Politics & Government News

2:42 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is in a Virginia detention center and facing deportation to Uganda

2:30 PM on Tuesday, August 26

2:29 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Utah is the latest state at the center of a national redistricting battle ahead of the 2026 midterms

1:52 PM on Tuesday, August 26

West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Tim Armstead has died

1:21 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order challenging a 1989 Supreme Court decision that protects flag burning as free speech

12:45 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Activists have raised concerns about the health of Belarusian journalist Aleh Suprunyuk, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison

12:38 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump, the NFL and scores of stars in the entertainment and sports worlds have reacted to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement

12:38 PM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump has sparked backlash from some members of his loyal base by saying his administration would allow 600,000 Chinese students into American universities

12:20 PM on Tuesday, August 26

A plan to restructure over $9 billion in debt for Puerto Rico's power company has hit a big snag

12:17 PM on Tuesday, August 26

A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

12:05 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Final election numbers show that Bolivian voters practically threw the long-governing party out of Congress in elections earlier this month

11:57 AM on Tuesday, August 26

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's attempt to continue a legal battle involving an ex-aide's sexual harassment claim has been rejected by a judge

11:39 AM on Tuesday, August 26

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other top Democrats are warning President Donald Trump to stay out of the cities they run

11:04 AM on Tuesday, August 26

8:01 AM on Tuesday, August 26

A federal appeals court says it's unconstitutional for Pennsylvania to throw out mail-in ballots simply because the voter didn’t write an accurate date on the return envelope

7:41 AM on Tuesday, August 26

The White House says a judge's decision to throw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against all federal judges in Maryland is a direct assault on the president’s ability to enforce immigration laws

5:39 AM on Tuesday, August 26

President Donald Trump's announcement that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has rattled financial markets worldwide

12:27 AM on Tuesday, August 26

A diplomat says that representatives of three European countries threatening to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program failed to agree with their Iranian counterpart on how to avoid the move, just days ahead of a deadline

11:29 AM on Monday, August 25

The University of Florida has selected an interim president after their last choice was rejected by the state Board of Governors that oversees the university system

11:20 AM on Thursday, August 21