Politics & Government News

3:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

California lawmakers are demanding answers after a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last weekend led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5, striking two California Highway Patrol vehicles

3:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading up to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

3:46 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has approved major disaster declarations for Alaska, Nebraska, North Dakota and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

3:36 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

3:33 PM on Thursday, October 23

A Florida family is urging U.S. leaders to help free a 16-year-old Palestinian-American held in an Israeli prison for eight months

3:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

Some public figures carry threats to their livelihood in the palms of their hands

3:28 PM on Thursday, October 23

Candidates in Ivory Coast's presidential election have wrapped up their final rallies as the campaign concludes

2:55 PM on Thursday, October 23

The New Orleans City Council held an emergency budget hearing to discuss a cash flow problem that may mean it doesn't have enough money to pay its bills for the rest of the year

2:50 PM on Thursday, October 23

The state of Michigan is suspending incentives and seeking to claw back millions from a Chinese business behind an electric vehicle battery plant project in northern Michigan after the project has been riddled with pushback from locals and national Republicans

2:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

A federal food aid program that helps about one in eight Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown

2:34 PM on Thursday, October 23

As federal agents ramp up an immigration crackdown in the Chicago area, an increasing number of elected officials in the Democratic stronghold are getting caught in the crosshairs

2:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayor’s race next month, he would become the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in a century

2:06 PM on Thursday, October 23

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace on Thursday evening

12:43 PM on Thursday, October 23

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine

12:15 PM on Thursday, October 23

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s mayoral race

11:19 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located

9:37 AM on Thursday, October 23

Four family members of a Republican running for governor in Illinois have died in a helicopter crash in Montana

8:27 AM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time after failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism

12:04 PM on Wednesday, October 22

National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes

10:01 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, tells The Associated Press that he's covered a tattoo on his chest to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol that he got nearly 20 years ago