Politics & Government News

10:03 PM on Wednesday, September 10

In the tragic roll call of violence in American public life, Charlie Kirk’s name joins the long list

7:24 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Mexican import taxes on more than 1,400 products from China and other Asian countries will be as high as 50%, as the country tries to shore up domestic production and pass on some of the Trump administration’s tariff pain

6:56 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Authorities seeking new person of interest in Charlie Kirk assassination, no one currently in custody, official says

6:23 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Some out-of-state National Guard to remain in DC though November at request of Trump administration, Ohio governor says

6:04 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was given some respite on Wednesday after a Supreme Court justice voted to acquit him from all charges in his alleged coup trial

5:00 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says one of the first doctors in the U.S. accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found not to have broken the law

4:45 PM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump’s goal of appointing a majority of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors faced a setback Tuesday when a court blocked his unprecedented attempt to fire Lisa Cook

4:43 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk shooter wore dark clothing, fired from a roof on campus some distance away, Utah authorities say

4:31 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Senate Republicans have barely defeated an effort by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein

1:49 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster and ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed

1:41 PM on Wednesday, September 10

The administration of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has resurrected the country’s interior ministry in a bid to build alliances with opposition governors

1:21 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Authorities say conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed by a single shot in a targeted attack during an outdoor event Wednesday at Utah Valley University

11:00 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump administration

9:13 AM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump’s emergency order that federalized Washington’s police force is set to expire

8:41 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to cancel a public land management rule that sought to put conservation on equal footing with industry

6:59 AM on Wednesday, September 10

NATO allies have held talks about Russian drones entering Polish airspace

6:18 AM on Wednesday, September 10

The deadly protests in Nepal that forced the country's prime minister to resign on Tuesday were a result of long-simmering discontent ignited by the government’s ban on major social media platforms

2:57 AM on Wednesday, September 10

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza

1:34 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Protesters blocked roads and set fires in Paris and across France as part of a nationwide “Block Everything” campaign

8:11 PM on Tuesday, September 9

South Korea says a charter plane that is planned to carry South Korean workers who were detained in an immigration raid in Georgia will depart Thursday at noon to return home