Politics & Government News

5:17 PM on Tuesday, September 2

The California Legislature has passed a bill requiring schools to create plans for notifying parents and teachers when immigration enforcement is on campus

4:00 PM on Tuesday, September 2

A Colorado sheriff’s deputy disciplined for helping federal immigration agents make arrests has resigned

3:29 PM on Tuesday, September 2

The House Oversight Committee has publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell

3:03 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Jim Walden, an independent candidate in New York City’s mayoral race, has suspended his campaign

3:03 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump claims a video showing items being tossed from a White House window is fake and created with AI, though his press team earlier seemed to confirm the video's authenticity

2:52 PM on Tuesday, September 2

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2:41 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump is dismissing rumors about his health after speculation on social media because of a lack of public events over the last week

2:28 PM on Tuesday, September 2

Trump says US military strike on vessel in southern Caribbean targeted Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang, killed 11

12:33 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump says he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposition from state and local officials in both cities

12:26 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela that was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang

11:50 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Federal grand jurors in the nation’s capital have refused to indict two people who were charged separately with threatening to kill President Donald Trump

10:58 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Eight people were killed and 50 others were wounded over the Labor Day weekend in dozens of shootings in Chicago

10:49 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press

10:35 AM on Tuesday, September 2

Security, sovereignty, tariffs, trade, drugs and migration will top Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s agenda this week on his third trip to Latin America since becoming chief U.S. diplomat

10:10 AM on Tuesday, September 2

U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst is not seeking reelection next year

7:33 AM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump has announced that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama

6:30 AM on Tuesday, September 2

The White House has indicated it plans to appeal a judge's ruling that President Donald Trump’s use of National Guard troops during California immigration enforcement protests is illegal

4:02 AM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump's administration has started requiring parents seeking to reunite with their children who crossed into the U.S. alone to attend interviews with immigration officers

9:01 PM on Monday, September 1

The verdict and sentencing phase has started in the trial of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro

4:08 PM on Monday, September 1

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Beijing to attend a military parade with his Chinese and Russian counterparts, an event that could demonstrate potential three-way unity against the United States