Politics & Government News

3:08 PM on Monday, October 6

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison

3:01 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump's plan to deploy the military on U.S. soil is sparking conflict with blue state governors that is playing out in the courts

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

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

11:11 AM on Monday, October 6

Illinois and Chicago have filed a lawsuit aiming to stop President Donald Trump's administration from sending hundreds of National Guard troops to Chicago

10:38 AM on Monday, October 6

Frank Bisignano has been named CEO of the IRS, adding to his role as Social Security Administration Commissioner

9:47 AM on Monday, October 6

Israeli authorities say they have deported another 171 activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, including Greta Thunberg

8:34 AM on Monday, October 6

It’s now Day 6 of the shutdown, and the Democratic minority leader has challenged the Republican House speaker to a televised debate on the impasse over reopening the federal government

8:11 AM on Monday, October 6

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

7:12 AM on Monday, October 6

Lawmakers are showing few signs of meaningful negotiations to break an impasse on reopening the federal government as the shutdown drags through its sixth day

6:34 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court has opened its new term

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

5:10 AM on Monday, October 6

Israeli and Hamas officials are holding indirect talks in an Egyptian resort on a U.S. peace plan for Gaza

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

1:07 AM on Monday, October 6

Khaled el-Anani, a former Egyptian tourism and antiquities minister, has been nominated by UNESCO's executive board to become its first director from the Arab world

8:35 PM on Saturday, October 4

12:54 PM on Saturday, October 4

Israel and Hamas are set to begin indirect talks on ending the war in Gaza after both sides signaled support for U.S. President Donald Trump’s peace plan

4:50 PM on Monday, September 29

Illinois has followed California and Oregon in filing lawsuits to stop President Donald Trump from sending in hundreds of National Guard troops to Democrat-led big cities