Politics & Government News

5:21 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump says he's ready to restart U.S. mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over Nile River water sharing

4:42 PM on Friday, January 16

The Trump administration is delaying its plans to withhold pay from student loan borrowers who default on their payments, backing off a measure that threatened to deliver a financial blow to millions of Americans

4:21 PM on Friday, January 16

The former mayor of a New Jersey town and its current leaders are denying claims that the town directed its police to keep minorities out of the community

4:19 PM on Friday, January 16

National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year

4:12 PM on Friday, January 16

Republicans in Congress are supporting Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell as the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank

3:34 PM on Friday, January 16

A Southern California college student who says he was blinded in one eye by a projectile fired by a federal officer during a protest says he no longer has depth perception and lost the ability to drive

2:35 PM on Friday, January 16

Gov. Gavin Newsom is intensifying efforts to hold California cities and counties accountable for homelessness funding

2:28 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would like to keep his top economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, at the White House rather than potentially nominate him to replace Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve

2:15 PM on Friday, January 16

Social media users are falsely claiming that Enrique Tarrio, a former Proud Boys leader, is working as an officer for the federal agency

2:14 PM on Friday, January 16

A federal judge has ruled that work on a Virginia offshore wind project could resume

2:03 PM on Friday, January 16

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says she’s confident of her country’s eventual transition to democracy after the U.S. military ousted former President Nicolás Maduro

1:24 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump is thanking Iran for not following through on executions of more than 800 political prisoners

12:58 PM on Friday, January 16

Virginia’s Democratic-led General Assembly is advancing a constitutional amendment to allow redistricting ahead of the midterm elections

12:44 PM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump plans to pardon former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, a White House official said

12:06 PM on Friday, January 16

11:04 AM on Friday, January 16

A Massachusetts college student mistakenly deported to Honduras said the experience left her in shock and numb and wondering why she had been detained

10:41 AM on Friday, January 16

The Education Department is opening fewer sexual violence investigations at schools and universities

3:14 AM on Friday, January 16

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has an early lead in a tense presidential election

12:03 AM on Friday, January 16

As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure

12:02 AM on Friday, January 16

President Donald Trump isn't waiting for future generations to decide to name important things in his honor — he's doing it himself