Politics & Government News

7:24 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A federal appeals court rules that Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, allowing posters of the religious doctrine to go up throughout the state

7:05 PM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump repeated his call for Congress to pass legislation that would rein in college sports at a time athletes are allowed to move freely from school to school and command salaries that put athletic departments in financial peril

6:41 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Hundreds of migrants, most of them from Haiti, left the southern Mexican city of Tapachula on foot in an effort to seek better living conditions elsewhere in Mexico

6:34 PM on Tuesday, April 21

An appeals court has decided that an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” will remain open

6:26 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The Navy is reviewing the design and costs of its Ford-class aircraft carrier, one of its most high-tech and expensive warships

5:38 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The head of Peru’s national election agency has resigned over logistical problems that affected the nation’s bitterly disputed presidential election, a contest for which officials still have not named the winners

4:55 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Ohio State University says its recently resigned president violated school policy by attempting to help a woman with whom he had a close personal relationship get a job at the school, help with her podcast and other access to school resources

4:34 PM on Tuesday, April 21

New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini over unregulated and unlicensed prediction market platforms that the state contends are illegal gambling operations

4:07 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas issued in the investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan, with officials asking for voluntary interviews instead of testimony before a grand jury

4:05 PM on Tuesday, April 21

A new AP-NORC poll finds that President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the economy has slumped over the past month as the Iran war drives prices higher

3:01 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Florida's attorney general has opened an investigation into OpenAI's ChatGPT

2:06 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The Senate voted on Tuesday to launch a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the longest partial government shutdown in history

12:44 PM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump read a notable Bible passage in a livestreamed marathon

11:43 AM on Tuesday, April 21

The gunman who opened fire on tourists at Mexico’s iconic Teotihuacan pyramids carried materials that were apparently related to the deadly 1999 shooting at Columbine High School

9:31 AM on Tuesday, April 21

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly raised millions of dollars to secretly pay leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups for inside information

8:24 AM on Tuesday, April 21

U.S. forces have boarded an oil tanker previously sanctioned for smuggling Iranian crude oil in Asia

7:36 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has resigned, doing so just moments before the start of a hearing that could have led to a recommendation that she be expelled from Congress

6:54 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump and many of his conservative Christian supporters are participating in a marathon Bible reading event

4:11 AM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump says the United States is indefinitely extending its ceasefire with Iran at Pakistan’s request as he waits for a unified proposal from the Islamic Republic

12:03 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Virginia voters are deciding on a mid-decade redistricting plan that could help Democrats gain four more U.S. House seats