Politics & Government News

4:12 PM on Wednesday, April 1

A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to allow churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status

4:02 PM on Wednesday, April 1

The first foreign troop tied to a new gang-suppression force backed by the United Nations has arrived in Haiti to help quell ongoing violence

3:42 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin warned Armenia, which hopes to eventually join the European Union, that it won’t be able to be part of both the EU and a Moscow-led economic alliance

3:10 PM on Wednesday, April 1

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have announced what they're calling a path forward to fully funding the Department of Homeland Security and ending a record partial government shutdown

3:02 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Some federal and state officials are talking about reducing fuel taxes to ease the burden of high gas prices caused by the war in Iran

2:40 PM on Wednesday, April 1

President Donald Trump has attended oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a first for a sitting president

2:23 PM on Wednesday, April 1

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says his office has persuaded a securities firm to return $6.7 million to investors

1:48 PM on Wednesday, April 1

10:32 AM on Wednesday, April 1

A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump isn’t immune from civil claims that he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

9:18 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO

8:46 AM on Wednesday, April 1

8:43 AM on Wednesday, April 1

The U.S. Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments over the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally or temporarily

8:30 AM on Wednesday, April 1

2:40 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump says he would bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages” if the Islamic Republic doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz

12:21 AM on Wednesday, April 1

A U.S. resident of 27 years who was deported to Mexico by the Trump administration has returned home to Sacramento

12:07 AM on Wednesday, April 1

TMZ is turning its celebrity lens on Congress, tracking lawmakers on recess as a nearly six-week Department of Homeland Security shutdown drags on

12:03 AM on Wednesday, April 1

The Supreme Court seems poised to reject President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a consequential case that was magnified by his unparalleled presence in the courtroom

Wednesday, April 1

U.S. President Donald Trump claims Iran’s president wanted a ceasefire ahead of his speech to the American people

2:58 PM on Tuesday, March 31

The European Union's energy commissioner says skyrocketing oil and gas prices in Europe as a result of the ongoing Iran war won’t return to normal levels any time soon, even if peace is declared tomorrow

8:07 AM on Saturday, March 28