Politics & Government News

1:45 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says improved civic education across the country would help people make better decisions

1:24 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Political violence has rocked the U.S. multiple times in recent months, culminating with the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a Utah university

1:09 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Countries in the South American Mercosur bloc have signed a free trade deal with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland

12:58 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has criticized the U.S. after it added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war

12:57 PM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump formally extended the deadline to keep the social media app TikTok available in the United States until Dec. 16

12:52 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Trump extends TikTok shutdown deadline for a fourth time after reaching framework deal with China to keep it operating

12:41 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Suspect left note under keyboard saying he planned to kill Charlie Kirk and confessed after shooting, documents show

12:28 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Thousands have rallied across Slovakia in a nationwide protest against the economic and pro-Russian policies of Prime Minister Robert Fico

12:23 PM on Tuesday, September 16

12:01 PM on Tuesday, September 16

House Republicans are unveiling a stopgap spending bill that would keep federal agencies funded through Nov. 21

10:53 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania says that the nation must “turn the tide” against political violence and the belief that government can’t solve problems

10:35 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Chrystia Freeland has resigned from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Carney to become a special envoy to Ukraine

10:07 AM on Tuesday, September 16

The Border Patrol agent who has led an immigration crackdown in Los Angeles has arrived in Chicago, possibly signaling a new phase in an enforcement surge announced last week

9:27 AM on Tuesday, September 16

After a late-night vote and last-minute ruling, the Federal Reserve began a key meeting on interest rate policy Tuesday with both a new Trump administration appointee and an official the White House has targeted for removal

7:27 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into a possible defect in Tesla door handles that have reportedly left parents unable to reach into back seats to get their children out of the cars

6:37 AM on Tuesday, September 16

FBI Director Kash Patel is confronting skeptical Democrats at a Senate hearing Tuesday, touting his leadership of the nation’s top federal law enforcement agency and facing questions about the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing, the case against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and the firings of senior FBI officials who have accused Patel of illegal political retribution

5:15 AM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump is intensifying immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities like Boston

11:45 PM on Monday, September 15

Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive in Gaza City, with heavy strikes reported across the area

10:02 PM on Monday, September 15

Prosecutors have brought an aggravated murder charge against the man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk in Utah

3:26 PM on Monday, September 15

A central question to TikTok’s potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its algorithm — the secret sauce that powers its addictive video feed — after it’s divested from Chinese parent company ByteDance