Politics & Government News

2:20 PM on Tuesday, November 4

Brazil’s leader, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, says he wants the future of the Amazon rainforest to be built around a major fund that will pay countries to keep their forests standing

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As voters lined up at the polls Tuesday, social media users claimed that how candidates are listed on New York City ballots is proof that voting is rigged

1:04 PM on Tuesday, November 4

Conservative activist Laura Loomer says she's been granted credentials to join the Pentagon press corps

12:46 PM on Tuesday, November 4

The FBI has continued its personnel purge, forcing out additional agents and supervisors tied to the federal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election despite efforts by Washington’s top federal prosecutor to try to stop at least some of the terminations

12:21 PM on Tuesday, November 4

The United States has circulated draft text for a U.N. Security Council resolution that would provide a mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza for at least two years

11:55 AM on Tuesday, November 4

The flags at the White House are lowered to half-staff in honor of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died Monday

10:32 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Signs of a potential end to the government shutdown are intensifying with behind-the-scenes talks

10:17 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy predicted Tuesday that there could be chaos in the skies next week if the government shutdown drags on and air traffic controllers miss a second paycheck

9:40 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died at age 84

8:44 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said he is prepared to call his American counterpart if negotiations on U.S. tariffs do not go forward in the near future

7:44 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Haiti’s government says that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa has risen to 43 and that 13 others are still missing

7:13 AM on Tuesday, November 4

The New York City mayor’s race pitting Zohran Mamdani against Andrew Cuomo will determine whether the city elects its first Muslim mayor and its youngest leader in generations or offers a comeback for a longtime politician who resigned as governor four years ago in disgrace

6:54 AM on Tuesday, November 4

Bomb threats to New Jersey polling stations, a voter roll mishap in Pennsylvania potentially affecting thousands of voters and warnings by President Donald Trump against California’s mail balloting system are marking the final day of voting in an off-year election with several nationally prominent races

3:35 AM on Tuesday, November 4

In Dick Cheney’s hands, the vice presidency became a nexus of influence and manipulation — no longer the timid office where its occupants had tended their boss’s ambitions

9:22 PM on Monday, November 3

California voters are deciding whether to change their state’s congressional district boundaries to favor Democrats

8:57 PM on Monday, November 3

A judge is hearing testimony about overflowing toilets, crowded cells, no beds and water that “tasted like sewer” at a Chicago-area immigration building

2:52 PM on Monday, November 3

CBS News' "60 Minutes" gave its audience a rare opportunity by releasing a full, unedited video and transcript of its interview with President Donald Trump