Politics & Government News

4:26 PM on Monday, February 23

Peruvian authorities say intense rains in the south have triggered deadly mudslides and major damage in the city of Arequipa

4:07 PM on Monday, February 23

Chicago voters took a jab at President Donald Trump this year when they chose “Abolish ICE” as the top choice in the “You Name a Snowplow” contest

3:33 PM on Monday, February 23

The U.S. ambassador to Chile is defending U.S. travel bans on three senior Chilean officials as a security move

3:30 PM on Monday, February 23

A former Immigration and Customs Enforcement lawyer says the agency’s training for new deportation officers is broken as ICE ramps up its hiring

3:21 PM on Monday, February 23

The U.S. women’s hockey gold medal-winning team has politely declined an invitation from President Donald Trump to attend his State of the Union address on Tuesday

3:16 PM on Monday, February 23

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doubling down on his support for an executive order that would aim to boost the production of a controversial weedkiller ingredient called glyphosate, even though it is widening a political fault line for the administration ahead of the midterm elections

3:02 PM on Monday, February 23

The Education Department is handing over more of its programs and grants to other federal agencies

2:40 PM on Monday, February 23

The U.S. military says it killed three people in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea

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

1:34 PM on Monday, February 23

11:24 AM on Monday, February 23

A federal court ruling means the new Utah voting districts that give Democrats an improved shot at winning a U.S. House seat can be used in this year’s election

10:13 AM on Monday, February 23

British police have arrested Peter Mandelson — a former U.K. ambassador to the United States — in a misconduct probe stemming from his ties with Jeffrey Epstein

9:05 AM on Monday, February 23

The 21-year-old North Carolina man who entered a gate at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort with a shotgun before he was shot and killed worked as a golf course groundskeeper and sold illustrations of golf courses

8:01 AM on Monday, February 23

Senate Democrats are unveiling a bill to have the government refund about $175 billion in Trump-era tariff money after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were illegal

7:51 AM on Monday, February 23

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear from oil and gas companies trying to block lawsuits seeking to hold the industry liable for billions of dollars in damage linked to climate change

7:37 AM on Monday, February 23

A federal judge has permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate

6:30 AM on Monday, February 23

President Donald Trump is threatening countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports

10:05 PM on Sunday, February 22

When the American men’s hockey team retreated to their locker room to celebrate their Winter Olympics gold medal win, they were joined by a special guest from the United States: FBI Director Kash Patel

10:01 PM on Sunday, February 22

A day after the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord, the picturesque town where it happened was a study in contrasts

9:43 AM on Friday, February 20

A partisan battle to redraw U.S. House districts is raging in some states, even as campaigns get underway