Politics & Government News

6:34 PM on Thursday, February 12

A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot pull back $600 million in public health grants allocated to four Democratic-led states, for now

6:30 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by Tarique Rahman, claims victory in country’s first election since 2024 uprising

5:41 PM on Thursday, February 12

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to approve a 40-member global scientific panel on the impacts and risks of artificial intelligence, with the United States strongly objecting

5:18 PM on Thursday, February 12

Financial groups in Canada and the UK have paused new projects with DP World after emails show its CEO had a long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

5:16 PM on Thursday, February 12

A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to give detained immigrants in Minnesota quick, private access to lawyers

4:37 PM on Thursday, February 12

A Palestinian protester says “inhumane” conditions in a Texas immigration jail have harmed her health after nearly a year in detention, possibly contributing to a seizure she suffered last week

3:17 PM on Thursday, February 12

President Donald Trump-endorsed housing developer Karrin Taylor Robson suspended her campaign Thursday for Arizona governor

2:56 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.”

2:54 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead

2:32 PM on Thursday, February 12

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to make arrangements to allow some of the Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador to return to the U

2:07 PM on Thursday, February 12

New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd

12:33 PM on Thursday, February 12

President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that has extensive contracts with the agency he would lead

10:44 AM on Thursday, February 12

The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions

9:53 AM on Thursday, February 12

Guatemalan prosecutors have raided two voting locations as a process got underway to fill top justice jobs that could shape the rule of law and test its democracy

9:25 AM on Thursday, February 12

Venezuela’s ruling party lawmakers have debated an amnesty bill that could free hundreds of people held for political reasons

8:03 AM on Thursday, February 12

The parents of an Alabama girl who was killed at Camp Mystic are seeking more safety oversight on summer camps

7:13 AM on Thursday, February 12

The families of the victims of the mass shooting in a remote Canadian town are grappling with unrelenting grief as details emerge about those killed in the country’s deadliest mass shooting in years

6:20 AM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration says it is ending its massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota after weeks of angry mass protests, thousands of arrests and two fatal shootings

5:19 AM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations

9:02 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a large U.S. delegation to the Munich Security Conference this week