Politics & Government News

3:56 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Rapper Nicki Minaj says she wants to shine a spotlight on “the deadly threat” to Christians in Nigeria

3:48 PM on Tuesday, November 18

President Donald Trump continues to call on Indiana lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional boundaries, even as state senators do not have enough votes to do so

3:38 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's office says the National Guard will continue supporting a crime-fighting task force ordered by President Donald Trump in Memphis while state lawyers appeal a judge's order that blocked the troops from operating in the city

3:35 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Brazilian authorities have raged against comments by Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz in which he appeared to look down on Belem, a city on the edge of the Amazon rainforest

3:32 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Legal filings show Florida elections officials have taken early steps under pressure from activists to advance a proposed initiative to legalize recreational marijuana to next year’s ballot

3:28 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Senate agrees to pass bill to force release of Epstein files, sending Trump legislation he initially opposed

3:25 PM on Tuesday, November 18

The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely

3:24 PM on Tuesday, November 18

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced high-ranking military officials and a federal police officer to up to 24 years in prison for attempting a coup and plotting to kill President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

3:22 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks

3:19 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Homeland Security to deploy 250 agents for expansive immigration crackdown in Louisiana in coming weeks, AP sources say

3:11 PM on Tuesday, November 18

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that strikes on suspected drug boats his administration began carrying out in September in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean are saving hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. from fatal drug overdoses

2:58 PM on Tuesday, November 18

2:51 PM on Tuesday, November 18

New York City's chief fiscal officer, Brad Lander, has decided to go to trial on a misdemeanor obstruction charge

12:40 PM on Tuesday, November 18

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has firmly rejected the possibility of U.S. intervention against drug cartels a day after President Donald Trump again said he would support it

11:49 AM on Tuesday, November 18

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden says he's running to remain in office next June

10:41 AM on Tuesday, November 18

The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department

11:06 PM on Monday, November 17

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary and current Harvard professor Larry Summers says he'll step back from public commitments after the release of emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein long after the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl

10:09 PM on Monday, November 17

Both the House and Senate have acted decisively to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

10:06 PM on Monday, November 17

President Donald Trump is facing criticism for not condemning antisemitism within the conservative movement

12:16 PM on Monday, November 17

U.S. Border Patrol agents carrying out immigration enforcement operations in North Carolina’s largest city have arrested more than 130 people and are moving into the state’s capital city