Politics & Government News

2:45 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump says he has ordered the government to declassify and release all records on missing aviator Amelia Earhart

2:36 PM on Friday, September 26

China’s second-in-command sounded his nation’s recurring alarm against aggressive and unilateral action in global politics in an address to world leaders

2:05 PM on Friday, September 26

The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines

1:52 PM on Friday, September 26

The Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey in this year’s high-stakes race is defending her Navy service amid questions surrounding a cheating scandal during her time at the Naval Academy, and pushing back against the Trump administration’s release of her mostly unredacted military records

1:47 PM on Friday, September 26

Sara Jane Moore, who spent more than 30 years in prison for trying to shoot President Gerald Ford, has died

1:46 PM on Friday, September 26

The Supreme Court is extending an order that allows President Donald Trump's administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid, handing him another victory in a dispute over presidential power

1:29 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump's transportation department has been reversing grants for recreational trails and bicycle lanes

1:03 PM on Friday, September 26

Just back from a congressional delegation trip to Ukraine, a senior Republican says he’s more optimistic that the country can succeed in the war with Russia

12:14 PM on Friday, September 26

Wisconsin business owner Bill Berrien has ended his Republican campaign for governor, days after it was reported that he followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer

11:33 AM on Friday, September 26

Federal immigration agents have arrested the leader of Iowa’s largest school district in a targeted enforcement action that shocked students and educators

11:07 AM on Friday, September 26

The Department of Homeland Security says it is relieving an immigration officer from his current duties after he shoved a woman to the floor at an immigration court in Manhattan

10:22 AM on Friday, September 26

Federal agents fired pepper balls and tear gas at protesters near an immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago

10:06 AM on Friday, September 26

Rep. John Moolenaar has requested an urgent briefing from the White House after Trump supported a deal giving Americans a majority stake in TikTok

9:32 AM on Friday, September 26

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died

9:14 AM on Friday, September 26

Iran’s president is calling the expected reimposition of sanctions over its nuclear program “unfair, unjust and illegal” as the U.N. Security Council rejected a last-ditch effort to delay them

5:56 AM on Friday, September 26

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute him and other perceived political enemies

9:05 PM on Thursday, September 25

Surrounded by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders that Israel “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza

9:01 PM on Thursday, September 25

President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his perceived political enemies has reached new heights as his Justice Department brings criminal charges against a longtime foe and he expands his efforts to classify certain liberal groups as “domestic terrorist organizations."

1:30 PM on Thursday, September 18

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show on Tuesday, just under a week after ABC pulled the host off the air indefinitely in the wake of criticism over his comments related the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month

10:40 AM on Thursday, September 18

President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with U.S. news organizations over his time in office has led to a host of legal battles and disputes