Politics & Government News

6:01 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Congo’s president says the African nation won't be able to hold elections after his term ends in two years unless the conflict that has gripped the country’s east is resolved

5:12 PM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, is asking a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award

4:51 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A Texas city facing a water shortage is starting talks with a private company with to build a new desalination plant

4:46 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to discuss organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Brazil’s finance minister

4:13 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Orleans Parish School Board has accepted a settlement in a funding dispute with the city of New Orleans

4:03 PM on Wednesday, May 6

U_S_ prosecutors say a plain glass-clad building in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood was a secret Chinese spy outpost, with orders to silence, harass and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents in the U_S_ It had a banner inside that said: “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station, New York USA.”

3:24 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Justice Department has found UCLA's medical school illegally considered race in admissions

3:08 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A California city has fined a couple $915,135 for cutting down 38 trees

2:35 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The leading candidates for California governor are trying to stand out from the crowded field as mail voting is underway

2:24 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Justice Department has agreed to return Tennessee Republican congressman Andy Ogles’ personal cellphone that was seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, signaling it's abandoning its probe into the President Donald Trump supporter

1:09 PM on Wednesday, May 6

With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war

12:17 PM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, and it sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority

12:14 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The FBI has searched the Democratic Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop

8:47 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The primary election results in Indiana have shown how President Donald Trump can punish Republican lawmakers who defy him

8:29 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A U.S. fighter jet on Wednesday fired on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, the U.S. military said

8:11 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Venezuela insists that a mineral-rich region of Guyana was fraudulently taken in the 19th century

8:05 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Members of Congress have come away from a private House committee interview with vastly different assessments of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s answers about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl

12:02 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts

6:56 PM on Tuesday, May 5

A federal civil rights agency filed a discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Times, claiming that the new organization passed over a white male employee for a promotion in favor of a lesser qualified woman to meet its diversity goals

11:57 PM on Monday, May 4

South Carolina is the latest state to enter a redistricting battle after the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the Voting Rights Act