Politics & Government News

5:10 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Trump administration renews push to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge

4:14 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has pushed to restrict how license plates are scanned by law enforcement

3:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

California lawmakers are demanding answers after a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last weekend led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5, striking two California Highway Patrol vehicles

3:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading up to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

3:36 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

3:33 PM on Thursday, October 23

A Florida family is urging U.S. leaders to help free a 16-year-old Palestinian-American held in an Israeli prison for eight months

3:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

Some public figures carry threats to their livelihood in the palms of their hands

2:55 PM on Thursday, October 23

The New Orleans City Council held an emergency budget hearing to discuss a cash flow problem that may mean it doesn't have enough money to pay its bills for the rest of the year

2:50 PM on Thursday, October 23

The state of Michigan is suspending incentives and seeking to claw back millions from a Chinese business behind an electric vehicle battery plant project in northern Michigan after the project has been riddled with pushback from locals and national Republicans

2:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

A federal food aid program that helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown

2:34 PM on Thursday, October 23

As federal agents ramp up an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an increasing number of elected officials in the Democratic stronghold are getting caught in the crosshairs

2:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayor’s race next month, he would become the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in a century

12:43 PM on Thursday, October 23

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine

11:41 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange

11:19 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located

4:30 AM on Thursday, October 23

The European Union has heaped more economic sanctions on Russia, adding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new punitive measures the previous day against the Russian oil industry

4:09 AM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation

3:53 AM on Thursday, October 23

European Union leaders have ordered the bloc’s executive branch to come up with options for meeting Ukraine’s pressing economic and military needs over the next two years

12:04 PM on Wednesday, October 22

National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes

4:44 PM on Tuesday, October 21