Politics & Government News

1:51 PM on Saturday, December 6

President Donald Trump is hosting the 2025 Kennedy Center Honorees in the Oval Office for a medal presentation ceremony

1:23 PM on Saturday, December 6

Big 12 Commission Brett Yormark says legislation currently stalled in Congress is needed to regulate college athletics and put a stop to what he essentially calls uncapped spending for name, image and likeness in football

12:35 PM on Saturday, December 6

A U.N. delegation has visited Lebanon to explore options for the country's south once the U.N. peacekeeping force's term ends next year

11:59 AM on Saturday, December 6

Top law enforcement officials in the Trump administration had a clear message when they announced the arrest of a man charged with placing pipe bombs outside political party headquarters in Washington on Jan. 5, 2021

10:47 AM on Saturday, December 6

Mike Duggan is stepping down as Detroit mayor at the end of the year after three terms in office

9:36 AM on Saturday, December 6

Republicans in the Indiana Senate are facing threats as President Trump pushes for lawmakers to redraw the state's congressional map

9:02 AM on Saturday, December 6

Hong Kong’s national security police have arrested a 71-year-old man for allegedly posting seditious content on social media

8:11 AM on Saturday, December 6

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the presidency

4:38 AM on Saturday, December 6

Qatar’s prime minister says the Gaza ceasefire has reached a “critical moment” as its first phase winds down

7:23 PM on Friday, December 5

The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week’s shooting in Washington is slowly healing

7:16 PM on Friday, December 5

The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off

7:11 PM on Friday, December 5

New Orleans’ mayor-elect says a federal immigration crackdown launched this week is already causing harm

7:06 PM on Friday, December 5

A federal law enforcement operation at an Arizona taco shop resulted in a fracas on Friday, with pepper spray being deployed as a group of protesters tried to stop authorities

4:03 PM on Friday, December 5

Members of Congress now know that the U.S. military fired upon two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs — and they want answers

1:29 PM on Friday, December 5

Indiana state House lawmakers have passed a new congressional map that could net Republicans two seats

1:25 PM on Friday, December 5

A prosecutor says the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators he was “disappointed” in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election

8:53 AM on Friday, December 5

A federal judge has ordered the release of Florida grand jury transcripts from the federal sex trafficking cases of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, citing the transparency law President Donald Trump recently signed

6:52 AM on Friday, December 5

French first lady Brigitte Macron has reunited with a giant panda born in France during a visit to China with President Emmanuel Macron

12:11 AM on Friday, December 5

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an annual summit, focusing on diversifying economic ties

2:29 PM on Monday, November 17