Politics & Government News

8:00 PM on Wednesday, December 17

A U.S. senator says she's pausing the nomination for the top Coast Guard job because leaders appeared to have “backtracked” on a commitment to ensure that swastikas and nooses are considered hate symbols and prohibited from being displayed

6:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17

US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington

6:55 PM on Wednesday, December 17

A federal appeals court has blocked Michigan’s ban on conversion therapy for minors who are LGBTQ+, declaring it violates the First Amendment rights of therapists and counselors

5:52 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Africa has been the hardest hit by the Trump administration's expanded travel ban that includes 20 more countries

5:50 PM on Wednesday, December 17

5:05 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Minneapolis' police chief is criticizing federal immigration agents after a confrontation with protesters on Monday

5:02 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Imprisoned former Jeffrey Epstein girlfriend and longtime associate Ghislaine Maxwell is asking a federal judge to set aside her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying “substantial new evidence” has emerged to prove constitutional violations spoiled her trial

4:59 PM on Wednesday, December 17

A federal judge in the nation’s capital has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing policies limiting Congress members’ access to immigration detention facilities

4:28 PM on Wednesday, December 17

Some oil vessels are diverting away from Venezuela after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened a “blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving the South American country

3:18 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Inspector General will investigate the Trump administration’s termination of $7.6 billion in grants for clean energy projects across several states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in last year’s presidential election

3:01 PM on Wednesday, December 17

A Republican push to make drilling cheaper on federal land is creating new fiscal pressure for states that depend on oil and gas revenue, most notably in New Mexico

2:53 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people

2:33 PM on Wednesday, December 17

President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame

1:32 PM on Wednesday, December 17

U.S. President Donald Trump's announced blockade on sanctioned Venezuelan oil could lead to shortages of food, fuel, and other basic goods in the Latin American nation

12:47 PM on Wednesday, December 17

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has achieved federal recognition as a tribal nation by attaching it to a defense bill passed by Congress

11:45 AM on Wednesday, December 17

A Wisconsin woman who almost killed her sixth-grade classmate to please horror villain Slender Man and then fled a group home won't fight the state's attempt to revoke her release privileges

10:44 AM on Wednesday, December 17

New York is set to become the latest state to legalize medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill

10:34 AM on Wednesday, December 17

Four centrist Republicans have broken with their party's leadership over health care

10:32 AM on Wednesday, December 17

The Senate has given final passage to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs

12:07 AM on Wednesday, December 17

President Donald Trump has paid his respects to two Iowa National Guard members and a U.S. civilian who were killed in an attack in Syria last weekend