Politics & Government News

4:54 PM on Monday, December 1

Prosecutors in Colombia have charged two former members of President Gustavo Petro’s government with corruption for their alleged role in a congressional vote buying scheme

4:06 PM on Monday, December 1

3:36 PM on Monday, December 1

Two conservative political operatives have been sentenced to probation a scheme to discourage Black Detroit voters from voting by mail in the 2020 presidential election

3:00 PM on Monday, December 1

For travelers from the United States and Israel, visiting Bolivia has just become a little easier

2:59 PM on Monday, December 1

Four Republican-led states have settled lawsuits with the federal government over access to voter citizenship data

2:57 PM on Monday, December 1

Canada has joined a major European Union defense fund

2:29 PM on Monday, December 1

2:25 PM on Monday, December 1

Legal experts say leveling a second strike on the survivors of an initial attack on an alleged drug boat would have been a crime

2:00 PM on Monday, December 1

A Texas law that takes effect Thursday places new restrictions on which restrooms transgender people can use in certain government-owned buildings and schools

1:57 PM on Monday, December 1

Three lawmakers who represent Piedmont, South Dakota, are hoping to change weak state mining laws that allowed a proposed limestone mine to be sited in and around the city without local input

1:17 PM on Monday, December 1

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the “2020 election was rigged.”

1:01 PM on Monday, December 1

Federal review finds 44% of the 16,000 US trucking schools don't comply with government rules and may have to close

12:44 PM on Monday, December 1

Despite efforts in recent years to gain clarity, the roughly 110-mile state line between Michigan and Indiana remains as blurry as ever

12:17 PM on Monday, December 1

West Virginia's governor says a National Guard member from his state who was shot last week in an attack in Washington, D.C., remains in serious condition but has shown some positive signs

8:42 AM on Monday, December 1

New York City is set to get its first Vegas-style casinos, with one near the New York Mets' stadium and another potentially seeing a windfall for President Donald Trump

7:13 AM on Monday, December 1

President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Alina Habba has been disqualified from serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor

6:51 AM on Monday, December 1

Melania Trump and Usha Vance, who is married to the vice president, helped military spouses assemble care packages and write holiday cards for deployed service members during an American Red Cross event at a U

6:31 AM on Monday, December 1

A delegation from the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS has made no headway in talks with coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau but said at the end of its visit that discussions would continue later this month

12:56 AM on Monday, December 1

Hong Kong authorities say some of the netting on buildings that caught fire last week did not meet codes for fire resistance

10:04 PM on Sunday, November 30

Republicans in Indiana's House of Representatives have introduced a new congressional map that could net the GOP two more U.S. House seats, sweeping all nine of the state's seats