Politics & Government News

5:48 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Authorities believe residents of a remote community in the mountains of southern Mexico’s Oaxaca state beat five people to death and burned their bodies

4:45 PM on Wednesday, October 1

A federal judge has ruled that some migrants held in Tacoma, Washington, can request bond hearings

3:39 PM on Wednesday, October 1

3:21 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Andrew Cuomo is apologizing to New York City’s Jewish community for his response to the COVID-19 pandemic when he was governor

3:08 PM on Wednesday, October 1

The government shutdown has sparked intense political battles, with both parties blaming each other even as major job cuts — and major disruptions to iconic sites like the Liberty Bell and Pearl Harbor — have begun taking hold

3:07 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Rohingya Muslims have pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives

3:02 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown

2:13 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has hinted that she may not be interested in running for president in 2028

2:04 PM on Wednesday, October 1

A former Democratic member of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board has filed a lawsuit challenging his dismissal by President Donald Trump

1:40 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Citing the 9/11 attacks and other threats, a U.S. judge has blocked the federal government from cutting $34 million in funding to protect New York's transportation system from terrorist attacks

1:26 PM on Wednesday, October 1

A U.S. government shutdown has begun, and it could impact travel plans, with potential airport delays and cancellations

1:22 PM on Wednesday, October 1

1:20 PM on Wednesday, October 1

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller have converged on Memphis, Tennessee, to meet with federal agents forming a crime fighting task force there

10:52 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A New York City rapper who joined President Donald Trump during a campaign rally last year has been sentenced to five years behind bars after pleading guilty to attempted murder and conspiracy charges

10:48 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The U.S. military has historically been an engine for cultural and social change in America

9:57 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Crowds of people loaded onto boats to tour the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island with no immediate signs of the government shutdown that is triggering the furlough of about two-thirds of National Park Service employees

9:36 AM on Wednesday, October 1

A network of medical clinics that serves low-income residents in Maine says it is shutting down its primary care operations because of Trump administration cuts to abortion providers

8:40 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Hundreds of migrants have embarked on a protest march in southern Mexico in support of an aim to legalize their immigration status and find more work opportunities after a long frustrating wait near the Guatemala border

7:40 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The Trump’s administration is citing the government shutdown in explaining why it's holding up roughly $18 billion for a new rail tunnel beneath the Hudson River between New York City and New Jersey and an extension of the city’s Second Avenue subway

9:01 PM on Tuesday, September 30

The federal government was thrown into a shutdown with no easy endgame in sight