Politics & Government News

3:58 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has returned to a hospital in Brasilia

3:38 PM on Tuesday, September 16

A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral has been sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction on corruption charges that he agreed to exchange a military contract for a lucrative postretirement job

3:36 PM on Tuesday, September 16

3:22 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Alabama is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction that blocked part of a law that limits assistance with absentee ballot applications

2:45 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor says improved civic education across the country would help people make better decisions

1:57 PM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump formally extended the deadline to keep the social media app TikTok available in the United States until Dec. 16

1:52 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Trump extends TikTok shutdown deadline for a fourth time after reaching framework deal with China to keep it operating

1:41 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Suspect left note under keyboard saying he planned to kill Charlie Kirk and confessed after shooting, documents show

1:23 PM on Tuesday, September 16

1:21 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Utah prosecutor says suspect’s DNA found on trigger of gun used to kill Charlie Kirk

1:13 PM on Tuesday, September 16

A Belarusian court has sentenced independent journalist Ihar Ilyash to four years in prison

1:11 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Suspect in assassination of Charlie Kirk in Utah is charged with aggravated murder and weapon and obstruction offenses

1:01 PM on Tuesday, September 16

Democratic leaders are lashing out at a stop-gap spending bill to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month

11:35 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Chrystia Freeland has resigned from the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Carney to become a special envoy to Ukraine

10:27 AM on Tuesday, September 16

After a late-night vote and last-minute ruling, the Federal Reserve began a key meeting on interest rate policy Tuesday with both a new Trump administration appointee and an official the White House has targeted for removal

8:27 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into a possible defect in Tesla door handles that have reportedly left parents unable to reach into back seats to get their children out of the cars

6:15 AM on Tuesday, September 16

President Donald Trump is intensifying immigration enforcement in sanctuary cities like Boston

12:45 AM on Tuesday, September 16

Israeli forces have launched a new ground offensive in Gaza City, with heavy strikes reported across the area

12:23 AM on Tuesday, September 16

The New York Times says President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the newspaper and four of its journalists is meritless and an attempt to discourage independent reporting

4:26 PM on Monday, September 15

A central question to TikTok’s potential shutdown saga has been whether the popular social video platform would keep its algorithm — the secret sauce that powers its addictive video feed — after it’s divested from Chinese parent company ByteDance