Politics & Government News

9:45 PM on Friday, December 12

A federal judge says the Justice Department violated the constitutional rights of a close friend of James Comey and must return to him computer files that prosecutors had hoped to use for a potential criminal case against the former FBI director

9:06 PM on Friday, December 12

A Bolivian court has ordered the country’s former President Luis Arce to remain detained for five months while he awaits trial on corruption charges

9:04 PM on Friday, December 12

Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers

8:03 PM on Friday, December 12

The federal government’s crackdown on commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants has now found problems in eight states in the wake of several deadly crashes

6:45 PM on Friday, December 12

The Transportation Security Administration is renewing efforts to end a collective bargaining agreement with airport screening officers

6:32 PM on Friday, December 12

The Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee is threatening contempt of Congress proceedings against Bill and Hillary Clinton

5:47 PM on Friday, December 12

Indiana Republican senators turned down President Donald Trump's redistricting proposal this week

5:36 PM on Friday, December 12

Puerto Rico tax incentives that have lured thousands of rich Americans to the U.S. territory for over a decade are under scrutiny after federal legislators released a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office

5:03 PM on Friday, December 12

The Senate failed to get anywhere on health care this week

4:27 PM on Friday, December 12

2:59 PM on Friday, December 12

The United States has accused Rwanda of violating a peace agreement by supporting a rebel offensive in eastern Congo

2:35 PM on Friday, December 12

Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker has signed

2:06 PM on Friday, December 12

The U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country

2:05 PM on Friday, December 12

The U.S. has removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list

1:28 PM on Friday, December 12

The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March

11:22 AM on Friday, December 12

President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project

10:44 AM on Friday, December 12

The federal government continues to find states improperly issuing commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants that remain valid after their authorization to be in the country expires, putting millions of dollars of funding at risk

10:41 AM on Friday, December 12

President Donald Trump says he hasn’t seen the photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate released Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, but says they are not a big deal

9:06 AM on Friday, December 12

President Donald Trump says Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes threatened to undo a ceasefire that the U.S. administration helped broker this year

12:02 AM on Friday, December 12

A pair of lawsuits seeking to redraw congressional boundary lines that currently favor Republicans in Wisconsin are on track to be resolved after the 2026 midterms