Politics & Government News

7:08 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Trump administration appeals to Supreme Court after ruling found most of his sweeping tariffs illegal

6:49 PM on Wednesday, September 3

District of Columbia National Guard troops who are deployed as part of President Donald Trump’s federal law enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital have had their orders extended through December

5:12 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Federal authorities say they've deliberately chosen a notorious Louisiana prison to hold immigration detainees as a way to encourage people living illegally in the U.S. to self-deport

4:55 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Rep. Ronny Jackson has announced that the Navy has restored his retired rank of rear admiral

4:32 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The U.S. Department of Justice has requested access to voting equipment used in the 2020 election in two Missouri counties in what appears to be a wide-ranging effort to more closely monitor election processes around the country

4:06 PM on Wednesday, September 3

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is insisting that he isn’t dropping his reelection campaign after reports he had been approached about potentially taking a job with the federal government

3:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The publisher of Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir, “Nobody’s Girl," has finalized a draft with her family after they raised concerns

3:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican senators say they are prepared to change the chamber’s rules to get around the Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s nominees, discussing a proposal to make it easier to confirm multiple nominees at once

2:09 PM on Wednesday, September 3

It's an issue uniting the left and the right

1:46 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of over $2.6 billion in federal funding cuts to Harvard University

1:30 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The top ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee says a classified meeting planned with a key U.S. spy agency was called off after it was criticized by Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist

12:23 PM on Wednesday, September 3

India moves to cut taxes on hundreds of consumer goods ranging from air conditioners to small cars to bolster local consumption and cushion the economy from the blow of steep U.S. import tariffs

11:21 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Authorities say a researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier

11:19 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The United States has approved $32.5 million in assistance to Nigeria to help address hunger, in a rare shift in U.S. foreign policy since President Donald Trump abruptly suspended most aid through the U.S. Agency for International Development

9:45 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Aid agencies say the international community must increase funding to Afghanistan

5:56 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The pictures from this week’s military parade in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the earlier economic gathering would seem to offer a striking, maybe even defiant, message to the United States and its allies — evidence of a possible new reconfiguration of rising power in Eurasia, an “Axis of Upheaval,” as one U.S. analyst has called it

5:49 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Search teams have recovered around 100 bodies from a remote village in Sudan's Darfur region after a landslide devastated the area over the weekend

5:36 AM on Wednesday, September 3

President Donald Trump is suggesting that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard

2:33 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Russia has launched over 500 drones and two dozen missiles at Ukraine, targeting civilian infrastructure, especially energy facilities

10:05 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Police say a suicide bomber blew himself up as supporters of a nationalist party were leaving a rally in insurgency-hit southwest Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and wounding 30 others