Politics & Government News

8:09 PM on Monday, August 11

Trump extends trade truce with China for another 90 days, delaying a showdown between the world’s two biggest economies

6:50 PM on Monday, August 11

6:10 PM on Monday, August 11

The United States and China have clashed at the United Nations over the Panama Canal

5:03 PM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump took unprecedented steps toward federalizing Washington, D

4:11 PM on Monday, August 11

In justifying a federal take over of policing in Washington, D

3:16 PM on Monday, August 11

DC Mayor Bowser calls Trump's police takeover 'unsettling and unprecedented' but says city isn't 'totally surprised'

2:56 PM on Monday, August 11

Maine can’t enforce a voter-approved foreign election interference law that a federal appeals court says likely violates the Constitution by limiting political donations

2:28 PM on Monday, August 11

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1:58 PM on Monday, August 11

A Republican lawmaker in South Carolina has resigned from the House while awaiting trial on charges of distributing child sexual abuse material

11:14 AM on Monday, August 11

A Food and Drug Administration official who stepped down less than two weeks ago is getting his job back as the agency’s top vaccine regulator

10:53 AM on Monday, August 11

Migrants in Greece with rejected asylum claims will soon be required to wear ankle monitors to speed up deportations

10:29 AM on Monday, August 11

Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives has passed transportation funding legislation in a last-ditch effort to stave off deep service cuts at the Philadelphia region’s public transit agency

9:35 AM on Monday, August 11

Nvidia and AMD agreed to share 15% of their revenues from chip sales to China with the U.S. government, President Donald Trump confirmed at a press conference on Monday

7:55 AM on Monday, August 11

Ukraine and its European backers are seeking talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in an effort to protect their security interests ahead of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this week

5:55 AM on Monday, August 11

Iran has announced that upcoming talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency will be "technical" and "complicated."

12:15 AM on Monday, August 11

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has met Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto to strengthen economic ties

12:02 AM on Monday, August 11

President Donald Trump says he’s taking over Washington’s police department and activating 800 members of the National Guard in the hopes of reducing crime, even as city officials stressed crime is already falling in the nation’s capital

12:01 AM on Monday, August 11

Texas Republicans were unable again Monday to approve new congressional districts to meet President Donald Trump’s demands

Monday, August 11

A federal judge is hearing arguments on whether military troops deployed this summer by the Trump administration to Los Angeles violated a federal law that bars troops from conducting law enforcement duties within the country