Politics & Government News

2:54 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Republicans in Congress are forging ahead with a risky go-it-alone strategy for funding the Department of Homeland Security

1:56 PM on Tuesday, April 14

President Donald Trump has again denied a request from Colorado’s governor to help people affected by wildfires and flooding

11:32 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Protesters in Slovakia's capital and elsewhere in the country have denounced a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to scrap mail voting for Slovaks living abroad

11:29 AM on Tuesday, April 14

A judge in Austin has ordered the temporary reinstatement of Texas's Historically Underutilized Business Program rules

11:21 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Democrats in Congress are trying to overturn the Trump administration's changes to a student loan forgiveness program

10:56 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The Kennedy Center's new executive director, Matt Floca, is leading tours to show the building's need for major repairs

10:25 AM on Tuesday, April 14

A bill that requires doctors to report on transgender-related healthcare has passed the Tennessee Senate

10:03 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Virginia voters are set to decide next week on a Democratic-drawn redistricting plan that could boost the party's chances in the U.S. House

9:06 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Visitors to the Vatican have criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for his harsh remarks about Pope Leo XIV

9:03 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Carla Crowder's unexpected courtroom experience in 2019 — representing Alvin Kennard, who spent 36 years in prison for a minor theft due to Alabama’s “three strikes” law — reshaped the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice

9:03 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The Trump administration has fired four Justice Department prosecutors involved in cases against anti-abortion activists

8:53 AM on Tuesday, April 14

At least seven people have died in a gang attack on a peaceful town in southern Haiti

8:45 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The most popular last names in the U.S. might be unchanged from the previous decade, but Asian surnames were the fastest-growing at the start of 2020s

8:21 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The Committee to Protect Journalists and five other international press freedom and human rights groups have urged Kazakhstan’s president to drop charges against several journalists placed under house arrest and change the country’s legislation to ensure press freedom

8:21 AM on Tuesday, April 14

An appeals court panel has ruled that a federal judge must end his contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year

7:01 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The American Postal Workers Union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail

5:50 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The Irish government has survived a confidence vote over how it handled a week of disruptive fuel protests that cut off oil supplies and caused massive traffic jams

4:28 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Spain's government has finalized a migrant amnesty measure that paves the way for potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status in the country

4:02 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Tax refunds are up this season, but polling shows that most Americans still think their taxes are too high, according to recent polls

9:01 PM on Monday, April 13

Pope Leo XIV, a studious and soft-spoken cleric, and Donald Trump, an unapologetically bellicose politician, have long been on a rhetorical collision course