Politics & Government News

1:08 PM on Friday, May 15

The Trump administration wants to seize 14 acres of land outside El Paso that's owned by the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to install border barriers

12:51 PM on Friday, May 15

A $25 million grant to support struggling hospitals in California has become law just days after its introduction

11:31 AM on Friday, May 15

Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines

11:21 AM on Friday, May 15

Fisk University President Agenia Clark has announced a $900 million plan to transform the campus in Nashville, Tennessee

10:38 AM on Friday, May 15

The Pentagon is drawing down thousands of troops in Europe by stopping units from deploying to Poland and Germany as opposed to yanking those already stationed there

10:25 AM on Friday, May 15

Social media CEOs have been called to testify before Congress amid growing pressure to protect young users

10:02 AM on Friday, May 15

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed legislation banning certain semi-automatic firearms

9:40 AM on Friday, May 15

Forty-six nations in Europe and beyond have approved new approaches for handling irregular migration

9:30 AM on Friday, May 15

8:51 AM on Friday, May 15

Peruvian voters are set to choose their next president between Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez

8:33 AM on Friday, May 15

Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee is ending his bid for reelection

8:13 AM on Friday, May 15

The Texas Supreme Court has refused to declare that Democratic state lawmakers who briefly left the state last year in a quorum break to stop a vote on new congressional voting maps pushed by President Donald Trump vacated their offices

7:56 AM on Friday, May 15

President Donald Trump plans to build an exhibit of statues featuring prominent Americans along the Potomac River

6:18 AM on Friday, May 15

The Trump administration has deported 15 Latin Americans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite U.S. court orders protecting them from deportation to their homelands

2:54 AM on Friday, May 15

Maldivian authorities have suspended a high-risk operation to recover the bodies of four Italian divers believed trapped inside a deep underwater cave, after one body was recovered the day before

2:35 AM on Friday, May 15

Britain's government faces uncertainty as the Labour Party grapples with internal turmoil

2:00 AM on Friday, May 15

Democratic leaders are embracing independent candidates in red states where their party brand struggles

9:02 PM on Thursday, May 14

A bungled message from a South Texas housing authority prompted mass flight

5:00 PM on Thursday, May 14

President Donald Trump says he’s not yet made a decision on whether a major sale of U.S. arms to Taiwan can move forward following his three-day visit to China

1:00 PM on Thursday, May 14

When Jerome Powell was sworn in as chair of the Federal Reserve eight years ago, economists worried that inflation and interest rates were too low and that too few Americans had jobs