Politics & Government News

5:06 PM on Tuesday, January 27

CBS News chief Bari Weiss told her staff that “we're toast” if the network continues with its current business strategy and invoked legendary newsman Walter Cronkite as a symbol of old thinking

4:47 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Authorities release Ecuadorian man whose case led judge to order ICE leader to appear in Minneapolis court, lawyer says

4:42 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered Texas universities and state agencies on Tuesday to halt new H-1B visa petitions until next year

4:29 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Federal judge issues temporary order prohibiting removal of 5-year-old boy and father who were detained in Minnesota

4:25 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Judge says Democrats' redistricting proposal to let Virginia redraw congressional map before midterm election is illegal

4:01 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Yale University is eliminating tuition for new undergraduates from families earning less than $100,000 a year

3:48 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Colombia has blasted Ecuador’s decision to increase transportation fees for Colombian oil

3:24 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Italy says Israel’s ambassador has pledged an investigation after two Italian officers were held up by an Israeli with an automatic weapon in the West Bank

3:07 PM on Tuesday, January 27

A Chicago carpenter cleared of accusations that he put a $10,000 bounty on the life of a Border Patrol commander’s life has been taken into immigration custody

1:48 PM on Tuesday, January 27

12:53 PM on Tuesday, January 27

Families of two Trinidadian nationals killed in a Trump administration boat strike last October are suing the federal government, calling the attack a war crime and part of an “unprecedented and manifestly unlawful U_S_ military campaign.”

11:57 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Prize-winning composer Philip Glass has canceled the world premiere of his symphony about Abraham Lincoln at the Kennedy Center

10:59 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Neil Young is offering free access to his entire music catalog to residents of Greenland

10:57 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has told U.S. President Donald Trump that he stands by his comments made at the World Economic Forum in Davos

10:28 AM on Tuesday, January 27

A former French senator has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison for drugging a fellow lawmaker

10:12 AM on Tuesday, January 27

President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown has contributed to a year-to-year drop in the U.S. growth rate as the nation's population hit nearly 342 million people in 2025

9:21 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Russian forces have started withdrawing from positions in northeast Syria still controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces

8:39 AM on Tuesday, January 27

The commander of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is leaving the city after federal agents fatally shot two people in less than three weeks

5:32 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Officials in Ukraine say that a heavy Russian drone attack on Odesa has killed at least three people and wounded 23, including children and a pregnant woman

12:14 AM on Tuesday, January 27

Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped elicit a White House turnabout this week after bristling over the administration’s characterization of Alex Pretti as responsible for his own death because he lawfully possessed a weapon