Politics & Government News

5:34 PM on Thursday, May 7

President Donald Trump’s border czar has threatened to “flood the zone” with immigration agents if New York passes bills to limit local coordination with the federal government’s crackdown

5:17 PM on Thursday, May 7

New York state lawmakers are expected to place a new tax on luxury second homes in New York City, appeasing Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his progressive base as he moves to fund his ambitious agenda on the backs of the rich

4:05 PM on Thursday, May 7

It's a new honor worthy of her name

3:28 PM on Thursday, May 7

The State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of thousands of parents who owe a significant amount of unpaid child support

3:19 PM on Thursday, May 7

President Donald Trump says goods from the European Union will face higher tariff rates if the 27-member bloc fails to approve last year’s trade framework by July 4

2:24 PM on Thursday, May 7

A council appointed by President Donald Trump has proposed significant changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency

2:21 PM on Thursday, May 7

2:10 PM on Thursday, May 7

Regents have appointed Susan Ballabina as the new president of Texas A&M

2:03 PM on Thursday, May 7

The United States Postal Service is considering a rule change that would allow anyone to send handguns through the mail for the first time in nearly 100 years

2:02 PM on Thursday, May 7

An Atlanta-based appeals court has rejected a no-bond policy implemented by the Trump administration for people in immigration proceedings

1:31 PM on Thursday, May 7

Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she has long had a condition called an essential tremor

1:28 PM on Thursday, May 7

A clean energy group says the Pentagon is holding up the development of more than 250 new onshore wind farms on private lands by failing to complete its national security reviews

1:09 PM on Thursday, May 7

The Trump administration plans to weaken some Biden-era limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water

12:10 PM on Thursday, May 7

7:11 AM on Thursday, May 7

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln

3:23 AM on Thursday, May 7

Kenya's political word of the moment is “goonism," used to describe gang-related political violence

2:00 AM on Thursday, May 7

British voters have cast ballots in local and regional elections that could determine the fate of Prime Minister Keir Starmer

12:15 AM on Thursday, May 7

Michigan Republicans once viewed 2026 as their best chance to reclaim power in the battleground state

12:07 AM on Thursday, May 7

Three Western intelligence officials from different countries have told The Associated Press that a campaign of targeted killings they blame on Russia has ramped up since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine

7:29 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The federal government doesn't have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta