Politics & Government News

5:48 PM on Thursday, January 29

The biggest organizing body in rodeo, the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, has all but decided to move its headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado, to Cheyenne, Wyoming

5:47 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump has held his first Cabinet meeting of 2026, focusing on the economy, housing, energy, health initiatives and drug prices

5:46 PM on Thursday, January 29

Venezuela’s acting president signs oil industry overhaul, easing state control to lure foreign investors

5:19 PM on Thursday, January 29

Burkina Faso’s military junta has dissolved all the political parties in the country and scrapped the laws governing them

4:26 PM on Thursday, January 29

4:14 PM on Thursday, January 29

FBI agents have seized hundreds of boxes containing ballots and documents related to the 2020 election from a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia

4:01 PM on Thursday, January 29

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4:00 PM on Thursday, January 29

Venezuelan lawmakers approve easing state control of oil industry, reversing tenet of self-styled socialist government

3:27 PM on Thursday, January 29

Detainees have been pepper-sprayed on at least two occasions at a Florida immigration detention center, dubbed “Deportation Depot,” since opening this past September

3:08 PM on Thursday, January 29

The Army general tapped to lead the NSA is promising to follow the law and the Constitution when it comes to using the NSA's powerful surveillance tools

2:36 PM on Thursday, January 29

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and U.S. President Donald Trump spoke over the phone on Thursday in the midst of a controversy over the arrest of a former Olympic snowboarder

2:13 PM on Thursday, January 29

1:56 PM on Thursday, January 29

Foreign leaders and governments presented to former President Joe Biden, his wife, U.S. Cabinet members and other senior officials tens of thousands of dollars in gifts in the last year of the Biden administration

1:39 PM on Thursday, January 29

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is jumping into the race to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California

1:14 PM on Thursday, January 29

The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis

12:52 PM on Thursday, January 29

11:53 AM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump says he's informed Venezuela’s acting president that he'll open up all commercial airspace over Venezuela

9:08 AM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump’s border czar says immigration enforcement could reduce the number of officers in Minnesota

12:02 AM on Thursday, January 29

If there’s been a soundtrack to life in Minneapolis in recent weeks, it’s the shrieking whistles and honking horns of thousands of people following immigration agents across the city