Politics & Government News

2:52 PM on Friday, September 5

The Trump administration is fighting Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bid to apply for asylum

2:50 PM on Friday, September 5

A former Boston city councilor has been sentenced to a month in prison after she pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges in a kickback scheme involving a relative

2:44 PM on Friday, September 5

Democrats and Republicans are testing dueling playbooks in fall elections that will decide the leadership of Virginia and New Jersey — and perhaps a new direction for the parties heading into next year’s midterms

2:39 PM on Friday, September 5

Riot police in northern Serbia have fired tear gas at peaceful protesters demanding free elections and justice

2:35 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage

2:31 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will host next year’s Group of 20 summit at his golf club in southern Florida

2:22 PM on Friday, September 5

Trump says US will host next year's Group of 20 summit at his golf club in Miami

2:16 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about what to call the military agency

2:15 PM on Friday, September 5

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will not end his reelection campaign

2:13 PM on Friday, September 5

Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump

1:48 PM on Friday, September 5

The Trump administration is set to allow a West African leader accused of flagrant corruption to travel to the United States for this month’s U.N. General Assembly and cities outside New York that he has previously been barred from visiting

1:37 PM on Friday, September 5

CBS says it will no longer allow editing of newsmaker interviews on its Sunday morning show “Face the Nation.”

12:57 PM on Friday, September 5

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States

11:16 AM on Friday, September 5

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said again that he won’t end his reelection campaign

10:18 AM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at rebranding the Department of Defense as the Department of War

9:51 AM on Friday, September 5

The attorneys general of California and Delaware have expressed serious concerns about the safety of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens

8:31 AM on Friday, September 5

Venezuelan mothers and grandmothers are appealing to U.S. first lady Melania Trump for help reuniting with their children

7:00 AM on Friday, September 5

A congressional investigation finds the Pentagon has funded research involving collaboration with Chinese entities linked to China's defense sector

5:42 AM on Friday, September 5

According to a Homeland Security official, some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles

3:34 AM on Friday, September 5

U.S. immigration officials say some 475 people were detained during an immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company Hyundai manufactures electric vehicles