Politics & Government News

3:11 PM on Thursday, January 8

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy

2:31 PM on Thursday, January 8

Vice President JD Vance is blaming a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed

2:14 PM on Thursday, January 8

House passes bill to extend health care subsidies despite GOP leadership's opposition, putting pressure on Senate to act

1:50 PM on Thursday, January 8

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sonia De Los Santos has canceled her upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington

1:43 PM on Thursday, January 8

Trump says he wants government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds in a push to bring down mortgage rates

1:42 PM on Thursday, January 8

Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

1:38 PM on Thursday, January 8

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo announces he's leading a petition to amend the state's Constitution to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ and women’s sports

1:32 PM on Thursday, January 8

Connecticut officials are considering extending open enrollment for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans

1:23 PM on Thursday, January 8

Environmental groups claim federal and state officials withheld evidence about funding for an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades

1:09 PM on Thursday, January 8

The House has passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills that would fund parts of the federal government through September

12:49 PM on Thursday, January 8

A Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer struck by a car last month while helping a stranded motorist has died from his injuries, the department announced

12:35 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has strongly condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker

9:34 AM on Thursday, January 8

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has vetoed a bill that could reduce Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence for his failed 2023 coup attempt

8:59 AM on Thursday, January 8

A judge has disqualified a federal prosecutor from overseeing investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James

7:30 AM on Thursday, January 8

Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program

5:22 AM on Thursday, January 8

The White House says structural issues and decay had made it unfeasible to save the East Wing

4:49 AM on Thursday, January 8

New York City parents may soon have access to free child care for their 2-year-olds, under a plan unveiled by Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani

4:16 AM on Thursday, January 8

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island

9:03 PM on Wednesday, January 7

The House refused Thursday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of two low-profile bills as Republicans stuck with the president despite their prior support for the measures

4:01 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine is joining Venezuela’s president and the man charged with gunning down United Healthcare’s CEO in a notorious federal lockup in New York City