Politics & Government News

12:47 PM on Thursday, September 11

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp now has a state trooper in the family

12:42 PM on Thursday, September 11

The Trump administration has asked an appeals court to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors by Monday, before the central bank’s next vote on interest rates

12:38 PM on Thursday, September 11

Trump administration requests emergency ruling to remove Fed governor Lisa Cook before meeting next week

12:04 PM on Thursday, September 11

Majority of Brazilian Supreme Court panel votes to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup

11:58 AM on Thursday, September 11

A federal judge has issued a nationwide block on a Trump administration directive that prevented children in the U.S. illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program

11:58 AM on Thursday, September 11

11:53 AM on Thursday, September 11

Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver is warning Missouri lawmakers that a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump is reopening racial divisions in Kansas City

11:40 AM on Thursday, September 11

Charlie Kirk began plotting a way to mold young minds into conservatism at an age when he was still sorting out his own path

11:32 AM on Thursday, September 11

Thousands have gathered in Slovakia's capital to protest against Prime Minister Robert Fico's pro-Russian and other policies

10:45 AM on Thursday, September 11

An Arizona judge has extended a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration’s effort to remove Guatemalan and Honduran children living in shelters or foster care after coming to the U.S. alone

10:16 AM on Thursday, September 11

Security experts are questioning the protection provided to Charlie Kirk at the Utah college where he was fatally shot

9:44 AM on Thursday, September 11

The highest-ranking Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says he doesn't want to “fortify” the state Capitol, which is one of the country’s most accessible statehouses

8:48 AM on Thursday, September 11

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar faces treason and other serious crimes, local justice authorities said Thursday

8:23 AM on Thursday, September 11

The majority of a panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat, in a ruling that will deepen political divisions and likely prompt a backlash from the United States government

7:49 AM on Thursday, September 11

Veteran political analyst Matthew Dowd is out of a job at MSNBC following some commentary regarding Charlie Kirk that drew a heated reaction

7:21 AM on Thursday, September 11

The U.N. migration agency is appealing for funds for around 134,000 people in Afghanistan who need help nearly two weeks after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in the country’s mountainous east

5:53 AM on Thursday, September 11

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was assassinated as he parried questions from an audience of thousands at a Utah college

5:48 AM on Thursday, September 11

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have marked 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at a service at the Pentagon

4:35 AM on Thursday, September 11

Belarus has freed 52 political prisoners as part of a deal brokered by the United States

2:55 AM on Thursday, September 11

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired the U