Politics & Government News

6:24 AM on Tuesday, May 12

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's leadership is in jeopardy after his Labour Party suffered heavy defeats in local elections last week

12:05 AM on Tuesday, May 12

Two states could try to squeeze companies' money out of politics by redefining the powers of corporations

11:04 PM on Monday, May 11

President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup later this month

9:05 PM on Monday, May 11

Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are preparing for a summit, with both China and the U.S. emphasizing stable ties

8:00 PM on Monday, May 11

President Donald Trump claims America is profiting from trade with China despite tensions over rare earth minerals, tariffs and emerging technologies like AI

7:39 PM on Monday, May 11

A Montana judge has blocked the state from limiting voter registration on Election Day

7:18 PM on Monday, May 11

A Southern California mayor has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an illegal agent for the Chinese government and has resigned from her city position

7:10 PM on Monday, May 11

Workers have begun preliminary surveys and testing for a proposed Triumphal Arch sought by President Donald Trump

7:02 PM on Monday, May 11

The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development

6:01 PM on Monday, May 11

The U.S. Supreme Court has set the stage for Alabama to get rid of one of two largely Black congressional districts before this year’s midterm elections

4:32 PM on Monday, May 11

President Donald Trump has nominated Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency

3:58 PM on Monday, May 11

Democrats have filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to halt a redistricting rule by Virginia’s top court

3:11 PM on Monday, May 11

A Washington-based nonprofit is asking a judge to stop the Trump administration from altering the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

2:51 PM on Monday, May 11

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez tells journalists that her country has no plans to become the 51st U.S. state after President Donald Trump said he was “seriously considering” the move

1:41 PM on Monday, May 11

1:23 PM on Monday, May 11

President Donald Trump is moving to suspend the federal tax on gasoline to help Americans shoulder surging fuel prices caused by the Iran war

6:31 AM on Monday, May 11

Republican state officials are confusing voters and creating logistical headaches for local election officials across the South by redistricting U.S. House seats as primary season is underway

5:11 AM on Monday, May 11

Senate Republicans say they will move forward with a proposal to give the Secret Service up to $1 billion for security upgrades to Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project

4:51 AM on Monday, May 11

France is pitching what it says is a new model of partnership with African countries at a summit that begins Monday in Kenya as it completes a military withdrawal from West African countries that has been widely seen as marking declining influence on the continent

1:19 PM on Monday, April 27