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

3:02 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

2:23 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

10:56 AM on Wednesday, April 1

King Charles III will deliver an address to Congress during his visit to Washington in late April

10:47 AM on Wednesday, April 1

French President Emmanuel Macron has held talks with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Japan

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

10:09 AM on Wednesday, April 1

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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

6:05 AM on Wednesday, April 1

U.S. and Iraqi officials say U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was warned of threats before she was kidnapped in Baghdad

3:56 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Should the United States decide to send in military forces to secure Iran’s uranium stockpile, experts and former U.S. government officials say it would be a complex, risky and lengthy operation, fraught with radiation and chemical dangers

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

12:10 AM on Wednesday, April 1

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance are both seen as the Republican Party’s strongest potential candidates in the next presidential election, but the Iran war could prove to be a political millstone for them

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

10:13 PM on Tuesday, March 31

President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a Supreme Court hearing in which judges will hear arguments on his executive order limiting birthright citizenship

9:53 PM on Tuesday, March 31

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem

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