Politics & Government News

3:45 PM on Friday, March 20

The former counterterrorism director who resigned this week in protest of the Iran war is denying allegations that he improperly shared classified information

3:22 PM on Friday, March 20

A Georgia appeals court says Fulton County doesn't have to seat two Republican picks to its election board

3:14 PM on Friday, March 20

The reigning NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder will not visit the White House during their road trip to the nation’s capital this weekend

2:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The Treasury Department will take over the management of student loans whose borrowers are in default, according to a new agreement announced Thursday

2:30 PM on Friday, March 20

A Missouri judge has struck down the ballot summary for a potential referendum on a congressional redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump

1:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions that had been handled by the now-dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development

1:40 PM on Friday, March 20

California disclosures show state lawmakers accept lots of free travel and gifts from groups with business at the Capitol

1:07 PM on Friday, March 20

Brazil’s finance minister Fernando Haddad has resigned to launch a bid for São Paulo governor

12:14 PM on Friday, March 20

A former professional wrestler accused of misspending millions of welfare dollars in part of Mississippi’s largest public corruption scandal has been found not guilty by a jury

11:58 AM on Friday, March 20

The first of five high school protesters detained for days in Pennsylvania after a scuffle with a man who turned out to be the police chief entered a probationary program designed to spare him a criminal record

11:41 AM on Friday, March 20

Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces has gifted troubadour Silvio Rodríguez a combat AKM rifle and a replica of one after he recently said he would take up arms for the island

11:14 AM on Friday, March 20

10:19 AM on Friday, March 20

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is planning a visit to Hungary as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fights a close election and courts support from Washington

9:47 AM on Friday, March 20

Georgia has become the first state in the U.S. to suspend fuel taxes after the war in the Middle East sent pump prices soaring

8:20 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military says it attacked an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

7:47 AM on Friday, March 20

The Justice Department has filed a new lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of failing to address antisemitism on campus

6:37 AM on Friday, March 20

Does California’s race for governor finally have a leader

6:04 AM on Friday, March 20

The White House is laying out a new framework that it wants Congress to use to shape national rules for artificial intelligence without curbing growth in the sector

3:29 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day

3:01 PM on Thursday, March 19

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a 19-year-old Mexican migrant has died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees