Politics & Government News

4:59 PM on Wednesday, April 22

U.S. health officials have stopped the publication of a study on the COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness in preventing hospitalizations

4:54 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is working on a book inspired in part by a massive immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis-St. Paul earlier this year and the local pushback

4:47 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis claims diversity, equity, and inclusion programs discriminate against white men

4:39 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms

4:22 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country

4:17 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Peru's defense and foreign ministers have resigned after the country's president stalled a $3.5 billion deal for U.S. F-16 fighter jets

4:06 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Kennedy Center is poised to undergo major renovations, with President Donald Trump calling it “tired, broken, and dilapidated.”

3:13 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his party’s House majority in this year’s midterms

2:47 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Nearly 4,400 fewer U.S. teens and young adults died by suicide than projected in the first two-and-a-half years of the 988 mental health crisis hotline

2:41 PM on Wednesday, April 22

A Colorado district attorney has charged an immigration agent after a protester was seen being held in a chokehold during demonstrations against the detention of an immigrant father and two children

1:59 PM on Wednesday, April 22

An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification

1:07 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Georgia's Democratic congressman David Scott has died at age 80

1:05 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva is boosting his reelection bid at age 80 by showcasing his fitness

1:03 PM on Wednesday, April 22

More kids than ever are attending state-funded preschool in the U.S., 1.8 million of them the last school year

12:42 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is considering sanctions against the government of Chihuahua

12:25 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Kansas City Royals are moving from Kauffman Stadium to downtown Crown Center

11:58 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Gerrymandering is proliferating in states across the U.S. Republicans and Democrats alike have been redrawing voting districts for the U.S. House to try to give their party an advantage

2:57 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”

12:09 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Six leading candidates for California governor will meet in a televised debate — all of them eager for a breakout moment in a chaotic race that has no clear leader

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 22

A Republican senator juggling three roles — lawmaker, doctor and political candidate seeking reelection — has walked a fine line as he questioned Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sen. Bill Cassidy supported Kennedy's confirmation as health secretary but is a strong vaccine advocate and has clashed with him over vaccine policies