Politics & Government News

11:55 AM on Saturday, August 23

The Trump administration has halted construction on an offshore wind project near Rhode Island that is 80% complete

10:29 AM on Saturday, August 23

The University of Colorado-Colorado Springs has faced challenges under the Trump administration’s higher education policies

9:57 AM on Saturday, August 23

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has promised to sign a new congressional voting map designed to help Republicans maintain their slim majority in Congress

9:41 AM on Saturday, August 23

Administrators at the University of Colorado's campus in Colorado Springs believed they could avoid the Trump administration's focus on higher education

9:39 AM on Saturday, August 23

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's attorneys tell court that US government plans to deport him to Uganda after refusing plea offer

8:37 AM on Saturday, August 23

Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016

6:57 AM on Saturday, August 23

12:50 AM on Saturday, August 23

Texas Legislature gives final approval to redrawn congressional map favoring GOP, sends to governor

12:15 AM on Saturday, August 23

Opposition lawmakers in Taiwan have survived recall votes, while a referendum to bring back nuclear power has failed

11:14 PM on Friday, August 22

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has held his first full summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo

11:02 PM on Friday, August 22

The world’s leading food authority says Gaza is experiencing famine

11:01 PM on Friday, August 22

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign

9:45 PM on Friday, August 22

Bolivia’s Supreme Court has ordered a review of the detention of three right-wing leaders held without trial

8:32 PM on Friday, August 22

A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts

8:01 PM on Friday, August 22

Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’s demands

6:31 PM on Friday, August 22

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced this week that the U.S. will pause issuing work visas to some foreign truck drivers

8:19 AM on Friday, August 22

The Texas Senate has given final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature

7:13 AM on Friday, August 22

The Justice Department has released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case

1:37 AM on Friday, August 22

Iran's foreign minister has spoken with his French, German, and British counterparts, trying to stop the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program

3:16 PM on Thursday, August 21

The World Food Program says a drone attack on a 16-truck U.N. convoy carrying food aid to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region destroyed three vehicles that had caught fire