Politics & Government News

10:16 PM on Friday, July 31

The Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences have agreed to support a Senate bill that seeks to regulate college sports, ending a breakneck week of negotiations and pulling the bipartisan measure out of what looked like a certain death spiral

8:28 PM on Friday, July 31

Gilberto Cárdenas, a highly respected sociologist who many considered a great advocate for advancing Latino and Chicano identity through academia and art, has died

6:56 PM on Friday, July 31

Disgraced former Congressman George Santos has agreed to pay $35,000 to settle a federal investigation into his suspicious trades on the prediction marketplace Kalshi

6:42 PM on Friday, July 31

Labour Party candidate Bev Craig has been elected mayor of Greater Manchester after Andy Burnham left that job to become Britain's prime minister

6:16 PM on Friday, July 31

The Justice Department has moved to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

5:33 PM on Friday, July 31

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials to help Ukraine gain permission from tech titan Elon Musk to use Starlink for guiding strikes inside Russia

3:50 PM on Friday, July 31

President Donald Trump is claiming, without evidence, that recent cyberattacks in Minnesota were the fault of the state, including Democratic Gov. Tim Walz

3:40 PM on Friday, July 31

Massachusetts is close to giving doctors the final say on whether to perform late abortions

3:30 PM on Friday, July 31

Authorities have released an early ransom note in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in hopes that someone will recognize the writing style

2:58 PM on Friday, July 31

Migrant children who came to the U.S. alone could soon face immigration court without legal representation

2:38 PM on Friday, July 31

The Trump administration wants to make sure that the Mexican train crews hauling freight just over the border can understand key safety information in English and that the common practice of using foreign crews to cross into America doesn’t threaten U.S. jobs

2:34 PM on Friday, July 31

The State Department is making permanent a pilot program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, and it’s raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000

2:28 PM on Friday, July 31

A crisis at the border in Ceuta, a Spanish territory in North Africa, has led to unsubstantiated claims about Spain’s migration policies

10:53 AM on Friday, July 31

A main development in the Middle East is that the White House is signaling that President Donald Trump is weighing carrying out new strikes on Iran

10:42 AM on Friday, July 31

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced an agreement for disarmament of Hamas in Gaza and Israel's withdrawal from the area

8:34 AM on Friday, July 31

Hamas says it has reached an agreement to disarm

3:22 AM on Friday, July 31

Tens of thousands of migrants who crossed into Spain’s tiny Ceuta territory have returned voluntarily to Morocco

Friday, July 31

President Donald Trump takes his Cabinet meeting to Camp David, using the setting to highlight his administration's achievements

1:41 PM on Thursday, July 30

Millions of older adults on Medicare prescription drug coverage could face higher monthly costs in 2027

1:03 PM on Thursday, July 30

Thousands of migrants have entered the Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco, with at least 57 dying in the attempt, prompting local officials to seek help from Spain's national government