Politics & Government News

7:31 PM on Friday, May 8

Argentina’s tourism-dependent province — Tierra del Fuego, home to the southernmost city of Ushuaia — is reacting angrily to the idea that the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship may have emerged from its territory, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated cruise

6:52 PM on Friday, May 8

A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News

5:55 PM on Friday, May 8

Migrant advocates in Arizona have designed a new tool to help track immigration-related enforcement in and around Tucson as arrests surge under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative

5:39 PM on Friday, May 8

An attorney says the National Science Foundation has suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley, despite a court injunction restricting such suspensions

4:11 PM on Friday, May 8

ABC is accusing the Trump administration of trying to chill free speech and hinder open political discussion

3:21 PM on Friday, May 8

Three western U.S. states have announced a new two-year deal to stabilize the Colorado River

2:56 PM on Friday, May 8

Laura Fernández has been sworn in as Costa Rica's president, with outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves serving as her minister of the presidency and minister of finance

2:46 PM on Friday, May 8

The Texas Department of State Health Services is lifting a requirement for youth camps to install fiber optic facilities this summer

2:06 PM on Friday, May 8

President Donald Trump's administration is pushing federal land management officials to lift restrictions on hunting and trapping in national parks, refuges and wilderness areas

2:00 PM on Friday, May 8

Botswana's government says former president Festus Mogae has died at age 86

12:53 PM on Friday, May 8

A man charged with attacking the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is seeking to disqualify top Justice Department officials from direct involvement in prosecuting him because they could be considered victims or witnesses in the case

12:52 PM on Friday, May 8

A Florida jury has convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse

11:48 AM on Friday, May 8

Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba

10:29 AM on Friday, May 8

Countries are preparing to manage 140 people on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

10:15 AM on Friday, May 8

The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval

9:01 AM on Friday, May 8

California will become the first state in the nation to provide infants with hundreds of free diapers before they leave hospitals after birth

8:28 AM on Friday, May 8

The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs, tapping into public curiosity about unidentified phenomena

7:00 AM on Friday, May 8

A three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, has eased tensions over a potential Ukrainian attack on a Red Square parade in Moscow

1:06 AM on Friday, May 8

Partial results from local elections in England show significant losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and gains for Reform UK

12:04 AM on Friday, May 8

U.S. immigration officials have quietly lifted a hold on green card and visa applications for doctors from three dozen countries