Politics & Government News

3:23 PM on Tuesday, October 7

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to fill a critical vacancy at the top agency for worker rights, restoring it to the full power needed to deepen his overhaul of civil rights enforcement

2:28 PM on Tuesday, October 7

President Donald Trump’s efforts to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities — including Los Angeles; Portland, Oregon; and Chicago — over the objections of Democratic mayors and governors have prompted a host of questions about the president’s authority and who controls the Guard

2:16 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions

1:29 PM on Tuesday, October 7

Democrats say fallout from the Trump administration’s aggressive tactics on the government shutdown could give them a welcome boost in the only two governors’ races on the ballot this year

11:14 AM on Tuesday, October 7

10:57 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Three years after the federal government listed a tiny Nevada toad on the endangered species list, a geothermal company seeking to develop a renewable power project near the toad's only known habitat in Northern Nevada is suing the government to challenge the listing

10:04 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Democratic governors from California and Illinois are threatening to leave the National Governors Association unless it denounces President Donald Trump's troop deployments to states

9:42 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Costa Rica’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal has asked the National Assembly to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his immunity

9:36 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Two men have been wrongly charged under a Florida immigration law that’s currently suspended

8:33 AM on Tuesday, October 7

President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown

8:16 AM on Tuesday, October 7

The European Union has proposed cutting free-trade quotas on steel by 47%, adding significant tariffs on imports from countries like China, India, Turkey and the United Kingdom

7:57 AM on Tuesday, October 7

Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has decided not to run for governor and will instead seek reelection to a third term

5:42 AM on Tuesday, October 7

The newly elected mayor of a town in western Germany has been found with serious stab wounds

9:12 PM on Monday, October 6

To hear party leaders talk, the seventh day of the government shutdown sounded a lot like the first

9:09 PM on Monday, October 6

A majority of Supreme Court justices seem to be leaning in favor of a Christian counselor who is challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights

9:04 PM on Monday, October 6

Attorney General Pam Bondi has repeatedly deflected questions while seeking to defend herself during a combative congressional hearing in the face of growing criticism that she's turning the law enforcement agency into a weapon to seek vengeance against President Donald Trump’s political opponents

9:02 PM on Monday, October 6

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visited Minnesota on Tuesday as part of a tour marking the 200th anniversary of organized emigration from his homeland to the U.S. The crown prince began the day in Minneapolis at Norway House, which brings contemporary Norway to the U.S. through arts, commerce and culture

9:19 PM on Sunday, October 5

The fight for control of the U.S. House is underway in California

10:49 AM on Friday, October 3

10:26 AM on Friday, October 3

Federal officials have reported the arrests of 13 people protesting near an immigration facility outside Chicago