Politics & Government News

7:17 PM on Thursday, September 4

Gabriel Sterling, known for defending Georgia's 2020 election results, is running for the state's secretary of state

7:17 PM on Thursday, September 4

6:55 PM on Thursday, September 4

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War

6:51 PM on Thursday, September 4

6:43 PM on Thursday, September 4

A reconstruction of the aborted deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children on Labor Day weekend illuminates the latest clash between the administration’s desire for mass deportations and longstanding legal protections for migrants

6:30 PM on Thursday, September 4

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's strategy of managing a tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump may be running up against wider regional tensions and a lack of willingness by the Trump administration to make concessions

6:06 PM on Thursday, September 4

Argentina’s senate has dealt a blow to President Javier Milei’s libertarian agenda overriding his veto on raising disability benefits

5:58 PM on Thursday, September 4

5:42 PM on Thursday, September 4

Joe Biden recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer lesions

4:45 PM on Thursday, September 4

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing

4:29 PM on Thursday, September 4

Some Missouri residents are denouncing a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump

4:08 PM on Thursday, September 4

Leaders of a Chicago suburb that houses a federal immigration processing center say they were told that the Trump administration's promised immigration enforcement surge will run for about six weeks

2:59 PM on Thursday, September 4

New York’s attorney general is moving to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Donald Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty

2:47 PM on Thursday, September 4

Florida is set to become the first state in the nation to remove vaccine mandates

2:20 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas as part of an investigation into mortgage fraud allegations against Lisa Cook, who is fighting a Trump administration effort to remove her from her role as a Federal Reserve governor

1:49 PM on Thursday, September 4

Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university’s response to campus protests

11:05 AM on Thursday, September 4

The District of Columbia is challenging President Donald Trump’s use of the National Guard in Washington

10:56 AM on Thursday, September 4

Republican lawmakers in Congress are moving to eliminate limits on energy development in several Western states

4:18 AM on Thursday, September 4

Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have pledged mutual support and enhanced cooperation during talks in Beijing

12:02 AM on Thursday, September 4

A federal appeals court panel has put on hold a lower court judge’s order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”