Politics & Government News

12:23 PM on Friday, March 27

As gas prices approach $4 a gallon nationally amid the conflict in Iran, some lawmakers are pushing to suspend the federal gasoline tax

12:01 PM on Friday, March 27

California lawmakers have voted to audit the state’s joint intelligence “fusion centers” after claims of illegal data sharing and invasive surveillance

11:33 AM on Friday, March 27

11:03 AM on Friday, March 27

Long-serving Missouri Republican Rep. Sam Graves has decided not to run for reelection

10:52 AM on Friday, March 27

The California attorney general and a voting right groups have launched two legal challenges to halt a ballot seizure by a Republican sheriff in Riverside County

9:54 AM on Friday, March 27

A new Texas report says child care scholarships have very low improper payments

9:43 AM on Friday, March 27

A judge has ruled that the government can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

8:31 AM on Friday, March 27

Mongolia’s Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav resigned Friday after rising tensions within the ruling party and a parliamentary boycott by the opposition

8:03 AM on Friday, March 27

6:46 AM on Friday, March 27

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida is maintaining her innocence following the House Ethics Committee’s finding that the Democratic congresswoman committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards

6:37 AM on Friday, March 27

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in the capital and will continue serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at his residence in an upscale gated community

5:06 AM on Friday, March 27

Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he'll be on the general election ballot

4:15 AM on Friday, March 27

A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency, it remains unclear what the agency saved

4:13 AM on Friday, March 27

China has opened two investigations into U.S. trade practices ahead of an upcoming visit by President Donald Trump in May

3:48 AM on Friday, March 27

Austria’s governing coalition has announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14

11:28 PM on Thursday, March 26

Mothers in a displacement camp in southern Somalia struggle to keep their children alive as drought and aid disruptions deepen hunger, a crisis that now also has a link to the far-away Iran war

9:58 PM on Thursday, March 26

Nepal’s youngest prime minister has taken the oath of office Friday after his party won a landslide victory in elections earlier this month

9:18 PM on Thursday, March 26

Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two residents who were shot by federal officers

1:14 PM on Thursday, March 26

Posts circulating on social media claim driver’s licenses could not be used for voter registration in federal elections under the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering

11:05 AM on Thursday, March 26

Costa Rica said that it would accept 25 “third party” migrants deported from the United States per week