Politics & Government News

8:02 PM on Monday, August 24

The California Senate has passed a bill to fine content creators who don’t disclose they were paid to post in support of a political candidate or issue on the ballot

7:05 PM on Monday, August 24

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has promised to deport thousands of migrants who are in the country without residence permits

6:50 PM on Monday, August 24

Mexico has resumed live cattle exports to the United States after they were halted for nearly two years by restrictions imposed by the Trump administration following a screwworm outbreak

6:44 PM on Monday, August 24

The United States is urging beefed up U.N. sanctions against the warring parties in Sudan to build pressure on them to negotiate an end to fighting

5:52 PM on Monday, August 24

President Donald Trump is moving toward imposing a new tariff on China to penalize Beijing for flooding the global market with underpriced goods

5:42 PM on Monday, August 24

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has distanced himself from progressive online commentator Hasan Piker

5:40 PM on Monday, August 24

Robert White Jr., the District of Columbia's presumptive delegate to Congress, has unveiled a plan to counter Republican interventions in the city's affairs

5:26 PM on Monday, August 24

The U.S. Forest Service is taking public comment on a rare-earth element mining project in northeast Wyoming

5:10 PM on Monday, August 24

4:50 PM on Monday, August 24

The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in a case over President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much can be implemented before the fast-approaching midterm elections

4:30 PM on Monday, August 24

The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the visas of up to 200,000 foreigners who have applied for or are currently seeking asylum status in the United States

3:59 PM on Monday, August 24

The California Supreme Court is considering whether Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco must return seized election ballots

2:34 PM on Monday, August 24

Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman are wrapping up their campaigns for South Carolina's Republican nomination in a special U.S. Senate primary

2:10 PM on Monday, August 24

The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled new requirements for mail ballots less than two weeks before some states begin sending them

11:06 AM on Monday, August 24

Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in an ambush in South Sudan

10:43 AM on Monday, August 24

Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday after relations deteriorated sharply Monday

9:02 AM on Monday, August 24

The U.S. has reopened a border crossing in Arizona to cattle from Mexico as part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to reduce near-record-high beef prices

8:32 AM on Monday, August 24

The Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to move ahead with his executive order restricting mail-in voting, though it remains unclear how much his administration can implement before the fast-approaching midterm elections

4:27 AM on Monday, August 24

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has announced a new round of sanctions aimed at Iran

3:15 AM on Monday, August 24

European leaders joined President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv for the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day