Politics & Government News

10:00 PM on Thursday, December 11

9:12 PM on Thursday, December 11

President Donald Trump has issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters, a former Colorado elections administrator convicted of a data breach scheme tied to false claims of election fraud

8:35 PM on Thursday, December 11

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore billions in canceled FEMA disaster mitigation funding

7:55 PM on Thursday, December 11

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to block states from regulating artificial intelligence

7:37 PM on Thursday, December 11

More than 18,000 Amtrak workers will receive a $900 bonus before the end of the year, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation

7:31 PM on Thursday, December 11

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul wins royal approval to dissolve Parliament and hold elections early next year

7:03 PM on Thursday, December 11

A Democratic Senator says the head of the Federal Aviation Administration has not sold off his multimillion-dollar stake in the airline he led since 1999 despite a promise to do so as part of his ethics agreement

6:53 PM on Thursday, December 11

A Canadian Conservative lawmaker has defected from his party and joined Prime Minister Mark Carney’s governing Liberals

6:46 PM on Thursday, December 11

The U.S. Mint has unveiled designs for coins commemorating the 250th anniversary of American independence

5:57 PM on Thursday, December 11

The House voted to repeal President Donald Trump's executive order from earlier this year that aimed to remove collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees

5:33 PM on Thursday, December 11

The Federal Reserve’s governing board unanimously approved the reappointment of nearly all of the Fed’s 12 regional bank presidents, a group that has come under scrutiny by the Trump administration

3:29 PM on Thursday, December 11

A grand jury has declined for a second time in a week to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James

2:34 PM on Thursday, December 11

The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to remove certain items from gift shops

2:09 PM on Thursday, December 11

A presidentially appointed council's meeting to announce reforms to FEMA was unexpectedly canceled, according to two people familiar with the matter

1:53 PM on Thursday, December 11

A man accused of killing a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train has appeared in federal court

1:11 PM on Thursday, December 11

Senators from both parties are pushing to change a defense bill after crash investigators and victims' families warned it could undo key safety reforms

8:01 AM on Thursday, December 11

The Senate has rejected two partisan health bills on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year

12:06 AM on Thursday, December 11

The Utah man charged with killing Charlie Kirk has made his first in-person court appearance as his attorneys push to further limit media access in the high-profile criminal case

12:04 AM on Thursday, December 11

In a resounding rejection of a pressure campaign from the White House, Indiana Republican Senators voted down a new congressional map created to give the GOP an advantage in the upcoming 2026 election

4:44 PM on Thursday, November 20

Kilmar Abrego Garcia entered the news in March 2025 after he was deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling that should have prevented it