Politics & Government News

12:15 AM on Tuesday, February 3

Iran's president says he instructed foreign minister to 'pursue fair and equitable negotiations' with the United States

9:52 PM on Monday, February 2

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has told lawmakers that she attended an FBI search of the election center in Fulton County, Georgia, last week because President Donald Trump asked her to be there

8:59 PM on Monday, February 2

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday he doesn’t expect Bad Bunny to say anything divisive during his Super Bowl halftime performance

8:06 PM on Monday, February 2

The Clintons agree to testify in House Epstein probe, bowing to pressure ahead of contempt of Congress vote

7:58 PM on Monday, February 2

The Maryland House has approved a new congressional map that could enable Democrats to win the state’s only Republican-held U.S. House seat, but leadership in the state Senate has consistently said since October the bill doesn’t have support in that chamber

7:41 PM on Monday, February 2

The Alabama Republican Party on Sunday dismissed a challenge filed by an opponent to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s candidacy for governor

7:23 PM on Monday, February 2

Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending legal protections for 350,000 Haitians

6:34 PM on Monday, February 2

Legal experts say President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax information raises a host of conflict of interest questions

5:14 PM on Monday, February 2

President Donald Trump says he won't tear down the Kennedy Center

4:52 PM on Monday, February 2

The secretary of Homeland Security is requiring that all the department's officers on the ground in Minneapolis wear body cameras

2:13 PM on Monday, February 2

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States

1:27 PM on Monday, February 2

Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are agreeing to testify in a House investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

1:25 PM on Monday, February 2

The Justice Department says it has taken down several thousand documents and “media” that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information after lawyers for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's victims complained of insufficient redactions

12:54 PM on Monday, February 2

The father of a 5-year-old boy detained by immigration officers in Texas denies abandoning his son

12:27 PM on Monday, February 2

President Donald Trump says he plans to lower tariffs on goods from India to 18%, from 25%, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil

8:36 AM on Monday, February 2

Republican leadership in the House is hoping to begin the process of reopening the government by advancing a funding package that passed the Senate last week

6:52 AM on Monday, February 2

A new round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine is set to go ahead this week

12:25 AM on Monday, February 2

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the first time without the Assad dynasty in power

12:01 AM on Monday, February 2

President Donald Trump is imploring the House to end the partial government shutdown

9:17 AM on Saturday, January 31