Politics & Government News

7:47 PM on Tuesday, June 9

The November race to determine California’s next governor will pit a Democrat promising to cement the state’s status as a stronghold of liberal policies against a Republican pledging to dramatically reverse course

7:42 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Republicans in Congress are introducing impeachment resolutions against a federal judge in Atlanta

4:32 PM on Tuesday, June 9

4:21 PM on Tuesday, June 9

The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people from Ebola-hit countries in Africa

4:15 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Brazilian police have rescued more than 100 Cuban migrants from human smugglers at the northern border with Guyana

4:05 PM on Tuesday, June 9

President Donald Trump seems to bring bad luck to home teams when he attends big games

4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba

3:39 PM on Tuesday, June 9

A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millions of tax dollars were wasted on contractors

3:20 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella is urging prosecutors to investigate possible voter coercion by rebel groups in favor of governing party candidate Iván Cepeda

12:46 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than previously expected

11:26 AM on Tuesday, June 9

President Donald Trump last year dramatically ratcheted up the fee for H-1B work visas to $100,000, saying it would protect American workers from losing their jobs to lower-paid foreigners

11:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with enough information about prices

10:49 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Vice President JD Vance is pressing federal prosecutors to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison over allegations they failed to stop widespread social services fraud, amplifying concerns the White House will use a new Justice Department division to target political rivals

10:48 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon

9:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says things are getting a lot better

8:28 AM on Tuesday, June 9

The U.S. military says it has carried out strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic

8:04 AM on Tuesday, June 9

House Republicans have passed a nearly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years and the rest of President Donald Trump's term in office

7:25 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently

7:02 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Renderings of a dramatically redesigned Pennsylvania Station in New York City have been released by Amtrak and the developers

7:03 PM on Monday, June 8

A federal judge has questioned a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official about the government’s process for refunding billions of dollars importers paid before the Supreme Court struck down some of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump