Politics & Government News

4:05 PM on Wednesday, August 13

4:01 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Nine people have pleaded not guilty to felony charges brought forth in a rural Texas county by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton as part of a widening elections investigation

3:37 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A federal judge in San Francisco is weighing whether the Trump administration violated federal law by sending National Guard troops to accompany federal agents on immigration raids in Southern California

3:17 PM on Wednesday, August 13

New York’s attorney general has sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case under the Trump administration

2:07 PM on Wednesday, August 13

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his successful election campaign he could end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” upon taking office

1:04 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions in National Science Foundation grants to UCLA

12:39 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The U.N. Security Council has rejected plans by Sudan’s paramilitary group to establish a rival government in areas it controls

12:29 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Mexico says it sent 26 alleged cartel figures to the United States at the request of the Trump administration and to prevent these individuals from running their illicit businesses from Mexican prisons

12:16 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The White House says Attorney General Pam Bondi is effectively in charge of Washington D

12:00 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has mocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to help with Iran’s water crisis

11:26 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Colombians have bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died this week more than two months after being shot during a political rally

11:02 AM on Wednesday, August 13

10:26 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A newly released report from the California state auditor’s office says Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to have arbitrarily ordered workers back to the office without using specific rationale such as data on worker productivity

10:13 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Harvard University and the Trump administration are getting close to an agreement that would require the Ivy League university to pay $500 million to regain access to federal funding and to end investigations, according to a person familiar with the matter

10:09 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A judge is considering why it was necessary for the Trump administration to sue Maryland's entire federal bench over an order stopping the immediate deportation of immigrants challenging their removals

9:57 AM on Wednesday, August 13

The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Mexican companies and four people it says worked with a powerful drug trafficking cartel to scam elderly Americans in a multimillion-dollar timeshare fraud

9:39 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Germany says it will work with Ukraine's Western allies to provide military aid worth up to $500 million

9:33 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A divided panel of appeals court judges says the Trump administration can suspend or terminate billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid

9:27 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Trump says there will be 'very severe consequences' if Putin doesn't agree to stop the war after Friday's summit