Politics & Government News

1:26 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Nicolás Maduro’s first court hearing — a heavily secured spectacle where he proclaimed he is still Venezuela’s president and pleaded “soy inocente” — was merely the beginning of a legal odyssey that could keep him locked up and out of power for years, maybe even the rest of his life

12:54 PM on Tuesday, January 6

The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States

12:37 PM on Tuesday, January 6

President Donald Trump promised that “America First” would stand against more foreign entanglements

12:33 PM on Tuesday, January 6

Guyana has threatened to deport over 100 Brazilian miners and suspended their licenses

11:50 AM on Tuesday, January 6

A Texas congresswoman says she wants to explore new ways for migrants to work legally in the construction industry

11:47 AM on Tuesday, January 6

11:25 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Voters in northwest Georgia will head to the polls on March 10 to choose a successor to U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

10:57 AM on Tuesday, January 6

10:33 AM on Tuesday, January 6

President Donald Trump wants Republicans to get a deal on health care insurance assistance by being flexible on a long-standing budget policy that bars federal money from being spent on abortion services

8:49 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down two laws that include the nation’s first explicit ban on abortion pills

8:28 AM on Tuesday, January 6

8:02 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Federal prosecutors have charged former Georgia state House member Karen Bennett with lying to collect unemployment benefits during the pandemic

7:32 AM on Tuesday, January 6

7:21 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Pennsylvania's Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro has set a new campaign finance record in the state with $30 million on hand as he seeks a second term this fall

7:15 AM on Tuesday, January 6

President Donald Trump’s has made broad but vague assertions that the United States is going to “run” Venezuela after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro but has offered almost no details about how it will do so

6:56 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Republican Doug LaMalfa, a California rice farmer who served seven terms in the U.S. House and was a reliable vote on President Donald Trump’s agenda, has died at age 65

6:53 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California has died, GOP officials say, reducing the party's narrow control of the House to 218-213

5:28 AM on Tuesday, January 6

Israel's foreign minister is visiting Somaliland, marking the first visit by an Israeli senior official since Israel recognized the breakaway territory as a sovereign state

2:00 AM on Tuesday, January 6

George Conway says he is running for a U.S. House seat in New York City

4:48 PM on Sunday, January 4