Politics & Government News

3:21 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Andrew Cuomo is apologizing to New York City’s Jewish community for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he was governor

3:07 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Rohingya Muslims have pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives

3:02 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown

2:13 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has hinted that she may not be interested in running for president in 2028

1:40 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Citing the 9/11 attacks and other threats, a U.S. judge has blocked the federal government from cutting $34 million in funding to protect New York's transportation system from terrorist attacks

1:22 PM on Wednesday, October 1

1:17 PM on Wednesday, October 1

The American Civil Liberties Union chapter in Puerto Rico has sued the island’s justice secretary and its transportation and public works department over confidential information of immigrants lacking permanent legal status shared with federal agents

12:52 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Jane Fonda has revived an activist group from the Cold War era, originally backed by her father, Henry Fonda

12:46 PM on Wednesday, October 1

12:03 PM on Wednesday, October 1

The U.N. Security Council's approval for the creation of a so-called gang suppression force in Haiti has been met with wary resignation in the small Caribbean state

11:56 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Thousands of demonstrators demanding subsidies on food, electricity and other services have clashed with police in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

11:38 AM on Wednesday, October 1

President Donald Trump got a significant amount of blame during the last partial government shutdown, which took place toward the end of his first term after he forced a shutdown over border wall funding — but with Democrats embracing the shutdown fight this time, the outcome could be different

10:52 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has been sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges

9:57 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Crowds of people loaded onto boats to tour the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island with no immediate signs of the government shutdown that is triggering the furlough of about two-thirds of National Park Service employees

9:36 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A network of medical clinics that serves low-income residents in Maine says it is shutting down its primary care operations because of Trump administration cuts to abortion providers

8:40 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Hundreds of migrants have embarked on a protest march in southern Mexico in support of an aim to legalize their immigration status and find more work opportunities after a long frustrating wait near the Guatemala border

7:40 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The Trump’s administration is citing the government shutdown in explaining why it's holding up roughly $18 billion for a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey and an extension of the city’s Second Avenue subway

9:05 PM on Tuesday, September 30

The government shutdown means further disruption for the U.S. Education Department, which has seen half of its employees laid off by the Republican Trump administration

9:01 PM on Tuesday, September 30

The federal government was thrown into a shutdown with no easy endgame in sight

9:12 PM on Monday, September 29

Washington Post journalist Lally Weymouth has died at the age of 82