Politics & Government News

10:17 AM on Saturday, August 29

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel and others in its quest to deport noncitizens who the government says have disrupted college campuses as they expressed their views

6:55 AM on Saturday, August 29

UNICEF says nearly six children and seven women have been released by a gang in Haiti that had kidnapped more than 50 people after launching a deadly attack on a community near Port-au-Prince nearly a week ago

5:22 AM on Saturday, August 29

President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach

4:44 AM on Saturday, August 29

Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing

9:51 PM on Friday, August 28

In firing up a trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump turned to a 96-year-old statute so obscure that many trade lawyers didn’t even know it was still on the books

9:02 PM on Friday, August 28

Voters in Iceland are deciding whether to resume negotiations to join the European Union

8:45 PM on Friday, August 28

6:41 PM on Friday, August 28

Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno has been sentenced to prison for accepting bribes from the Chinese company Sinohydro

6:39 PM on Friday, August 28

A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has been ordered to turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 penalty as part of a federal settlement

5:29 PM on Friday, August 28

The United States Southern Command says that Colombian security forces captured a suspected senior leader of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua

4:10 PM on Friday, August 28

The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and shows a “blatant disrespect” for the Indigenous people who gave it its name in the first place

4:04 PM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost

3:27 PM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump says he will mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon

3:05 PM on Friday, August 28

The federal government has agreed to extend the pause on border construction in Big Bend National Park until mid-September

2:20 PM on Friday, August 28

The FBI is no longer treating an applicant’s prior encounters with prostitutes as an automatic bar against employment

1:23 PM on Friday, August 28

A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump’s proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects on a host of Washington’s iconic landmarks, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials

1:21 PM on Friday, August 28

Immigration officials have arrested British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in New Orleans

12:41 PM on Friday, August 28

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s decision that blocked an executive order limiting mail voting before the midterm elections

5:45 AM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country’s oil reserves

9:02 PM on Thursday, August 27

Hundreds of protesters have rallied on the National Mall for a march in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm election