Politics & Government News

6:30 PM on Thursday, April 2

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused China of “bullying” by detaining or holding up dozens of Panama-flagged ships

4:08 PM on Thursday, April 2

4:07 PM on Thursday, April 2

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order for California to independently review federal supply-chain risk designations for businesses

3:56 PM on Thursday, April 2

A new Kentucky law could shield agrochemical maker Bayer from lawsuits claiming it failed to warn that Roundup weedkiller could cause cancer

2:42 PM on Thursday, April 2

A drone maker backed by President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to win contracts with Gulf countries under threat by Iran and protected by the U.S. military led by their father

2:33 PM on Thursday, April 2

Governors in Florida and Mississippi have signed laws requiring officials to verify voters' citizenship

2:24 PM on Thursday, April 2

The Trump administration has scaled back its plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

2:06 PM on Thursday, April 2

An inspection at the nation’s largest immigration detention facility found dozens of violations of national standards that potentially exposed detainees to excessive force, disease, and other unsafe conditions

1:57 PM on Thursday, April 2

The Belarus parliament has passed a bill to introduce punishments for people who promote LGBTQ+ causes, in an echo of similar laws that have been set up in neighboring ally Russia

1:27 PM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump said Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general

1:18 PM on Thursday, April 2

The president of the multicampus Universities of Wisconsin has said in letters obtained by The Associated Press that he has been told to resign or he will be fired

12:42 PM on Thursday, April 2

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order blocking the federal government from taking punitive measures against artificial intelligence company Anthropic after a dispute with the Pentagon over military use of AI

12:37 PM on Thursday, April 2

Mississippi lawmakers have passed a bill that could imprison people for up to 10 years for distributing abortion-inducing medication

12:33 PM on Thursday, April 2

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student fighting deportation, have asked Judge Emil Bove to step aside from an appellate panel that could weigh in on his case because of Bove’s previous role as a top Justice Department official involved in investigating student protesters

12:25 PM on Thursday, April 2

The husband of a South Florida vice mayor has been charged with fatally shooting his wife at their home, according to an affidavit

11:30 AM on Thursday, April 2

Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, according to Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov

11:27 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump says Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general

11:08 AM on Thursday, April 2

A Colorado appeals court has ruled that a former county clerk convicted in a scheme that attempted to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election should be resentenced

6:25 AM on Thursday, April 2

Pakistan confirms it is holding peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government in China

12:06 AM on Thursday, April 2

President Donald Trump says he'll soon sign an order to pay all Department of Homeland Security employees who have gone without paychecks during the partial government shutdown that has reached 48 days