Politics & Government News

5:35 PM on Wednesday, April 15

More than three dozen Democrats supported an effort by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to block arms sales to Israel, signaling a growing discontent in the party with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the wars in Gaza and Iran

5:33 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A California attorney who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power following his 2020 election loss is no longer licensed to practice in California

3:49 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop

3:27 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The South Carolina Senate has approved a proposal to protect nearly every historic statue, monument, and building name from changes or removal

2:03 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Illinois lawmakers are frustrated with the state Department of Corrections after an audit revealed ongoing issues with spending and safety

1:11 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The Trump administration is setting the stage to shift its war campaign toward a more economically focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission rather than relying on bombs alone

12:25 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Wednesday that Pope Leo XIV should be defended from “powerful people” who have recently criticized him

12:10 PM on Wednesday, April 15

For months, New York Gov_ Kathy Hochul has resisted calls to increase taxes on the wealthy, beating back progressives who have hounded her from Manhattan to San Juan bellowing chants of “tax the rich.”

12:07 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration

11:56 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The Republican-led Senate has rejected the latest Democratic attempt to halt President Donald Trump’s war in Iran

11:46 AM on Wednesday, April 15

President Donald Trump’s budget director is telling Congress that it'll take a massive upfront investment to ramp up U.S. weapons production and build more ships, planes and drones

10:54 AM on Wednesday, April 15

California's local governments are navigating a new law allowing developers to build mid-rise apartments near major transit stops

9:00 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory

8:35 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Maine’s legislature has passed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers

8:35 AM on Wednesday, April 15

A lawyer says guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at a state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades

6:31 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project, according to two people familiar with the visit

5:03 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The tax filing deadline for most Americans is Wednesday, and President Donald Trump's administration is highlighting the impacts of Republicans' massive tax and spending law

4:05 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Melania Trump has made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to pass a series of bills to update a nearly 30-year-old federal foster care program

9:30 PM on Tuesday, April 14

There's been a holdup on Capitol Hill in advancing the renewal of a program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners’ calls, texts and emails

9:22 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members