Politics & Government News

2:21 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump says he's ready to restart U.S. mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River water sharing

1:42 PM on Friday, January 16

The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans

1:21 PM on Friday, January 16

The former mayor of a New Jersey town and its current leaders are denying claims that the town directed its police to keep minorities out of the community

1:19 PM on Friday, January 16

National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year

1:12 PM on Friday, January 16

Republicans in Congress are supporting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank

12:34 PM on Friday, January 16

A Southern California college student who says he was blinded in one eye by a projectile fired by a federal officer during a protest says he no longer has depth perception and lost the ability to drive

11:35 AM on Friday, January 16

Gov. Gavin Newsom is intensifying efforts to hold California cities and counties accountable for homelessness funding

11:28 AM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve

11:15 AM on Friday, January 16

Social media users are falsely claiming that Enrique Tarrio, a former Proud Boys leader, is working as an officer for the federal agency

11:14 AM on Friday, January 16

A federal judge has ruled that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume

11:03 AM on Friday, January 16

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro

10:24 AM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump is thanking Iran for not following through on executions of more than 800 political prisoners

10:22 AM on Friday, January 16

A flight with 231 Venezuelan migrants deported from Phoenix has arrived in Caracas

10:13 AM on Friday, January 16

The White House has released the names of some of the leaders who will play a role in overseeing next steps in Gaza

9:58 AM on Friday, January 16

Virginia’s Democratic-led General Assembly is advancing a constitutional amendment to allow redistricting ahead of the midterm elections

9:45 AM on Friday, January 16

CIA Director John Ratcliffe has met with Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez

9:44 AM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, a White House official said

9:06 AM on Friday, January 16

8:04 AM on Friday, January 16

A Massachusetts college student mistakenly deported to Honduras said the experience left her in shock and numb and wondering why she had been detained

7:41 AM on Friday, January 16

The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations at schools and universities