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

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

1:14 PM on Thursday, April 16

Chinese government officials are urging travels to avoid entering the U.S. through Seattle

12:59 PM on Thursday, April 16

The Republic of Congo’s president, Denis Sassou N’Guesso, has been sworn in to a new five-year term in a packed stadium

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

12:47 PM on Thursday, April 16

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his Fidesz party needs a “complete renewal” after losing Sunday's election

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

12:04 PM on Thursday, April 16

Benin’s Constitutional Court has confirmed the presidential election victory of Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni in the West African country's weekend election

11:52 AM on Thursday, April 16

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing calls to resign after it emerged that his former ambassador to the United States was initially denied security clearance for the role that he was eventually fired from over his close links to the disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

11:20 AM on Thursday, April 16

The wife of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has apologized for what she says were “harmful” social media posts she made as a teenager

9:47 AM on Thursday, April 16

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says that while Cuba does not want military aggression from the United States, his country is prepared to fight should it happen