Politics & Government News

3:43 PM on Thursday, January 8

Trump says he wants government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds in a push to bring down mortgage rates

3:42 PM on Thursday, January 8

Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

3:38 PM on Thursday, January 8

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo announces he's leading a petition to amend the state's Constitution to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ and women’s sports

3:32 PM on Thursday, January 8

Connecticut officials are considering extending open enrollment for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans

3:23 PM on Thursday, January 8

Environmental groups claim federal and state officials withheld evidence about funding for an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades

3:09 PM on Thursday, January 8

The House has passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills that would fund parts of the federal government through September

2:35 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has strongly condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker

2:05 PM on Thursday, January 8

The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body

1:49 PM on Thursday, January 8

This week's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman by an immigration agent had grim echoes in Minnesota

11:31 AM on Thursday, January 8

The head of Venezuela's national assembly says a “significant number” of citizens and foreigners will be released from prison as a gesture to “seek peace.”

10:59 AM on Thursday, January 8

A judge has disqualified a federal prosecutor from overseeing investigations into New York Attorney General Letitia James

9:30 AM on Thursday, January 8

Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program

8:43 AM on Thursday, January 8

The head of Minnesota’s state investigations agency says the U.S. attorney’s office has barred it from taking part in the investigation into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman

7:46 AM on Thursday, January 8

The Senate has advanced a resolution that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere

7:22 AM on Thursday, January 8

The White House says structural issues and decay had made it unfeasible to save the East Wing

6:16 AM on Thursday, January 8

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island

1:13 AM on Thursday, January 8

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is delivering his final State of the State address to lawmakers in Sacramento

1:00 AM on Thursday, January 8

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz insists that the state must play a role in investigating the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer

11:03 PM on Wednesday, January 7

The House refused Thursday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of two low-profile bills as Republicans stuck with the president despite their prior support for the measures

11:02 PM on Wednesday, January 7

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is running for a second term in the pivotal battleground state after a first term that put him on the Democratic Party’s radar as a potential presidential contender in 2028