Politics & Government News

11:42 AM on Thursday, April 2

A drone maker backed by President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to win contracts with Gulf countries under threat by Iran and protected by the U.S. military led by their father

11:33 AM on Thursday, April 2

Governors in Florida and Mississippi have signed laws requiring officials to verify voters' citizenship

11:24 AM on Thursday, April 2

The Trump administration has scaled back its plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

11:06 AM on Thursday, April 2

An inspection at the nation’s largest immigration detention facility found dozens of violations of national standards that potentially exposed detainees to excessive force, disease, and other unsafe conditions

10:57 AM on Thursday, April 2

The Belarus parliament has passed a bill to introduce punishments for people who promote LGBTQ+ causes, in an echo of similar laws that have been set up in neighboring ally Russia

10:27 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump said Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general

10:18 AM on Thursday, April 2

The president of the 25-campus Universities of Wisconsin has said in a letter obtained by The Associated Press that he’s been told to resign or he will be fired

9:42 AM on Thursday, April 2

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order blocking the federal government from taking punitive measures against artificial intelligence company Anthropic after a dispute with the Pentagon over military use of AI

9:37 AM on Thursday, April 2

Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill that could imprison people for up to 10 years for distributing abortion-inducing medication

9:33 AM on Thursday, April 2

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student fighting deportation, have asked Judge Emil Bove to step aside from an appellate panel that could weigh in on his case because of Bove’s previous role as a top Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters

9:25 AM on Thursday, April 2

Police in South Florida say they're investigating the death of Coral Springs' vice mayor as a domestic violence incident and her husband is in custody

8:30 AM on Thursday, April 2

Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, according to Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov

8:27 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump says Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general

8:08 AM on Thursday, April 2

A Colorado appeals court has ruled that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that attempted to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced

7:50 AM on Thursday, April 2

Twelve people deported from the U.S. have arrived in Uganda, according to the Uganda Law Society

4:09 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump's new White House ballroom has gotten final approval from a key commission

3:25 AM on Thursday, April 2

Pakistan confirms it is holding peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government in China

12:44 AM on Thursday, April 2

Iran has fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to attack

9:09 PM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump says the U.S. will keep hitting Iran “extremely hard” even though he says all his military objectives have been met or exceeded

9:06 PM on Wednesday, April 1

President Donald Trump says he'll soon sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who have gone without paychecks during the partial government shutdown that has reached 48 days