Politics & Government News

6:13 PM on Thursday, April 16

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill conducted a roundtable with leading AI executives and academics to discuss the potential transformative impacts of the technology on American society

6:04 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump has offered Cameron Hamilton the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's permanent administrator

4:07 PM on Thursday, April 16

The Trump administration has agreed to resume funding a key Manhattan subway project after New York officials sued

3:18 PM on Thursday, April 16

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is still earning royalties from his past career as a multilingual rapper

2:55 PM on Thursday, April 16

Brazil’s former intelligence agency chief Alexandre Ramagem celebrated on Thursday his release by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a two-day arrest in Orlando

2:25 PM on Thursday, April 16

Virginia’s former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax is accused of killing himself and his wife while their children were home

2:22 PM on Thursday, April 16

A Venezuelan attends an asylum interview in Southern California while his wife, a doctor, is detained in Texas

1:50 PM on Thursday, April 16

The Trump administration has slapped sanctions on two sons of Nicaragua’s copresidents, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, along with other officials and companies tied to the country’s gold sector

1:36 PM on Thursday, April 16

The U.S. is urging other nations to back a “trade over aid” initiative at the United Nations as part of the Trump administration’s broader shift away from donor-focused development assistance and toward greater private investment

1:22 PM on Thursday, April 16

During a contentious era, one of journalism's leading figures says he's concerned about news outlets that may be losing their moral compass

12:52 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is likely to face tough questions about his vast financial holdings at a hearing next week by the Senate Banking Committee

12:47 PM on Thursday, April 16

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended a more than 12% proposed cut to his department's budget and dodged arrows from angry Democrats as he kicked off an expected sprint of seven hearings in Congress over the next seven days

12:46 PM on Thursday, April 16

New York will lose more than $73.5 million in federal money because the Transportation Department says that state has refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year

12:40 PM on Thursday, April 16

President Donald Trump has nominated Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

6:24 AM on Thursday, April 16

Court records show that former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was facing a court-ordered deadline to move out of his family’s home before police say he killed his wife and then himself

4:05 AM on Thursday, April 16

The White House says it's “thrilled” after a federal commission gave early approval to the design for a 250-foot arch President Donald Trump wants to build at an entrance to the nation's capital

9:12 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Democrats are boasting of eye-popping fundraising hauls in some of this year's most competitive Senate contests

9:08 PM on Wednesday, April 15

President Donald Trump is betting that the tax cuts he signed into law last year will resonate with voters in Las Vegas

1:39 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release the 85-year-old French widow of a military veteran from immigration custody in Louisiana after she was detained earlier this month

12:53 PM on Thursday, April 9

A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands