Politics & Government News

3:36 PM on Friday, January 23

California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the Trump administration for approving an oil company's plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state's coast

3:16 PM on Friday, January 23

A Minnesota activist who was charged for her role in an anti-immigration enforcement protest at a church has released her own video of her arrest, after the White House posted a manipulated image online

2:56 PM on Friday, January 23

The Justice Department says in a sharply worded court filing that a report by former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents belongs in the “dustbin of history” and should remain sealed

2:36 PM on Friday, January 23

1:46 PM on Friday, January 23

An attorney for opposition figure Bobi Wine on Friday urged the international community “to demand immediate, verifiable guarantees” of Wine’s safety after repeated threats by Uganda’s army chief

1:16 PM on Friday, January 23

A federal judge in Georgia is dismissing a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking voter information from the state

12:40 PM on Friday, January 23

Assemblymember David Alvarez is pushing a bill to speed up $10 billion in climate funding in California

12:40 PM on Friday, January 23

Colombian President Gustavo Petro is optimistic about an upcoming White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump

12:25 PM on Friday, January 23

Vice President JD Vance is encouraging anti-abortion activists to celebrate progress in limiting abortion

12:20 PM on Friday, January 23

Julia Hewitt, a suicide prevention leader in Texas, is deeply concerned about the removal of LGBTQ+ services from the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

12:11 PM on Friday, January 23

San Diego has introduced parking fees at Balboa Park, sparking frustration and backlash

12:02 PM on Friday, January 23

A member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council has announced that a majority of the panel has voted to fire the country’s embattled Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the country’s political chaos deepens

11:57 AM on Friday, January 23

A majority of the presidential council that rules Haiti has voted to oust the prime minister as political chaos deepens

11:32 AM on Friday, January 23

TikTok has at last finalized a deal to keep the popular video sharing platform operating in the U.S. after years of uncertainty

9:18 AM on Friday, January 23

Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. envoys are meeting in the United Arab Emirates, the first known instance that officials from the Trump administration have sat down with both countries as part of Washington’s push to end Moscow’s nearly 4-year-old invasion

8:37 AM on Friday, January 23

Renée Fleming is withdrawing from two May appearances at the Kennedy Center

6:22 AM on Friday, January 23

Leaders at the World Economic Forum urged countries and businesses to filter out the turmoil from a week of clashes with the Trump administration and focus on boosting growth and fighting inequality

5:14 AM on Friday, January 23

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has signaled that U.S. President Donald Trump to apologize for his false assertion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan

3:52 AM on Friday, January 23

3:34 AM on Friday, January 23

Syria's government forces have taken control of a prison housing Islamic State group members in the country's north