Politics & Government News

2:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut nearly $800 million in health research funding in anti-DEI push

2:05 PM on Thursday, August 21

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia

1:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Federal inspectors will assume direct oversight of a Boar's Head deli meat plant when it reopens after an deadly listeria outbreak

1:39 PM on Thursday, August 21

Federal judge holds that former Trump lawyer Alina Habba has been unlawfully serving as US attorney in New Jersey

1:05 PM on Thursday, August 21

A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups is calling on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection in order to protect student protesters from government retaliation

12:57 PM on Thursday, August 21

Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with US visas for potential deportable violations

12:30 PM on Thursday, August 21

12:25 PM on Thursday, August 21

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida

11:46 AM on Thursday, August 21

Orlando officials have denounced the removal of a rainbow-colored crosswalk outside the Pulse nightclub

11:39 AM on Thursday, August 21

Iowa’s state party officials say it was a mistake that the party’s 2024 nominating calendar forced them to ditch the five-decade, first-in-the-nation caucus where community members publicly signal their support for a candidate

10:38 AM on Thursday, August 21

A proposal to build a water-guzzling data center near Tucson, Arizona, led the city to put some regulations on water use

10:11 AM on Thursday, August 21

Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones found filming scenes as politicians terrifying for new Netflix thriller show “Hostage.”

8:51 AM on Thursday, August 21

An Israeli citizen detained in Lebanon has been returned home after more than a year, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office

8:09 AM on Thursday, August 21

A former top aide to New York City Mayor Eric Adams is among seven people facing new charges in the corruption investigation that has swirled around City Hall for two years

7:49 AM on Thursday, August 21

James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89

1:20 AM on Thursday, August 21

Uganda's foreign ministry says the African country has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors

4:09 AM on Wednesday, August 20

Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP

6:00 PM on Tuesday, August 19

3:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage

10:44 AM on Monday, August 18

Hurricane Erin has pounded the North Carolina coast with strong waves and gusty winds as it slowly moves out to sea