Politics & Government News

2:54 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors

2:52 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A federal judge has agreed to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who can receive a mail ballot

2:49 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Civil rights groups and researchers pleaded at a public hearing Tuesday for a federal agency to continue its annual collection of workplace demographic data

10:46 AM on Tuesday, August 11

While issuing an executive order urging states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, as well as their relationship to autism

9:50 AM on Tuesday, August 11

California cities and counties are struggling to meet state housing targets

9:44 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A U.N. agency reports that five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, around 2.4 million girls remain excluded from secondary education

9:18 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Turkey's parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants, aiming to advance peace efforts with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK

7:59 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Russia has released an American military veteran, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death

7:19 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Hungary's Parliament has elected András Baka as president as the new government dismantles structures left by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

6:38 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Primary elections are taking place in six U.S. states — Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin

5:06 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Iran is rejecting comments by President Donald Trump, who said that since Iran is seeking compensation as part of any peace talks, he’ll demand the same

5:00 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has selected a Republican-turned-independent as her running mate in a tough reelection campaign

2:05 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Authorities in Yemen say at least six people were killed when Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired missiles on a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait

9:08 PM on Monday, August 10

Republicans are aiming to flip Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District

9:07 PM on Monday, August 10

Connecticut Democrats face a choice between U.S. Rep. John Larson and younger challengers for the 1st Congressional District

9:04 PM on Monday, August 10

South Carolina Republicans are casting ballots in a special primary to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies

9:01 PM on Monday, August 10

The Democratic Party's internal battle is heating up in Minnesota

9:00 PM on Monday, August 10

A democratic socialist is trying to rise above the governor’s endorsed candidate in Wisconsin’s chaotic primary race for governor

7:40 PM on Monday, August 10

The Washington Post reports President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat

11:44 AM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots