Politics & Government News

12:05 AM on Thursday, February 5

Jesse Jackson Jr. has launched a spirited primary bid for his old U.S. House seat

11:45 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Taiwan’s ties with the United States are “rock solid,” the island’s president said Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke on the phone, including about the self-ruled island’s future

7:27 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Guan Heng, a Chinese asylum seeker who exposed human rights abuses in his homeland, has been released after more than five months in federal detention

6:57 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual

6:46 PM on Wednesday, February 4

Trump administration officials traveled to Los Angeles to outline the president’s plan to override state and local rules and speed up the permitting process for reconstruction of tens of thousands of homes destroyed by last year’s wildfires

6:23 PM on Wednesday, February 4

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6:00 PM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump is taking steps toward installing a statue of Christopher Columbus near the White House

4:53 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons is recommending that surgeons delay gender-affirming surgeries until patients turn 19, including chest, genital and facial surgeries

11:46 AM on Wednesday, February 4

NBC “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie has sent a public message to her mother's kidnapper saying that her family is ready to talk but wants proof that she is alive

10:53 AM on Wednesday, February 4

President Donald Trump says he and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed the situation in Iran in a wide-ranging call as the U.S. administration pushes Beijing and others to further isolate Tehran

9:45 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Syria's state-owned petroleum company has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chevron and a Qatari energy investment company to develop the country's first offshore oil and gas field

9:44 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Officials in Georgia’s Fulton County have asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other documents from the 2020 election that it seized last week, The move escalates a voting battle as President Donald Trump says he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas with the November midterms on the horizon

9:27 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The Washington Post has laid off one-third of its staff, eliminating its sports section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage

8:48 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has confirmed that Iran and the United States will hold nuclear talks in Oman’s capital, Muscat, on Friday

8:08 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Border czar Tom Homan said the Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants

7:06 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign of federal immigration enforcement

5:58 AM on Wednesday, February 4

The British government has agreed to release documents related to Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador to the U.S. despite his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

5:02 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Russian President Vladimir Putin has discussed the burgeoning economic cooperation between Moscow and Beijing and their relations with the United States in a video call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping

2:44 AM on Wednesday, February 4

Emotional medical staff on the Greek island of Chios have spoken of frantic efforts to identify the parents of injured children after an overnight collision between a coast guard patrol boat and a speedboat carrying migrants

12:03 AM on Wednesday, February 4

A federal judge appears poised to again reject President Donald Trump’s bid to erase his hush money conviction, slamming his lawyers for legal maneuvers he said amounted to taking “two bites at the apple.”