Politics & Government News

1:05 PM on Tuesday, June 2

New York Democrats are wading into the national redistricting wars — just don’t expect a victory before this year’s hotly contested midterm elections

1:01 PM on Tuesday, June 2

Canada is calling on the United States and Mexico to renew the free trade agreement between the countries for another 16 years just as U.S. President Donald Trump revives talk of making Canada the 51st state

1:00 PM on Tuesday, June 2

President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on oversight of artificial intelligence, less than two weeks after postponing a White House ceremony over his concerns that a similar policy could dull America’s edge on AI technology

12:59 PM on Tuesday, June 2

President Donald Trump on Monday adjusted tariffs on some steel, aluminum and copper imports, lowering some tariffs on farming equipment and extending tariffs on other equipment

12:29 PM on Tuesday, June 2

U.S. Senate hopefuls Ken Paxton and Graham Platner are in Washington, D.C., to rally party support

11:54 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Two of Iraq’s most powerful Iran-backed militias say they will start handing in their weapons to authorities

11:37 AM on Tuesday, June 2

The Trump administration proposed 25% tariffs on imports from Brazil, charging that the world’s 10th-biggest economy engages in trade practices that are “unreasonable’’ and that “burden or restrict U.S. commerce

11:08 AM on Tuesday, June 2

New York’s attorney general is suing the Trump administration over one of its deals to end an offshore wind project

10:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

For a state that’s home to Hollywood, there isn’t much star power in California’s gubernatorial race

9:57 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Prosecutors have detailed how the estranged husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon embezzled more than 400,000 pounds from the Scottish National Party

9:18 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Democrats and Republicans say President Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence seems unqualified

8:25 AM on Tuesday, June 2

8:17 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will face more questions about the Trump administration’s fragile or stalling diplomatic efforts around the world in back-to-back hearings on Capitol Hill for the first time since the Iran war began

3:45 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Kenya’s president has defended the establishment by the U.S. of its own Ebola quarantine facility

3:04 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Mette Frederiksen is set to begin a third term as Denmark’s prime minister by leading a center-left coalition of four parties

12:08 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Senate Republicans are meeting to discuss next steps in a standoff with the White House

12:02 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's optimistic about the potential for a resumption in nuclear talks with Iran despite a shaky ceasefire in the war that's looking increasingly in doubt

12:02 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wants a return trip to City Hall after a shaky first term

12:01 AM on Tuesday, June 2

Democrats testing their chances in a right-leaning New Jersey battleground district are picking their nominee in a House primary to take on Republican incumbent Tom Kean Jr., who’s been absent for months from Congress as he deals with an unspecified medical issue

Tuesday, June 2

New Mexicans are choosing Democratic and Republican nominees for governor as the state grapples with high rates of violent crime, chronically underperforming schools and cuts to federal safety net programs