Politics & Government News

5:56 PM on Thursday, November 20

President Donald Trump has continued loosening tariffs on Brazil to lower consumer costs for Americans

5:49 PM on Thursday, November 20

Tribal leaders and education advocates say the Education Department failed to meet a legal requirement by not consulting with tribes before announcing the transfer of dozens of Native American education programs to other federal agencies

5:37 PM on Thursday, November 20

Fugees rapper Pras Michel sentenced to 14 years in prison over illegal donations to Obama reelection campaign

5:32 PM on Thursday, November 20

ABC is in President Donald Trump's crosshairs this week

5:26 PM on Thursday, November 20

A federal judge in Maryland says she will rule as soon as possible on whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia can be released from immigration custody

5:14 PM on Thursday, November 20

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed Jorge Messias to the Supreme Court

4:05 PM on Thursday, November 20

3:37 PM on Thursday, November 20

A former staffer for a New Jersey congressman who told authorities she had been attacked and lacerated by three men while walking in a nature preserve this summer is now facing charges that she filed a false report

3:17 PM on Thursday, November 20

Federal oversight of the New Orleans Police Department ended this week a with a judge signing an order dissolving the consent decree

3:15 PM on Thursday, November 20

A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to end its monthslong deployment of National Guard troops to help police the nation’s capital

2:13 PM on Thursday, November 20

1:59 PM on Thursday, November 20

Colombian scientists have recovered a cannon, three coins and a porcelain cup from the Caribbean Sea

1:46 PM on Thursday, November 20

The Trump administration has threatened to withhold nearly $75 million in funding if Pennsylvania does not immediately revoke what the administration claims are illegally issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants

1:08 PM on Thursday, November 20

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani says he plans to center an upcoming meeting with Republican President Donald Trump on how the two opposing leaders could work to make the city a more affordable place to live

12:38 PM on Thursday, November 20

President Donald Trump is accusing half a dozen Democratic lawmakers of sedition “punishable by DEATH” after the lawmakers called on U_S_ military members to uphold the Constitution and defy “illegal orders.”

11:15 AM on Thursday, November 20

A Florida congresswoman is accused of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign

10:26 AM on Thursday, November 20

The White House has hit out at South Africa’s leader for "running his mouth" over the United States’ boycott of this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg

12:05 AM on Thursday, November 20

Pressure is mounting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to take stronger action to show accountability in the face of a corruption scandal presenting the greatest threat to his government since Russia’s full-scale invasion

12:04 AM on Thursday, November 20

New Orleans is warily awaiting a monthslong federal crackdown to arrest thousands of immigrants

12:04 AM on Thursday, November 20

For nearly two months, federal agents have been carrying out surprise raids in Chicago in pursuit of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, emerging from unmarked vehicles in neighborhoods throughout the city to confront and detain stunned members of the public