Politics & Government News

7:12 PM on Friday, February 27

The Treasury Department says it has ended its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service

6:48 PM on Friday, February 27

At least two retail customers have filed proposed class-action lawsuits against companies that have sued in trade court to ensure they receive refunds from tariffs now-deemed illegal

6:30 PM on Friday, February 27

The head of Haiti’s National Police tells The Associated Press that authorities are still working on a plan to safely hold general elections this year as promised by the government despite persistent gang violence

6:02 PM on Friday, February 27

A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man who forged threats against President Donald Trump as part of a deportation scheme to 16½ years in prison

5:04 PM on Friday, February 27

It has been seven weeks since the Iranian government used brute force to extinguish huge nationwide protests

4:58 PM on Friday, February 27

The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities starting next school year amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called “factories of anti-American resentment.”

4:38 PM on Friday, February 27

A New York businesswoman has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison over a financial scheme that prosecutors say ripped off more than $30 million from foreign investors and funneled some of the stolen funds to U.S. political campaigns, including a campaign fundraiser for President Donald Trump

4:15 PM on Friday, February 27

Shortly after it became known that Paramount was the apparent victor in the competition to buy CNN's parent company, network president Mark Thompson was compelled to send his staff a note to calm down, in effect

4:01 PM on Friday, February 27

Paramount’s possible takeover of Warner Bros

4:00 PM on Friday, February 27

Connecticut lawmakers aim to crack down on out-of-state bottle returns after the state’s 10-cent deposit drew a wave of fraud

3:30 PM on Friday, February 27

Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people's gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth

3:15 PM on Friday, February 27

The court-ordered deadline for the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Babson College student mistakenly deported to Honduras was set to expire as her attorney accused immigration officials of stalling

2:55 PM on Friday, February 27

President Donald Trump says the United States is talking with Cuba and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of the island without explaining what that means

2:48 PM on Friday, February 27

The United States swept both Olympic hockey gold medals only to see the celebrations turn into a political flashpoint

1:39 PM on Friday, February 27

Two American cardinals and the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government’s immigration crackdown

12:25 PM on Friday, February 27

A U.S. civil rights agency has determined that the federal government can bar transgender employees from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, dismissing an appeal from a transgender woman who worked for the U.S. Army

9:02 AM on Friday, February 27

The Pentagon has made a deal with Scouting America that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says would maintain their century-old partnership but refocus the organization away from “woke” policies

7:25 AM on Friday, February 27

Democratic lawmakers say former President Bill Clinton has tried to answer every question during a deposition over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

1:00 AM on Friday, February 27

In a break from tradition, refugees admitted to the United States after extensive interviews and vetting are being detained and questioned again

12:03 AM on Friday, February 27

The faces of Mexico’s disappeared paint the streets of Mexico’s second biggest city of Guadalajara