Politics & Government News

4:05 PM on Friday, September 26

The White House is moving forward with a deal that would allow the U.S. government to take a small equity stake in a Canadian company that is developing one of the world’s largest lithium mines

3:45 PM on Friday, September 26

Sara Jane Moore, who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975, has died at 95

3:42 PM on Friday, September 26

Supreme Court keeps in place Trump funding freeze that threatens billions of dollars in foreign aid

3:24 PM on Friday, September 26

Atlanta’s airport has forfeited $37.5 million in federal grants after refusing to disavow diversity, equity, and inclusion programs

3:21 PM on Friday, September 26

3:03 PM on Friday, September 26

Just back from a congressional delegation trip to Ukraine, a senior Republican says he’s more optimistic that the country can succeed in the war with Russia

2:52 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump started Friday by warning that more of his enemies will face prosecution, shaking the foundations of the American justice system by treating it as a tool of political retribution

1:02 PM on Friday, September 26

Over the last five months, Florida law enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a U.S. Border Patrol official announced Friday

12:22 PM on Friday, September 26

Federal agents fired pepper balls and tear gas at protesters near an immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago

12:06 PM on Friday, September 26

Rep. John Moolenaar has requested an urgent briefing from the White House after Trump supported a deal giving Americans a majority stake in TikTok

11:36 AM on Friday, September 26

The Washington attorney who brokered book deals for Barack Obama, George W. Bush and dozens of other government leaders has died at age 79

10:25 AM on Friday, September 26

For two weeks, Memphis has been bracing for an influx of National Guard troops after President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy them to the city

8:57 AM on Friday, September 26

Moldova’s electoral commission has barred two pro-Russian parties from participating in this weekend's parliamentary election

7:02 AM on Friday, September 26

The United Nations has added 68 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

5:34 AM on Friday, September 26

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown is still “avoidable.”

4:02 AM on Friday, September 26

European defense ministers have agreed to develop a “drone wall” along their borders with Russia and Ukraine to better detect, track and intercept drones violating Europe’s airspace

12:19 AM on Friday, September 26

A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from immediately deporting dozens of Guatemalan and Honduran children who came to the U.S. alone

11:16 PM on Thursday, September 25

China has opened an investigation into whether Mexico's import tariffs are a trade barrier

7:28 PM on Thursday, September 25

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards

3:30 PM on Thursday, September 18

Jimmy Kimmel returned to his late-night show on Tuesday, just under a week after ABC pulled the host off the air indefinitely in the wake of criticism over his comments related the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this month