Politics & Government News

5:32 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country

5:06 PM on Wednesday, September 3

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is insisting that he isn’t dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government

4:58 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to prison time for the second time in a case involving Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht

4:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers

4:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican senators say they are prepared to change the chamber’s rules to get around the Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees, discussing a proposal to make it easier to confirm multiple nominees at once

3:50 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge has returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department

3:42 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang

2:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University

2:37 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican state Sen. Bobby Hanig has announced his bid for a U.S. House seat in North Carolina

2:07 PM on Wednesday, September 3

South Carolina's top attorneys say family leave after childbirth should include at least six weeks of paid leave for stillbirths

1:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Elected leaders in Georgia's Fulton County have delayed a vote on approving two Republican nominees to the county election board

1:25 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Chicago residents are bracing for an influx of military patrols and immigration agents in the coming days

12:47 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The House has rejected a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey

12:45 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s support was crucial to Robert F

12:21 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Authorities say a researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier

12:08 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have gathered on Capitol Hill to demand the release of the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier

10:46 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates that have been a cornerstone of public health policy for decades in keeping schoolchildren and citizens safe from infectious diseases

10:09 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

8:28 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Mexico and the United States have agreed to continue collaborating on cross-border security issues like fighting the trafficking of drugs, guns and fuel

10:05 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump has affirmed that the United States will keep a robust military presence in Poland as he held a warm meeting with Karol Nawrocki, the new president of the American ally in Europe