Politics & Government News

10:05 PM on Saturday, January 31

Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips GOP-held Texas state Senate seat in special election for district Trump handily won in 2024

10:01 PM on Saturday, January 31

With the eyes of a nation upon it, the Minnesota immigration enforcement effort has tested a local newsroom in the midst of a digital transformation — and it hasn't left the local journalists overmatched

9:00 PM on Saturday, January 31

Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority

4:42 PM on Saturday, January 31

President Donald Trump says he's instructed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem not to intervene in protests in Democratic-led cities unless local authorities request federal help

3:35 PM on Saturday, January 31

U.S. charge d’affaires Laura Dogu has arrived in Caracas to reopen the American diplomatic mission in Venezuela after seven years of severed ties

2:56 PM on Saturday, January 31

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed a bill expanding the state Supreme Court’s five-judge panel to seven

1:27 PM on Saturday, January 31

A judge has ordered the U.S. to release a father and 5-year-old son who were taken into custody during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota

11:46 AM on Saturday, January 31

Over a thousand protesters, including many from Hungary's Roma community, have held a demonstration in Budapest where they demanded the resignation of a prominent government minister over comments seen as racist

11:38 AM on Saturday, January 31

An explosion has ripped through an apartment building in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas, killing a 4-year-old girl

10:28 AM on Saturday, January 31

Newly released files on Jeffrey Epstein have prompted the resignation of a top official in Slovakia and revived calls in Britain for a former prince to cooperate with authorities

10:27 AM on Saturday, January 31

10:19 AM on Saturday, January 31

A federal judge says she won’t halt the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and the Twin Cities as a lawsuit over it proceeds

8:25 AM on Saturday, January 31

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Milan to protest the deployment of ICE agents during the upcoming Winter Olympics

6:44 AM on Saturday, January 31

Emergency power cuts have hit several Ukrainian cities and neighboring Moldova

6:38 AM on Saturday, January 31

A huge new tranche of files on millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released Friday revealed details of his communications with the wealthy and powerful, some not long before his death by suicide in 2019

5:54 AM on Saturday, January 31

Canada's Conservative opposition party has voted to keep Pierre Poilievre as their leader despite his election loss last year and recent defections

5:34 AM on Saturday, January 31

North Carolina and South Carolina have become two hot spots for growth in the United States

5:28 AM on Saturday, January 31

Hundreds of Danish veterans have staged a silent protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen

11:12 PM on Friday, January 30

Rebel authorities in eastern Congo say at least 200 people were killed in a landslide at coltan mines

10:01 PM on Friday, January 30

Democrat Christian Menefee has won a Texas U.S. House seat in a special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority