Politics & Government News

11:07 PM on Friday, September 19

South Carolina legislators are not getting paid for the rest of the year over a lawsuit about a recent pay raise

11:01 PM on Friday, September 19

Families of some of the victims of violent crime in Chicago say that although it's been a largely intractable problem for the city for decades, they don't think sending in National Guard troops is the answer

6:46 PM on Friday, September 19

President Donald Trump says the U.S. military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month

6:35 PM on Friday, September 19

Trump says US military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month

5:54 PM on Friday, September 19

An Egyptian immigrant and chaplain in Cincinnati has been released after weeks in detention

5:44 PM on Friday, September 19

Over the span of 14 days, nearly 200 people marched from Philadelphia to Washington, D

5:21 PM on Friday, September 19

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal on the Nov. 4 ballot to reshape California’s U.S. House districts to add five Democratic seats in advance of the 2026 midterm elections is not a sure sale, even in a state where Democrats outnumber registered Republicans by nearly 2-to-1

4:19 PM on Friday, September 19

A Missouri judge has struck down ballot summary for an anti-abortion amendment backed by Republican state lawmakers

3:12 PM on Friday, September 19

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation that will require a new, $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visa applications

2:52 PM on Friday, September 19

Brazil’s health minister says he will not attend the United Nations’ General Assembly in New York next week because the United States government gave him “an unacceptable visa” with mobility restrictions within the country

2:09 PM on Friday, September 19

Immigration enforcement officials have arrested almost 550 people in the Chicago area as part of an operation that began less than two weeks ago

1:10 PM on Friday, September 19

The Senate confirmed Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

1:10 PM on Friday, September 19

Texas A&M University’s president is stepping down amid a controversy roiling the campus

12:04 PM on Friday, September 19

A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges is resigning under pressure from the Trump administration

10:31 AM on Friday, September 19

Multiple people have been arrested after protesters tried to block vehicles at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement site outside Chicago

10:11 AM on Friday, September 19

The Virginia governor's race may be the first political test of President Donald Trump's slashing of the federal workforce through DOGE

7:37 AM on Friday, September 19

7:22 AM on Friday, September 19

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation that will require a new annual $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications

3:32 AM on Friday, September 19

Estonia has summoned a Russian diplomat to protest after three Russian fighter jets entered its airspace without permission

11:07 PM on Thursday, September 18

The Senate rejected competing measures to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date