Politics & Government News

6:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Florida's chief financial officer has issued subpoenas to Orange County workers, saying they did not fully cooperate with the state's DOGE audit

6:02 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A teenager has been sentenced to seven years in a youth rehabilitation facility for shooting Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay

5:22 PM on Wednesday, August 27

An Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith

5:06 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The United Nations agency that coordinates international mail deliveries says it's working to get small parcels dispatched to the United States again by resolving confusion over the pending elimination of a U.S. tariff exemption

5:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Rural hospitals are bracing for financial losses due to President Trump's tax and spending cut bill

4:33 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Indiana's legislative leaders met privately with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss redistricting, according to an Indiana House spokesperson

4:24 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board

3:45 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Cracker Barrel hired a new CEO in 2023 to innovate and appeal to more customers

2:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A South African politician accused by the Trump administration of being at the forefront of an anti-white movement has been found guilty of hate speech for race-fueled comments he made in 2022

1:54 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A truck driver's deadly U-turn on a Florida highway has sparked national debate over immigration, trucking safety, and federal funding

1:22 PM on Wednesday, August 27

10:56 AM on Wednesday, August 27

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing to the Supreme Court again in its bid to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid funding frozen

10:23 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Democrat Catelin Drey has won a special election for an Iowa state Senate seat in a district that previously leaned Republican

9:29 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, say he wants to seek asylum in the United States

9:12 AM on Wednesday, August 27

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of Washington's Union Station from Amtrak, marking another federal intervention in the nation's capital

8:42 AM on Wednesday, August 27

The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has warned that the agency is not yet satisfied with Iran’s cooperation with international inspectors

7:44 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Denmark and Greenland have apologized for their historic roles in the mistreatment of Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women, including forced contraception

7:13 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A South Korean woman adopted to France in 1984 without her parents' consent is seeks compensation from South Korea's government

7:00 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A new poll shows handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump

3:46 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Bolivia’s prominent opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho has won his release to house arrest after two years and eight months of pretrial detention