Politics & Government News

2:34 PM on Monday, October 6

A battle over congressional redistricting is playing out across the U.S. as states redraw House districts for partisan advantage

2:24 PM on Monday, October 6

Authorities in Maine are investigating a claim that bundles of ballots arrived in a resident's Amazon order

1:54 PM on Monday, October 6

1:32 PM on Monday, October 6

Dana Drábová, the head of the Czech nuclear watchdog, has died

1:11 PM on Monday, October 6

The Associated Press is objecting to Donald Trump’s characterization of its ongoing legal dispute over access after the president incorrectly characterized the case in a public forum

12:08 PM on Monday, October 6

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison

11:54 AM on Monday, October 6

Republicans have seized on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a bid to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally

11:49 AM on Monday, October 6

California's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the City of El Cajon, alleging its police department has repeatedly violated state law by sharing license plate reader data with law enforcement agencies in other states

11:10 AM on Monday, October 6

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana

10:29 AM on Monday, October 6

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans

10:19 AM on Monday, October 6

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is warning lawmakers not to fall for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to divide Europe and wants them to work together for the bloc’s 450 million citizens

9:55 AM on Monday, October 6

Palestinians in Gaza are anxiously following indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas officials in Egypt

9:52 AM on Monday, October 6

Maine's state auditor and former secretary of state, Matt Dunlap, has announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jared Golden in the midterm primary

9:51 AM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugee into the U.S. this year – as few as 7,500, and mostly white Afrikaners

9:00 AM on Monday, October 6

Venezuela has warned of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives

8:40 AM on Monday, October 6

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to lift the 40% tariff on Brazilian imports

6:47 AM on Monday, October 6

Israeli authorities say they have deported another 171 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, including Greta Thunberg

6:17 AM on Monday, October 6

Paramount is buying the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News

5:11 AM on Monday, October 6

Republicans and Democrats have begun pouring money into an election this November for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

3:34 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court has opened its new term