Politics & Government News

4:29 PM on Monday, April 13

A Brazilian senator said on Monday that the country’s former intelligence agency chief Alexandre Ramagem was arrested by ICE and is pleading for him to get political asylum in the United States

3:48 PM on Monday, April 13

Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas says he will retire from Congress after bipartisan calls to expel him

1:53 PM on Monday, April 13

President Donald Trump used a McDonald's delivery to the Oval Office to promote a tax policy meant to benefit tip earners

1:32 PM on Monday, April 13

1:18 PM on Monday, April 13

Kim Kardashian is adding Broadway producer to her resume

1:15 PM on Monday, April 13

Dozens of protesters were arrested at a demonstration urging Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to block the sale of U.S. bombs to Israel

11:49 AM on Monday, April 13

A majority of U.S. Catholic voters supported Donald Trump in his 2024 presidential victory

11:30 AM on Monday, April 13

Texas Tech University System’s chancellor has ordered campuses to phase out programs focused on sexual orientation and gender identity

10:59 AM on Monday, April 13

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California says he will resign from Congress following sexual assault and misconduct allegations

10:35 AM on Monday, April 13

Paul Dans has ended his Republican primary challenge against Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina

9:47 AM on Monday, April 13

The Trump administration has agreed to keep flying a rainbow Pride flag on a federal flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, reversing course after removing the banner in February

9:06 AM on Monday, April 13

White House economists estimate the United States has a shortage of 10 million houses

6:51 AM on Monday, April 13

A former Nigerian oil minister has denied taking bribes in exchange for government contracts

6:49 AM on Monday, April 13

A federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over a story on his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

4:03 AM on Monday, April 13

For the Trump family, business is booming

9:18 PM on Sunday, April 12

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader

9:07 PM on Sunday, April 12

The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States

9:04 PM on Sunday, April 12

The church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final speech is getting upgraded with a $1.2 million federal grant

6:20 PM on Sunday, April 12

President Donald Trump is refusing to apologize to Pope Leo XIV after criticizing the pontiff's opposition to the war in Iran

4:35 PM on Sunday, April 12

Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar says he would talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin but won't initiate contact