Politics & Government News

8:10 PM on Tuesday, January 20

Air Force One has landed safely in DC area after minor electrical problem as Trump was flying to Switzerland

7:47 PM on Tuesday, January 20

Air Force One is returning to Washington area after flight experienced minor electrical issue, White House says

7:37 PM on Tuesday, January 20

Utah's Republican legislative leaders and Gov. Spencer Cox are saying they support a proposal to expand the state Supreme Court's five-judge panel to seven

5:39 PM on Tuesday, January 20

Virginia US attorney Lindsey Halligan, who sought indictments against Trump adversaries, is leaving her position

5:36 PM on Tuesday, January 20

President Donald Trump pledged in his inaugural address his government would apply the law fairly — unlike the way he said federal power had been turned against him

4:54 PM on Tuesday, January 20

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has announced a national election will be held Nov. 7

3:29 PM on Tuesday, January 20

Colombia’s president on Tuesday reduced wages for members of Congress by approximately 30%, as the South American nation faces a budget crunch and gets ready to hold elections in the first semester of this year

2:06 PM on Tuesday, January 20

Lindsey Halligan, who as a top Justice Department prosecutor pursued indictments against a pair of President Donald Trump’s adversaries, is leaving her position

1:48 PM on Tuesday, January 20

U.S. forces have boarded and taken control of a seventh oil tanker connected with Venezuela

1:05 PM on Tuesday, January 20

The Supreme Court seems likely to strike down Hawaii restrictions on carrying guns in stores in the justices’ latest firearm case since their landmark decision expanding Second Amendment rights

11:19 AM on Tuesday, January 20

Israeli settlers are celebrating the inauguration of a new settlement in the West Bank on land where Israel and the U.S. once hoped to build a hospital for Palestinian children

10:50 AM on Tuesday, January 20

Mexico's security minister says the country has sent 37 more cartel members to the United States

9:12 AM on Tuesday, January 20

Iran has warned Donald Trump not to take any action against the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the U.S. president called for an end to Khamenei’s near 40-year reign

8:44 AM on Tuesday, January 20

Federal prosecutors have served six grand jury subpoenas to Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded federal law enforcement during a sweeping immigration operation in Minneapolis-St. Paul area

7:52 AM on Tuesday, January 20

European leaders and California Gov. Gavin Newsom have expressed strong concerns at the World Economic Forum over the Greenland crisis and global trade issues

5:36 AM on Tuesday, January 20

A 6-year-old girl has survived Sunday's deadly train crash in southern Spain

5:27 AM on Tuesday, January 20

President Donald Trump meandered through a list of his administration’s accomplishments while speaking at a White House press briefing Tuesday

1:59 AM on Tuesday, January 20

Guards from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have abandoned a camp in northeast Syria, allowing detainees linked to the Islamic State group to escape

12:13 AM on Tuesday, January 20

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed Parliament's passing anti-hate speech and gun laws following a deadly shooting at a Jewish festival on Sydney's Bondi Beach last month

12:01 AM on Tuesday, January 20

President Donald Trump's push to control Greenland has sparked major tensions with Europe