Politics & Government News

4:44 PM on Friday, September 5

In a pointed show of solidarity against President Donald Trump, state and local leaders walked through one of Baltimore’s most historically underserved neighborhoods amid ongoing efforts to curb gun violence

3:53 PM on Friday, September 5

Congress is expected to allow President Donald Trump’s temporary takeover of Washington’s police department to expire next week as the 30 day limit comes to an end

3:52 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump’s administration says it's looking at ways the federal government can assume operation of the 9/11 memorial in New York City

3:49 PM on Friday, September 5

Confusion has emerged over Trump administration plans to halt some security assistance funding to European countries along the border with Russia

2:52 PM on Friday, September 5

The Trump administration is fighting Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bid to apply for asylum

2:50 PM on Friday, September 5

A former Boston city councilor has been sentenced to a month in prison after she pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges in a kickback scheme involving a relative

2:44 PM on Friday, September 5

Democrats and Republicans are testing dueling playbooks in fall elections that will decide the leadership of Virginia and New Jersey — and perhaps a new direction for the parties heading into next year’s midterms

2:39 PM on Friday, September 5

Riot police in northern Serbia have fired tear gas at peaceful protesters demanding free elections and justice

2:35 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage

2:31 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will host next year’s Group of 20 summit at his golf club in southern Florida

2:16 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about what to call the military agency

1:48 PM on Friday, September 5

The Trump administration is set to allow a West African leader accused of flagrant corruption to travel to the United States for this month’s U.N. General Assembly and cities outside New York that he has previously been barred from visiting

1:37 PM on Friday, September 5

CBS says it will no longer allow editing of newsmaker interviews on its Sunday morning show “Face the Nation.”

12:57 PM on Friday, September 5

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States

12:01 PM on Friday, September 5

The Justice Department is drawing swift condemnation from gun rights groups and LGBTQ advocates alike after floating that it was considering restricting transgender people from owning guns — a move that would all but certainly face immediate constitutional challenges if ever implemented

11:23 AM on Friday, September 5

Two teenagers have been arrested on murder charges in the killing of a congressional intern who was struck by stray bullets during a shooting in the nation’s capital

11:16 AM on Friday, September 5

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has said again that he won’t end his reelection campaign

10:18 AM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War

9:51 AM on Friday, September 5

The attorneys general of California and Delaware have expressed serious concerns about the safety of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens

7:00 AM on Friday, September 5

A congressional investigation finds the Pentagon has funded research involving collaboration with Chinese entities linked to China's defense sector