Politics & Government News

5:09 PM on Tuesday, February 24

If politicians write memoirs to generate online buzz and headlines, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is getting plenty of both - favorable and not

4:02 PM on Tuesday, February 24

A federal appeals court is allowing the IRS to keep sharing some taxpayer data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:58 PM on Tuesday, February 24

The Justice Department is suing the University of California over allegations that UCLA failed to protect Jewish employees from antisemitic harassment amid pro-Palestinian protests that roiled the campus in 2023 and 2024

2:53 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Venezuela’s National Assembly says thousands of people have regained freedom under a new Amnesty Law

2:40 PM on Tuesday, February 24

More than a dozen states are suing the Trump administration over its changes to vaccine recommendations for children

2:18 PM on Tuesday, February 24

The State Department has expressed its displeasure over Ukraine's recent attacks on the Russian port of Novorossiysk that have impacted U.S. oil interests in Kazakhstan

2:02 PM on Tuesday, February 24

The former Los Angeles fire chief has filed a lawsuit against the city, alleging that her ouster was part of an orchestrated effort to smear her conduct and decision-making so Mayor Karen Bass could avoid accountability for the most destructive wildfire in LA history

1:53 PM on Tuesday, February 24

1:53 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Authorities say a man fatally stabbed four people before being shot by a sheriff’s deputy outside a home northwest of Tacoma, Washington, on Tuesday

12:45 PM on Tuesday, February 24

The gold-medal-winning U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team landed at Joint Base Andrews and visited President Donald Trump at the White House before attending his State of the Union address on Tuesday night

12:25 PM on Tuesday, February 24

Caribbean leaders are gathering in St. Kitts and Nevis

10:42 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Brazil’s Supreme Court has started the high-profile trial of the suspects allegedly behind the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver in 2018

10:23 AM on Tuesday, February 24

President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address is likely to be a test run of the message Republicans will give to voters in November’s elections for control of the House and the Senate

10:20 AM on Tuesday, February 24

French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the resignation of the Louvre Museum’s president

7:43 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Many Iranians are worried as the United States assembles its greatest military firepower in decades in the Middle East and the next round of talks in Geneva get closer

6:29 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Legislation to require all aircraft flying around busy airports to have key locator systems to prevent midair collisions failed to win approval in the House on Tuesday

5:34 AM on Tuesday, February 24

Britain’s House of Commons has approved the release of confidential papers related to former Prince Andrew’s appointment as a trade envoy

10:03 PM on Monday, February 23

The White House says President Donald Trump will use his State of the Union address to argue he and the Republicans in control of Congress are best suited to continue tackling the public's concerns about the cost of living

10:01 PM on Monday, February 23

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pressuring Anthropic to give the military broader access to its artificial intelligence technology or lose its Pentagon contract

1:34 PM on Monday, February 23

A U.S. official focusing on arms control has provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground nuclear test nearly six years ago