Politics & Government News

5:38 PM on Friday, December 19

A judge on Friday ordered special elections for the Mississippi Supreme Court after earlier finding that the electoral map used to select justices violated the Voting Rights Act

5:37 PM on Friday, December 19

Authorities have uncovered massive fraud in Minnesota, with billions of taxpayer dollars potentially lost

5:06 PM on Friday, December 19

DOJ acknowledges to Congress that Epstein files release is incomplete, expects additional disclosures by end of year

4:54 PM on Friday, December 19

The Trump administration has awarded a $1.6 million, no-bid contract a Danish university to study hepatitis B vaccinations on newborns in Africa

4:50 PM on Friday, December 19

It’s been a grim week at the end of a tough year for the United Nations: Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack in Sudan

4:45 PM on Friday, December 19

First-term U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming won’t seek reelection next year

4:24 PM on Friday, December 19

Rep. Elise Stefanik says she is suspending her campaign for New York governor and will not seek reelection to Congress

4:19 PM on Friday, December 19

Rep. Elise Stefanik ends her campaign for New York governor and says she won't seek reelection to the House next year

4:10 PM on Friday, December 19

Justice Department releases thousands of records in Epstein case, including photos, call logs; some heavily redacted

4:00 PM on Friday, December 19

The Chicago Transit Authority has boosted police presence on the public transport system after President Donald Trump's administration renewed funding-cut threats over security

3:50 PM on Friday, December 19

3:21 PM on Friday, December 19

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter says she had an "absurdly invasive" pat-down at an airport security checkpoint on Thursday

2:53 PM on Friday, December 19

Pope Leo XIV has named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez as bishop of Palm Beach, Florida

2:30 PM on Friday, December 19

2:07 PM on Friday, December 19

The Supreme Court is siding with immigration judges and rebuffing the Trump administration for now in a case that could have wider implications for federal workers as the justices weigh expanding presidential firing power

12:54 PM on Friday, December 19

Attorneys for President Donald Trump have urged a federal judge to rule that Trump is entitled to presidential immunity from civil claims that he instigated a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 election

11:31 AM on Friday, December 19

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hopeful but clear about the challenges facing the Trump administration’s Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas peace efforts

10:47 AM on Friday, December 19

Syria’s government and its allies have welcomed the lifting of sanctions imposed by the U.S. Congress in 2019 to punish then-President Bashar Assad for human rights abuses

12:15 AM on Friday, December 19

President Donald Trump has suspended the green card lottery program that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States

4:03 PM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump's administration says its efforts over the past week are meant to stop the flow of drugs into the U.S. and increase pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro