Politics & Government News

6:17 PM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said

5:40 PM on Friday, August 21

The Trump administration has notified Congress of its plans to pay more than $800 million of the several billion it owes to the United Nations

5:31 PM on Friday, August 21

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has ordered an investigation into a man accused of creating a fake government agency

4:52 PM on Friday, August 21

The 250th anniversary of U.S. independence was just months away when National Park Service employees received a directive from Washington

4:44 PM on Friday, August 21

Even for well-traveled IndyCar drivers, a track with the U.S. Capitol in the background is a little awe inspiring

4:33 PM on Friday, August 21

Ed Martin, a loyal White House ally who held multiple Justice Department posts despite unconventional tactics that sometimes rankled his superiors, is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration

4:19 PM on Friday, August 21

In his most recent challenge to the results of the 2020 U.S. election, President Donald Trump this week cited a report claiming to show that thousands of noncitizens voted, a practice studies have found to be extremely rare

3:47 PM on Friday, August 21

Eighteen migrants have been laid to rest in Ceuta’s Muslim cemetery following Spain’s deadliest border crisis three weeks ago

3:12 PM on Friday, August 21

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter

3:02 PM on Friday, August 21

State prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs over allegations that she took part in a pay-to-play scheme with a group home company

2:10 PM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump has expressed his gratitude to the Supreme Court for allowing the White House to continue construction for now on his $400 million White House ballroom project

1:11 PM on Friday, August 21

Nearly 200 activists in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s “Make America Healthy Again” movement are criticizing President Donald Trump's promotion of coal to power artificial intelligence data centers

12:20 PM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump has announced his administration will temporarily allow more beef imports into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs

12:20 PM on Friday, August 21

Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have hit a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores more

9:29 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump is in South Carolina making a last-minute appeal for Sen. Darline Graham

5:27 AM on Friday, August 21

Pakistan’s government has rejected allegations by the family and party of imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan as baseless

12:02 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump says the first step toward keeping Darline Graham as a U.S. senator from South Carolina involves helping her win a Republican runoff next week

12:01 AM on Friday, August 21

Vice President JD Vance has returned to his hometown to campaign for Republican candidates at a steel plant where his grandfather worked

6:08 PM on Thursday, August 20

7:41 AM on Thursday, August 20

The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep fighting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington