Politics & Government News

2:13 PM on Friday, September 5

Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump

1:22 PM on Friday, September 5

European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, plan to visit the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions

1:12 PM on Friday, September 5

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

12:51 PM on Friday, September 5

Judge blocks Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians

12:26 PM on Friday, September 5

Peru’s Congress has rejected a long-delayed proposal to create the Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve

11:22 AM on Friday, September 5

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term

11:09 AM on Friday, September 5

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D

10:13 AM on Friday, September 5

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, who has poured some of the South American country’s new oil wealth into popular social programs, is poised to serve a second term after this week's election, according to preliminary results Friday

9:38 AM on Friday, September 5

Belarus has detained a Polish monk on suspicion of espionage, the latest escalation in Minsk's long-running standoff with its NATO member neighbor

9:23 AM on Friday, September 5

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has agreed to pay a $900 fine for failing to disclose a free trip to Hawaii and other complimentary trips while serving as the state’s attorney general

8:31 AM on Friday, September 5

Venezuelan mothers and grandmothers are appealing to U.S. first lady Melania Trump for help reuniting with their children

8:19 AM on Friday, September 5

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services

7:59 AM on Friday, September 5

7:48 AM on Friday, September 5

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is delaying a requirement for automakers that sell in Canada to begin hitting minimum sales levels for electric vehicles next year

6:43 AM on Friday, September 5

Lebanon’s Cabinet has met to discuss a plan by the Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah and consolidate weapons under state control

5:46 AM on Friday, September 5

Spain’s foreign minister says that he would support the expulsion of Israel Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta cycling race after the team was targeted by a pro-Palestinian protest that disrupted the event

4:15 AM on Friday, September 5

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has shaken up his Cabinet after Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned over a tax error

12:30 AM on Friday, September 5

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, particularly while its invasion is still ongoing, would be considered “legitimate targets” by Moscow's forces

9:11 PM on Thursday, September 4

U.S. winemakers have something to celebrate: the corks they’re popping aren’t subject to tariffs

9:04 PM on Thursday, September 4

The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing