Politics & Government News

11:10 PM on Friday, November 21

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has announced she will resign from Congress on January 5, 2026

9:41 PM on Friday, November 21

President Donald Trump says he’s “immediately” ending temporary legal protections for Somali migrants in Minnesota

9:12 PM on Friday, November 21

A United Nations human rights official is urging the United States to lift its sanctions on Cuba, saying they are impacting the island’s entire population, hitting sectors including health care, nutrition and education

8:42 PM on Friday, November 21

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has broken the glass ceiling to become Japan's first female leader

8:17 PM on Friday, November 21

Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Trump loyalist-turned critic, says she is resigning from Congress in January

8:15 PM on Friday, November 21

Two senators who lead a bipartisan antisemitism task force say they want more information from the U.S. Coast Guard about its policy regarding displays of swastikas, nooses or other hate symbols

7:45 PM on Friday, November 21

Supreme Court temporarily blocks lower court ruling that found Texas congressional map likely racially discriminatory

7:00 PM on Friday, November 21

The Kennedy Center is receiving $7.4 million ahead of the World Cup draw next month

6:37 PM on Friday, November 21

The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’ 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by President Donald Trump likely discriminates on the basis of race

6:35 PM on Friday, November 21

Texas seeks Supreme Court order to use a congressional map that lower court ruled is likely racially biased

5:56 PM on Friday, November 21

President Donald Trump and New York's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani come from opposite parties and have spent months sniping at each other

4:43 PM on Friday, November 21

North Dakota’s overturned abortion ban is back on the books after the state’s highest court could not muster the majority required to deem it unconstitutional

4:35 PM on Friday, November 21

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is appealing a ruling that has stalled the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others for trying to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss in the state

3:43 PM on Friday, November 21

Authorities have arrested seven local bodyguards in connection with the assassination of a popular mayor in western Mexico

3:08 PM on Friday, November 21

The daughter of a detained Chinese Christian pastor is urging U.S. lawmakers to help free her father at a time when President Donald Trump has vowed to “save our Great Christian population” worldwide

10:13 AM on Friday, November 21

Fátima Bosch Fernández’s Miss Universe victory is resounding across Mexico

8:18 AM on Friday, November 21

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says she is resigning from Congress in January

7:34 AM on Friday, November 21

Philippine police teams have been deployed to arrest 18 suspects in a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that has sparked huge protests and forced implicated congressional leaders to step down

5:43 AM on Friday, November 21

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told his country that it could face a pivotal choice between standing up for its sovereignty and preserving the American support it needs, as leaders discuss a U.S. peace proposal seen as favoring Russia

12:01 AM on Friday, November 21

President Donald Trump has met the man who had proudly proclaimed himself “Donald Trump’s worst nightmare,” but he seemed to find the opposite