Politics & Government News

10:21 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Senate is working through the night as Republicans are trying to pass funding for two immigration enforcement agencies over Democratic objections and reopen the Department of Homeland Security

9:53 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The New York Times says it has learned that the FBI investigated one of its reporters, Elizabeth Williamson, after she wrote about its agents being assigned to protect and transport the girlfriend of that agency's director, Kash Patel

8:36 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The decision in Colorado to charge an immigration officer with assault after a protester was grabbed by the neck and pulled away could test the boundaries of immunity provisions for federal agents in the line of duty

7:45 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Anthropic on Wednesday told an appeals court that it can’t manipulate its artificial intelligence tool Claude once it is deployed in classified Pentagon military networks

7:05 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Voting and civil rights groups are suing Alaska elections officials, alleging their sharing of the state’s voter registration list with the U.S. Department of Justice is unconstitutional

6:23 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Three congressional candidates are accused of betting on their own elections through the prediction market Kalshi

6:01 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Trump family's alternative to Facebook and Twitter is shaking up its leadership in hopes of reviving the struggling business

5:45 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Pentagon has abruptly announced that Navy Secretary John Phelan is leaving his job

5:37 PM on Wednesday, April 22

An aide to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who was the target of secret surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation has reached a settlement for $1.25 million with the federal government

5:19 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Trump administration has taken the unusual step of sending a government plane to Cuba to return a 10-year-old at the center of a complicated and contentious custody fight involving the child’s gender identity

5:02 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has concluded a marathon of budget hearings with federal lawmakers

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.”

2:41 PM on Wednesday, April 22

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

2:04 PM on Wednesday, April 22

A Houston city ordinance that limited police officers’ cooperation with federal immigration agents has been amended after Texas’ governor had threatened to take away millions of dollars in public safety grants

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

1:03 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 authorities continued to contradict themselves over the role of two CIA agents in a counternarcotics operation in northern Mexico and the extent to which Mexico’s federal government was aware of the U.S. involvement in the incident, which has started to ignite tensions with the White House

10:03 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Parliament has passed a bill to make cigarettes inaccessible to future generations in the U.K. Children born after Dec. 31, 2008, will never be able to buy cigarettes under the new Tobacco and Vapes Bill

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 are jostling for advantage in a chaotic race with no clear leader