Politics & Government News

8:57 PM on Thursday, August 14

DC attorney general tells police chief that Bondi’s order taking her power is unlawful, as mayor resists Trump takeover

6:29 PM on Thursday, August 14

Bondi names DEA head as DC's 'emergency police commissioner,' granting him powers of police chief amid takeover

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Federal agents who typically investigate drug lords, weapons traffickers or cyber criminals have fanned out across the nation’s capital

3:06 PM on Thursday, August 14

A Minnesota man accused of killing a top Democratic state lawmaker and wounding another is now facing new and upgraded state charges

2:40 PM on Thursday, August 14

The security firm of former U.S. Navy Seal Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 personnel from various countries to Haiti, where gang violence is escalating

2:09 PM on Thursday, August 14

A federal judge has struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities

1:59 PM on Thursday, August 14

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Virginia’s economy is thriving after ending its fiscal year with high revenues

1:13 PM on Thursday, August 14

An Oregon university says Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged a record $2 billion to its cancer center

12:57 PM on Thursday, August 14

Texas Democrats have moved closer to ending a nearly two-week walkout that has blocked the GOP's redrawing of U.S. House maps before the 2026 election

11:47 AM on Thursday, August 14

California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a special election for Nov. 4 to approve redrawn districts

9:27 AM on Thursday, August 14

A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department

5:33 AM on Thursday, August 14

Attorney General Pam Bondi has named the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terry Cole, as Washington’s “emergency police commissioner."

3:51 AM on Thursday, August 14

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2:34 AM on Thursday, August 14

Israel’s far-right finance minister says a contentious new settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is going ahead, a project that Palestinians and rights groups worry will scuttle plans for a future Palestinian state by effectively cutting the West Bank into two separate parts

1:17 AM on Thursday, August 14

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine, more than three years after Moscow launched its invasion, as the two leaders prepared for a pivotal U.S.–Russia summit Friday in Alaska

10:25 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Some of the District of Columbia’s homeless residents are packing their belongings before an expected sweep to clear out remaining encampments around the nation’s capital