Politics & Government News

4:27 PM on Tuesday, March 31

An appeals court panel has suspended a federal judge’s order for the Trump administration to bring hundreds of Voice of America employees back to work from paid leave

4:23 PM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump entered his war of choice against Iran without consulting global allies

4:18 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Environmentalist groups say Mexico’s government lied about the origins of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, accusations authorities promptly denied

4:05 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge in Rhode Island has ruled that the Trump administration's effort to change the criteria for using tens of millions of dollars in funding to aid homeless people was unlawful

3:37 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Thousands of additional U.S. troops are heading to the Middle East as the Trump administration has insisted that progress has been made in talks with Iran and has threatened to escalate the war if a deal is not reached soon

3:33 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge has thrown out a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing Colorado and Denver of interfering with the enforcement of immigration laws

2:25 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Prosecutors and defense attorneys have made their closing arguments in the trial of a man charged in the 2024 shooting death of New York City police officer

1:46 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge has ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination

1:06 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Stephen Lewis, Canada’s former ambassador to the United Nations, a lifelong social activist and a former politician, has died

12:14 PM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to suspend construction of a $400 million ballroom after it demolished the East Wing of the White House

11:11 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A federal judge has agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service

11:05 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A three-judge panel in Wisconsin has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Democratic voters that sought to redraw the battleground state’s Republican-friendly congressional boundary lines ahead of the November midterm election

10:50 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Cuba’s deepening economic crisis is pushing struggling families into hunger and forcing them to rely on donations and the black market

6:56 AM on Tuesday, March 31

The aid group Doctors Without Border says that sexual violence against women and girls is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan’s fierce conflict between the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

6:39 AM on Tuesday, March 31

Three fired FBI agents have sued to try to get their jobs back, saying in a class action lawsuit they were illegally punished for their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat

6:00 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A European Union official says that violent incidents and irregularities that have been reported during local elections in Serbia were “unacceptable.”

5:52 AM on Tuesday, March 31

A Russian oil tanker has reached Cuba with a huge shipment, easing a dire fuel shortage after months without deliveries

9:04 PM on Monday, March 30

Candidates in Utah are for the first time fighting to outflank each other on the left after a redistricting shakeup gave Democrats a prime pickup opportunity in the red state

9:01 PM on Monday, March 30

Trump administration officials are exempting oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act

5:34 AM on Thursday, March 26