Politics & Government News

1:33 PM on Friday, September 26

Federal immigration agents have detained the head administrator of Iowa’s capital city public schools

1:12 PM on Friday, September 26

A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown

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

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

11:49 AM on Friday, September 26

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

11:32 AM on Friday, September 26

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died

11:14 AM on Friday, September 26

Russia and China are forcing the U.N. Security Council to vote on a resolution that would give Iran a six-month extension before sanctions related to its nuclear program are reimposed

10:49 AM on Friday, September 26

After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her homeland was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the alarming act of violence has ignited bitter racial and political rhetoric about crime victims and perpetrators in America

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

7:56 AM on Friday, September 26

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute him and other perceived political enemies

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

8:03 PM on Thursday, September 25

Former FBI Director James Comey might not be the only critic of President Donald Trump to face charges

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

10:59 AM on Tuesday, September 23

7:44 AM on Tuesday, September 23