Politics & Government News

6:10 PM on Thursday, October 23

The U.S. military has flown a pair of supersonic, heavy bombers up to the coast of Venezuela

5:32 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump will be in Japan and South Korea next week and he's expected to promote an epic windfall in investments for U.S. factories and projects

4:34 PM on Thursday, October 23

Democrats in Virginia are joining the national redistricting battle over U.S. House seats

4:06 PM on Thursday, October 23

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is challenging U.S. President Donald Trump to make a friendly wager on the outcome of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers

2:27 PM on Thursday, October 23

2:27 PM on Thursday, October 23

2:18 PM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Homeland Security officials say a 21-year-old semitruck driver accused of being under the influence of drugs and causing a fiery crash that killed three people on a southern California freeway is in the country illegally

2:14 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s most sensitive wilderness areas

12:46 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

11:47 AM on Thursday, October 23

A federal food aid program that helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown

11:23 AM on Thursday, October 23

Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base

11:06 AM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. President Donald Trump has done a turnaround on sanctions against Russia, taking aim at Russia's two biggest oil companies and the billions of dollars they reap for Moscow's war against Ukraine

11:05 AM on Thursday, October 23

Members of Congress are divided largely along party lines on the demolition of the East Wing of the White House to make room for a 90,000-square-foot ballroom that President Donald Trump wants to build

9:55 AM on Thursday, October 23

Associated Press photos show the entire White House East Wing has been demolished as President Donald Trump moves ahead with building a ballroom

9:15 AM on Thursday, October 23

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race

8:19 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located

5:27 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao

4:04 AM on Thursday, October 23

The hundreds of National Guard troops still deployed to Washington, D.C., have unnerved some residents

3:46 AM on Thursday, October 23

European Union leaders are seeking a more active role in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after being sidelined from a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas

9:04 PM on Wednesday, October 22

A growing number of people protesting against President Donald Trump's administration are wearing inflatable costumes at rallies