Politics & Government News

7:23 PM on Friday, December 5

The West Virginia National Guard member who survived last week’s shooting in Washington is slowly healing

7:16 PM on Friday, December 5

The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off

7:15 PM on Friday, December 5

The Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation into whether U.S. airlines complied with an emergency order to cut flights at 40 major airports during the recent government shutdown

6:28 PM on Friday, December 5

The government picked a company with little experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control system

5:17 PM on Friday, December 5

The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein

4:38 PM on Friday, December 5

Vanity Fair is parting ways with West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi amid controversy over her past coverage of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A statement Friday from Nuzzi and the magazine says they have mutually agreed to let her contract expire at the end of the year

4:33 PM on Friday, December 5

Rep. Darrell Issa tells the Associated Press he isn’t moving to Texas to run for Congress

4:08 PM on Friday, December 5

A federal judge has questioned the Trump administration’s authority and need to maintain command of California National Guard troops it first deployed to Los Angeles in June following violent protests

4:03 PM on Friday, December 5

Members of Congress now know that the U.S. military fired upon two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs — and they want answers

3:43 PM on Friday, December 5

3:28 PM on Friday, December 5

An international body tasked with governing the Gaza Strip under the next phase of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire is expected to be announced by the end of the year

2:58 PM on Friday, December 5

The Social Security Administration plans to cut foot traffic to its field offices by 50% next year

2:53 PM on Friday, December 5

Florida’s Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow new oil drilling off the state’s coast

1:29 PM on Friday, December 5

Indiana state House lawmakers have passed a new congressional map that could net Republicans two seats

1:25 PM on Friday, December 5

A prosecutor says the man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington on the eve of the U.S. Capitol attack told investigators he was “disappointed” in the outcome of the 2020 presidential election

12:56 PM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump has finally met with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum

12:35 PM on Friday, December 5

FIFA gives its new peace prize to President Donald Trump

10:28 AM on Friday, December 5

The FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., has divided 48 teams into 12 groups

5:39 AM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they’ll meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for postwar Ukraine

8:01 PM on Wednesday, December 3

The Trump administration has renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace after President Donald Trump and planted the president’s name on the organization’s headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute’s control