Politics & Government News

7:29 PM on Wednesday, November 5

North Korea has denounced the Trump administration’s latest sanctions targeting cybercrimes that help finance its illicit nuclear weapons program, accusing the United States of harboring “wicked” hostility toward Pyongyang and vowing unspecified countermeasures

7:22 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Top Trump administration officials have briefed lawmakers on the growing U.S. campaign to destroy alleged drug-smuggling boats in the waters off South America

7:03 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Within hours of Zohran Mamdani’s election as New York’s first Muslim mayor, there were swift and harsh reactions from his Jewish critics

6:09 PM on Wednesday, November 5

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a state funeral for the country’s longtime ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, who died this week at age 97

6:07 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Federal immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen in Los Angeles and drove off with his car, which had his one-year-old daughter inside

5:56 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Protesters at an anti-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C., were re-energized following significant Democratic victories in elections this week

5:54 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Eleven states and Kentucky's governor are suing the Trump administration over what they call unlawful terms on federal funding for disaster and terrorism preparedness

5:50 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Judge orders improvements at Chicago-area immigration facilities after claims of inhumane conditions

5:41 PM on Wednesday, November 5

President Donald Trump is finding that Senate Republicans have a limit as he pushes them to scrap the filibuster

5:29 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Democrats are hopeful again

5:17 PM on Wednesday, November 5

President Donald Trump nominated a former lawmaker from New Mexico to oversee the management of a quarter-billion acres of public lands that are concentrated in Western states

4:23 PM on Wednesday, November 5

A federal court judge is allowing the Trump administration to reconsider the approval of a major federal permit for a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, which was granted days before the president’s inauguration

3:51 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden says he will not seek reelection

3:15 PM on Wednesday, November 5

A jury has begun deliberating in the Justice Department’s assault case against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent, turning him into a symbol of resistance to President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital

2:40 PM on Wednesday, November 5

Witnesses say a Chicago day care employee was detained at work during a drop-off time for children, reflecting the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive enforcement tactics

10:10 AM on Wednesday, November 5

Voters have sent a message to President Donald Trump that the economy doesn't feel as though it's booming — despite what he says

9:39 AM on Wednesday, November 5

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum says the harassment she suffered from a drunk man near the government seat is an assault on all women

8:32 AM on Wednesday, November 5

A day after Democrats dominated the first major Election Day since Donald Trump returned to the White House, the president is in Miami to speak at a forum of business leaders and global athletes about what he sees as his economic achievements

8:01 AM on Wednesday, November 5

Zohran Mamdani has just been elected mayor of New York City and is already challenging President Donald Trump

7:17 AM on Wednesday, November 5

Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York mayoral race inspires many in Uganda, though it feels distant