Politics & Government News

12:14 PM on Friday, September 26

Wisconsin businessman 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

11:12 AM on Friday, September 26

A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown

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

11:02 AM on Friday, September 26

Over the last five months, Florida law enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a U.S. Border Patrol official announced Friday

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

The U.N. Security Council has rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran a day before the deadline after Western countries claimed that weeks of meeting with officials failed to result in a “concrete” agreement

8:49 AM on Friday, September 26

After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her homeland was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the alarming act of violence has ignited bitter racial and political rhetoric about crime victims and perpetrators in America

8:25 AM on Friday, September 26

For two weeks, Memphis has been bracing for an influx of National Guard troops after President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy them to the city

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

5:02 AM on Friday, September 26

The United Nations has added 68 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

3:34 AM on Friday, September 26

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still “avoidable.”

2:02 AM on Friday, September 26

European defense ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, track and intercept drones violating Europe’s airspace

9:16 PM on Thursday, September 25

China has opened an investigation into whether Mexico's import tariffs are a trade barrier

9:05 PM on Thursday, September 25

Encircled 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."

5:28 PM on Thursday, September 25

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards

8:59 AM on Tuesday, September 23

5:44 AM on Tuesday, September 23