Politics & Government News

3:34 PM on Thursday, October 2

Americans' routine interactions with the federal government this week are increasingly being met with partisan messaging

3:27 PM on Thursday, October 2

One of Mississippi’s most-visited cultural attractions has reopened in the midst of the government shutdown, thanks to funding from a nonprofit group

3:16 PM on Thursday, October 2

Nebraska officials have missed a deadline to grant licenses to marijuana growers under a new medical marijuana law approved by voters

1:00 PM on Thursday, October 2

12:49 PM on Thursday, October 2

A provision included in California housing legislation this year caps at $100 the fines that homeowners associations can levy to enforce regulations

12:09 PM on Thursday, October 2

Lawyers say federal authorities are keeping a Michigan man in custody in a deportation case, despite his life-threatening leukemia

11:33 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has been frenetically posting on social media during the government shutdown

11:33 AM on Thursday, October 2

The Justice Department fired a top national security prosecutor amid criticism from a right-wing commentator over his work during the Biden administration, further roiling the prominent U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia after the ousting of other senior attorneys in recent weeks

11:29 AM on Thursday, October 2

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War

11:05 AM on Thursday, October 2

A Democratic civil rights attorney who has advocated for better treatment of prisoners and testified against Mississippi’s diversity, equity and inclusion ban says he is running for Congress

10:42 AM on Thursday, October 2

A hearing is underway in El Paso, Texas, in a lawsuit that seeks to block redistricting maps from being used in the 2026 congressional election

10:19 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels to be unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in an “armed conflict."

10:16 AM on Thursday, October 2

Trump declares drug cartels in Caribbean unlawful combatants and says US is now in a 'non-international armed conflict'

10:10 AM on Thursday, October 2

Brazil’s lower house has approved exempting up to 5,000 reais, or about $940, a month from income taxes

9:01 AM on Thursday, October 2

Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage

5:45 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats

4:06 AM on Thursday, October 2

The next president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't a surprise

9:02 PM on Wednesday, October 1

President Donald Trump is using the government shutdown to reshape the federal workforce and target detractors

3:56 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church

10:02 PM on Tuesday, September 30

The Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges during a government shutdown