Politics & Government News

11:06 PM on Monday, September 15

Kash Patel will confront skeptical Senate Democrats at a congressional hearing likely to be dominated by questions about the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killing as well as the recent firings of senior officials who have accused the FBI director of illegal political retribution

11:04 PM on Monday, September 15

A private school founded by a Hawaiian princess gives admissions preference to Native Hawaiian applicants

11:04 PM on Monday, September 15

U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive in the United Kingdom for a state visit

11:02 PM on Monday, September 15

A San Francisco supervisor who pushed to turn a 2-mile stretch of highway into a car-free park faces a recall vote in his district

11:02 PM on Monday, September 15

A swarm of Russian drones flew last week into Poland in what officials there regarded as a deliberate provocation

11:02 PM on Monday, September 15

Prosecutors are looking at filing a capital murder charge against the Utah man jailed in the killing of prominent conservative activist Charlie Kirk

9:27 PM on Monday, September 15

Australia has offered to gift Papua New Guinea an extension to its Parliament House as the South Pacific island nation celebrates its 50th independence anniversary

8:33 PM on Monday, September 15

The Trump administration has added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly three decades

8:30 PM on Monday, September 15

Trump administration adds Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for first time since 1990s

7:23 PM on Monday, September 15

The Senate has approved one of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s governing board, giving the White House greater influence over the central bank just two days before it is expected to vote in favor of reducing its key interest rate

7:19 PM on Monday, September 15

An appeals court has ruled that Lisa Cook can remain a Federal Reserve governor, rebuffing President Donald Trump’s efforts to remove her just ahead of a key vote on interest rates

5:04 PM on Monday, September 15

Vice President JD Vance is jumping onto the conservative movement demanding consequences for those who have cheered Charlie Kirk’s killing, calling on the public to turn in anyone who says distasteful things about the assassination of his friend and political ally

4:26 PM on Monday, September 15

TikTok users in the U.S. may get a reprieve from the threat of a shutdown after the Trump administration announced it has reached a framework deal with China for the ownership of popular social video platform

4:17 PM on Monday, September 15

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has requested $13.5 billion more from Congress for Hurricane Helene recovery aid

3:14 PM on Monday, September 15

President Donald Trump says the U.S. military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel

2:49 PM on Monday, September 15

Ghana has become the latest African country to accept third-country nationals deported by the U.S. This controversial practice has raised legal concerns

9:58 AM on Monday, September 15

Lawyers for four of 14 West African men deported by the U.S. to Ghana say the men remain in Ghana and have not been sent to their home countries

7:16 AM on Monday, September 15

The U.S. State Department says Secretary of State Marco Rubio will head to Qatar after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel

4:52 AM on Monday, September 15

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned as dangerous comments by Elon Musk, who told an anti-immigration rally in London that violence is coming to Britain and urged people to fight back

1:46 AM on Monday, September 15

Japan’s government on Monday defended its stance on wartime sexual slavery and described South Korean court rulings ordering Japanese compensation as violations of international law, after U.N. investigators criticized Tokyo for failing to ensure truth-findings and reparations for the victims