Politics & Government News

6:00 PM on Saturday, February 21

President Donald Trump has approved emergency assistance to Washington, D.C., to help the city address a sewage system leak that dumped at least 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River

4:13 PM on Saturday, February 21

The Islamic State group has released a new audio message that attacks Syria’s interim president and urges supporters to strike Jewish and Western targets worldwide

3:58 PM on Saturday, February 21

JPMorgan Chase now confirms it closed Donald Trump’s bank accounts after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

3:12 PM on Saturday, February 21

Brazil and India have signed a new deal to cooperate on rare earths and other critical minerals

12:21 PM on Saturday, February 21

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the U.K. and its European allies should immediately deploy noncombat troops to Ukraine to show Russian President Vladimir Putin that Western nations are truly committed to the nation’s freedom and independence

11:42 AM on Saturday, February 21

Venezuela’s government says it is freeing large numbers of people held for political reasons after passing a new amnesty law

11:29 AM on Saturday, February 21

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier

11:19 AM on Saturday, February 21

Trump says he is going to raise global tariff to 15%, up from 10%, after Supreme Court defeat

11:06 AM on Saturday, February 21

Business chiefs and government leaders are poring over the fallout of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that invalidated some tariffs by President Donald Trump's administration and his response to it

10:36 AM on Saturday, February 21

Arab and Muslim countries are sharply condemning comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, who said in an interview that Israel had a right to much of the Middle East

8:30 AM on Saturday, February 21

Governors have gathered for the annual National Governors Association dinner after a tense week

8:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is encountering some pushback as it undertakes a $45 billion expansion of detention centers

8:06 AM on Saturday, February 21

At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers

8:02 AM on Saturday, February 21

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent

7:30 AM on Saturday, February 21

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States

7:12 AM on Saturday, February 21

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is the potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use

7:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

Some Republicans seemed relieved at the news that the Supreme Court had struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime

6:53 AM on Saturday, February 21

Hungary says it is blocking a major EU loan for Ukraine until Russian oil starts flowing again through the Druzhba pipeline

5:39 AM on Saturday, February 21

About 3,000 people have joined a far-right march in the French city of Lyon after a 23-year-old nationalist activist died from a beating last week

11:43 AM on Friday, February 20

A partisan battle to redraw U.S. House districts is raging in some states, even as campaigns get underway