Politics & Government News

6:23 PM on Tuesday, November 25

A federal judge has given the Justice Department a day to say what materials it plans to make publicly available from the file it built to prosecute Ghislaine Maxwell in the sex trafficking case brought against her after financier Jeffrey Epstein died

5:29 PM on Tuesday, November 25

In addition to pardoning two North Carolina turkeys at the annual White House ceremony, President Donald Trump discussed his crime-fighting efforts in Washington, D.C., claiming that it’s been six months since the city has seen a murder

4:47 PM on Tuesday, November 25

4:27 PM on Tuesday, November 25

Top U.S. military officials are meeting leaders of Caribbean nations this week as the Trump administration has escalated its firepower in the region as part of what it calls a campaign against drug trafficking

4:24 PM on Tuesday, November 25

A federal lawsuit filed by U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell accuses the Trump administration’s top housing regulator of abusing his position to misuse private mortgage records belonging to Swalwell and other Democratic critics of the Republican president

3:31 PM on Tuesday, November 25

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered that a pair of three-judge panels hear two lawsuits that argue the battleground state’s congressional maps must be redrawn because they unconstitutionally favor Republicans

3:25 PM on Tuesday, November 25

A brother of former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison for his alleged role in a paramilitary group linked to hundreds of slayings during the peak of Colombia’s civil war

3:09 PM on Tuesday, November 25

Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X unveiled a feature that lets users see where an account is based

3:05 PM on Tuesday, November 25

A court official has dismissed a Justice Department complaint that accused a federal judge of misconduct during hearings for a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender troops serving in the military

2:51 PM on Tuesday, November 25

The Trump administration is seeking to abandon a rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution, arguing that the Biden administration did not have authority to set the tighter standard on pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources

2:43 PM on Tuesday, November 25

Trump says plan to end war in Ukraine has been 'fine-tuned' and he's sending envoys to meet with Putin and Ukrainians

2:32 PM on Tuesday, November 25

DC Mayor Bowser announces she won't seek fourth term, as Trump's federal intervention in the city continues

2:20 PM on Tuesday, November 25

FBI requests interviews with Democratic lawmakers over video urging troops to refuse illegal orders

2:02 PM on Tuesday, November 25

Italy’s parliament has approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison

1:40 PM on Tuesday, November 25

A federal judge’s dismissal of criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney Letitia James, two political foes of President Donald Trump, won’t be the final word on the matter

1:07 PM on Tuesday, November 25

Thousands of Syria’s Alawite minority have protested against what they say is discrimination by the new government

12:48 PM on Tuesday, November 25

Real estate software company RealPage has agreed to stop sharing nonpublic information between landlords as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice

9:31 AM on Tuesday, November 25

The U.S. government has imposed visa restrictions on Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council, and accused him of supporting gangs

8:09 AM on Tuesday, November 25

Authorities say five people were killed, including three children, in a crash on a Colorado highway

9:17 PM on Monday, November 24

Inoperable pistols gifted by FBI Director Kash Patel to senior New Zealand security officials were revolvers inspired by toy Nerf guns and popular among 3D-printed weapons hobbyists