Politics & Government News

7:00 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

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President Donald Trump has issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado elections administrator convicted of a data breach scheme tied to false claims of election fraud

5:35 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore billions in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding

4:55 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to block states from regulating artificial intelligence

4:37 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation

4:31 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul wins royal approval to dissolve Parliament and hold elections early next year

4:03 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

A Democratic Senator says the head of the Federal Aviation Administration has not sold off his multimillion-dollar stake in the airline he led since 1999 despite a promise to do so as part of his ethics agreement

3:46 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

The U.S. Mint has unveiled designs for coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence

2:57 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

The House voted to repeal President Donald Trump's executive order from earlier this year that aimed to remove collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees

2:41 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

The commission that oversees public television in Arkansas has voted to sever ties with PBS, making it the first state to end its contract with the broadcast giant

2:33 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Federal Reserve’s governing board unanimously approved the reappointment of nearly all of the Fed’s 12 regional bank presidents, a group that has come under scrutiny by the Trump administration

12:29 PM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

A grand jury has declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James

11:34 AM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to remove certain items from gift shops

11:16 AM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three nephews of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro

11:09 AM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

A presidentially appointed council's meeting to announce reforms to FEMA was unexpectedly canceled, according to two people familiar with the matter

10:53 AM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

A man accused of killing a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train has appeared in federal court

10:11 AM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

Senators from both parties are pushing to change a defense bill after crash investigators and victims' families warned it could undo key safety reforms

5:01 AM on Thursday, December 11, 2025

The Senate has rejected two partisan health bills on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year

9:06 PM on Wednesday, December 10, 2025

The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk has made his first in-person court appearance as his attorneys push to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case

9:04 PM on Wednesday, December 10, 2025

In a resounding rejection of a pressure campaign from the White House, Indiana Republican Senators voted down a new congressional map created to give the GOP an advantage in the upcoming 2026 election