Politics & Government News

1:49 PM on Monday, December 22

Attorneys for detainees at a Florida immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” want a federal judge to visit the facility

1:13 PM on Monday, December 22

12:18 PM on Monday, December 22

President Donald Trump is gathering with top national security officials

11:58 AM on Monday, December 22

A transgender employee of the National Security Agency is suing the Trump administration and seeking to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law

11:31 AM on Monday, December 22

The Senate’s top Democrat is urging his colleagues to take legal action over the Justice Department’s incremental and heavily redacted release of records pertaining to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

11:25 AM on Monday, December 22

10:16 AM on Monday, December 22

The Trump administration is suspending leases for five large-scale offshore wind projects under construction on the East Coast due to what it said were national security risks identified by the Pentagon

10:03 AM on Monday, December 22

Trump administration pauses 5 offshore wind projects on the East Coast, citing national security concerns

9:21 AM on Monday, December 22

Hours before airtime on Sunday, CBS News' “60 Minutes” held a planned story on President Donald Trump's deportation policy at the order of the network's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss

9:15 AM on Monday, December 22

Clashes have erupted between Syrian security forces and Kurdish fighters in Aleppo

7:02 AM on Monday, December 22

A new AP-NORC poll finds that most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach next year’s budget targets

6:13 AM on Monday, December 22

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was once seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party

5:10 AM on Monday, December 22

3:50 AM on Monday, December 22

The leaders of Denmark and Greenland are insisting that the U.S. won’t take over Greenland after President Donald Trump announced the appointment of a special envoy to the semi-autonomous territory

11:04 PM on Sunday, December 21

President Donald Trump has announced he is appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry to serve as the U.S. special envoy to Greenland, the vast, semi-autonomous territory of Denmark that Trump has said the U.S. needs to take over

11:01 PM on Sunday, December 21

Thailand’s foreign minister says Thailand and Cambodia will resume talks to work toward a more durable ceasefire along their border

9:42 PM on Sunday, December 21

A Malaysian court has rejected former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the rest of his graft sentence under house arrest

6:52 PM on Sunday, December 21

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities

3:19 PM on Sunday, December 21

Rapper Nicki Minaj has made a surprise appearance at a gathering of conservatives in Arizona

12:14 PM on Monday, December 1