Politics & Government News

2:54 PM on Monday, October 6

Republicans have seized on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a bid to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally

2:49 PM on Monday, October 6

California's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the City of El Cajon, alleging its police department has repeatedly violated state law by sharing license plate reader data with law enforcement agencies in other states

2:10 PM on Monday, October 6

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana

1:29 PM on Monday, October 6

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans

1:19 PM on Monday, October 6

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is warning lawmakers not to fall for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to divide Europe and wants them to work together for the bloc’s 450 million citizens

12:55 PM on Monday, October 6

Palestinians in Gaza are anxiously following indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas officials in Egypt

12:52 PM on Monday, October 6

Maine's state auditor and former secretary of state, Matt Dunlap, has announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jared Golden in the midterm primary

12:51 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugee into the U.S. this year – as few as 7,500, and mostly white Afrikaners

12:01 PM on Monday, October 6

U.S. government lawyers say detainees at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings

12:00 PM on Monday, October 6

Venezuela has warned of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives

11:40 AM on Monday, October 6

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to lift the 40% tariff on Brazilian imports

9:32 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein

8:11 AM on Monday, October 6

Republicans and Democrats have begun pouring money into an election this November for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

6:56 AM on Monday, October 6

An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement

6:34 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court has opened its new term

6:23 AM on Monday, October 6

Republican congressman Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign

5:57 AM on Monday, October 6

A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini

5:12 AM on Monday, October 6

Syria's first parliamentary elections since the ouster of former President Bashar Assad have revealed deep divisions among the country's minority communities

4:02 AM on Monday, October 6

France's new prime minister has resigned just a day after naming his government and following less than a month in office

3:46 PM on Sunday, October 5

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city