Politics & Government News

7:14 PM on Monday, December 8

Mexican authorities have detained former Chihuahua Gov. César Duarte, accused of laundering money diverted from state coffers

5:31 PM on Monday, December 8

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month

4:40 PM on Monday, December 8

Honduras is still waiting for final election results, more than a week after voting for a new president

4:10 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal judge has struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects, saying the effort to halt virtually all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters was “arbitrary and capricious” and violates U.S. law

4:06 PM on Monday, December 8

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy

3:45 PM on Monday, December 8

3:25 PM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump is justifying the U.S. military's decision to fire a second missile in a heavily scrutinized U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea

3:13 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal magistrate judge has rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race

2:56 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal judge investigating whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should face a contempt charge over flights carrying migrants to El Salvador wants to hear from a whistleblower and a top Justice Department official

2:28 PM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump says he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China

1:22 PM on Monday, December 8

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the latest Republican candidate for Georgia governor to attack campaign finance rules that allow Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to raise unlimited contributions

10:31 AM on Monday, December 8

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation

6:22 AM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump is giving farmers some $12 billion in aid to help as they struggle to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs

6:12 AM on Monday, December 8

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas

5:31 AM on Monday, December 8

A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony

5:19 AM on Monday, December 8

The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members

4:15 AM on Monday, December 8

Thailand and Cambodia have resumed fighting over disputed territory, just months after agreeing to a ceasefire

2:13 AM on Monday, December 8

British, French and German leaders met in London with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of European support for Kyiv at what they called a “critical moment” in the U.S.-led effort to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

1:55 AM on Monday, December 8

Benin's government has said Sunday's short-lived coup left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers

9:04 PM on Sunday, December 7

Mohammad Marwan has been struggling to rebuild his life after being released from Syria’s Saydnaya prison a year ago