 600 couples have married simultaneously in Asunción, Paraguay

1:04 PM on Saturday, October 4

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a new Trump administration policy to detain migrant children in adult facilities once they turn 18

12:45 PM on Saturday, October 4

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: How does the shutdown impact National Guard troops

12:11 PM on Saturday, October 4

President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard members to Chicago, where on the same day Border Patrol agents shot a woman they said tried to run them over

12:11 PM on Saturday, October 4

Gov. JB Pritzker says Trump administration gave 'ultimatum' and plans to federalize 300 Illinois National Guard members

10:46 AM on Saturday, October 4

Georgia's police have used water cannons and pepper spray to push back protesters who tried to storm the presidential palace

9:54 AM on Saturday, October 4

Both Israel and now Hamas have signaled support for the new U.S. plan to end the war in Gaza and release all remaining hostages there

9:50 AM on Saturday, October 4

Populist billionaire Andrej Babiš wins Czech parliamentary election, official results show

6:42 AM on Saturday, October 4

A federal judge has concluded that the Department of Justice’s prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia on human smuggling charges could amount to illegal retaliation

5:21 AM on Saturday, October 4

Protests have erupted in Morocco, driven by young people demanding change

5:19 AM on Saturday, October 4

U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade

4:40 AM on Saturday, October 4

A monumental Supreme Court term is set to begin with major tests of presidential power on the agenda

2:44 AM on Saturday, October 4

Populist Czech billionaire Andrej Babiš has won a parliamentary election, marking a political comeback

9:02 PM on Friday, October 3

Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk

1:41 PM on Friday, October 3

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Have agencies violated the Hatch Act by using Democrat-blaming language online in discussing the shutdown

1:50 PM on Monday, September 29

On Friday, 200 Oregon National Guard troops were federalized by President Donald Trump, after he said the city of Portland had become a “war zone.”