Politics & Government News

9:30 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion

9:00 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his choice for Federal Reserve chairman on Friday morning

7:41 PM on Thursday, January 29

Aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, and this week’s FBI search of an election office in Georgia have Democratic election officials concerned about what could be in store for this fall’s midterm elections

7:34 PM on Thursday, January 29

The U.N. Security Council has criticized Haitian authorities for the lack of progress in achieving a political transition and called for urgent security sector reforms to tackle increasing violence by gangs and criminal groups

7:10 PM on Thursday, January 29

Trump threatens tariffs on any country selling oil to Cuba, a move that puts pressure on Mexico

6:55 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump is threatening Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade war with America’s northern neighbor as his feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney expands

6:51 PM on Thursday, January 29

Trump threatens Canada with 50% tariff on aircraft sold in US, expanding trade war

6:24 PM on Thursday, January 29

6:20 PM on Thursday, January 29

Democrats and White House reach a deal to avert government shutdown and temporarily fund Homeland Security

3:49 PM on Thursday, January 29

The chief federal judge in Minnesota has added his voice to the weekslong confrontation between the public and the Trump administration's immigration enforcement

11:37 AM on Thursday, January 29

Costa Ricans appear ready to vote to continue supporting the program of outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves in Sunday’s presidential election

11:01 AM on Thursday, January 29

House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation’s voting laws

8:30 AM on Thursday, January 29

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine says immigration officials have ceased their enhanced operations in the state

8:29 AM on Thursday, January 29

Democrats and White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security

7:03 AM on Thursday, January 29

Amy Klobuchar says she's running for governor of Minnesota

5:16 AM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump says he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to target the Ukrainian capital and other towns for one week as the region experiences frigid temperatures and Putin agreed, but Russia hasn't confirmed that

2:03 AM on Thursday, January 29

The European Union is listing Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization over Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests

12:34 AM on Thursday, January 29

Democrats and the White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement

12:02 AM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump is pushing the federal government to back up his bogus claims that widespread fraud cost him reelection in 2020

11:24 PM on Wednesday, January 28

The Philippine foreign secretary says the Association of Southeast Asian Nations does not recognize the recently held elections in Myanmar, the first since the army seized power in 2021