Politics & Government News

7:20 PM on Friday, September 26

A federal judge in Minnesota has ruled that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed election technology company Smartmatic by falsely claiming its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election

7:17 PM on Friday, September 26

The words “truth and justice” rang out from crowds of protesters flooding the streets of Mexico City on Friday, just as it has every Sept. 26 since the disappearance of 43 Mexican students that shook the country

7:15 PM on Friday, September 26

The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

6:09 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump wants to send National Guard troops to Memphis, Tennessee, like he has in Washington, D.C. Early blueprints show key differences between the crime-centered operations

6:05 PM on Friday, September 26

The Congressional Black Caucus has gathered for its annual legislative conference in Washington this past week

5:50 PM on Friday, September 26

Power has been knocked out in three states in southeast Mexico after a problem with a transmission line

4:45 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump says he has ordered the government to declassify and release all records on missing aviator Amelia Earhart

4:36 PM on Friday, September 26

China’s second-in-command sounded his nation’s recurring alarm against aggressive and unilateral action in global politics in an address to world leaders

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

3:52 PM on Friday, September 26

The Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey in this year’s high-stakes race is defending her Navy service amid questions surrounding a cheating scandal during her time at the Naval Academy, and pushing back against the Trump administration’s release of her mostly unredacted military records

3:46 PM on Friday, September 26

The Supreme Court is extending an order that allows President Donald Trump's administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid, handing him another victory in a dispute over presidential power

3:29 PM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump's transportation department has been reversing grants for recreational trails and bicycle lanes

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

2:14 PM on Friday, September 26

Wisconsin business owner Bill Berrien has ended his Republican campaign for governor, days after it was reported that he followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer

1:07 PM on Friday, September 26

The Department of Homeland Security says it is relieving an immigration officer from his current duties after he shoved a woman to the floor at an immigration court in Manhattan

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

11:01 PM on Thursday, September 25

President Donald Trump’s retribution campaign against his perceived political enemies has reached new heights as his Justice Department brings criminal charges against a longtime foe and he expands his efforts to classify certain liberal groups as “domestic terrorist organizations."

7:44 AM on Tuesday, September 23