Politics & Government News

5:05 PM on Friday, March 27

Idaho lawmakers passed a sweeping bathroom bill Friday that makes it a crime for transgender people to use bathrooms matching their gender identity

3:39 PM on Friday, March 27

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's assertion that the U.S. wants Ukraine to hand over territory to Russia to receive American security guarantees in any ceasefire plan

3:23 PM on Friday, March 27

As gas prices approach $4 a gallon nationally amid the conflict in Iran, some lawmakers are pushing to suspend the federal gasoline tax

3:01 PM on Friday, March 27

California lawmakers have voted to audit the state’s joint intelligence “fusion centers” after claims of illegal data sharing and invasive surveillance

2:40 PM on Friday, March 27

A Missouri judge has allowed the use of new U.S. House districts backed by President Donald Trump

2:33 PM on Friday, March 27

2:03 PM on Friday, March 27

Long-serving Missouri Republican Rep. Sam Graves has decided not to run for reelection

1:52 PM on Friday, March 27

The California attorney general and a voting right groups have launched two legal challenges to halt a ballot seizure by a Republican sheriff in Riverside County

12:54 PM on Friday, March 27

A new Texas report says child care scholarships have very low improper payments

12:43 PM on Friday, March 27

A judge has ruled that the government can convene a meeting next week to seek an exemption from the Endangered Species Act on the basis of national security for expanded oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

11:31 AM on Friday, March 27

Mongolia’s Prime Minister Zandanshatar Gombojav resigned Friday after rising tensions within the ruling party and a parliamentary boycott by the opposition

9:46 AM on Friday, March 27

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida is maintaining her innocence following the House Ethics Committee’s finding that the Democratic congresswoman committed numerous violations of House rules and ethics standards

9:37 AM on Friday, March 27

Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from a hospital in the capital and will continue serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt at his residence in an upscale gated community

8:27 AM on Friday, March 27

8:06 AM on Friday, March 27

Another teen is running for governor of Vermont, and this time, he'll be on the general election ballot

7:15 AM on Friday, March 27

A year after federal employees were hit by the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts through the Department of Government Efficiency, it remains unclear what the agency saved

6:48 AM on Friday, March 27

Austria’s governing coalition has announced plans to ban social media use for children under 14

12:18 AM on Friday, March 27

Minnesota will be the flagship of the “No Kings” protest movement Saturday when Bruce Springsteen performs “Streets of Minneapolis” in a state where emotions are still raw over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two residents who were shot by federal officers

4:14 PM on Thursday, March 26

Posts circulating on social media claim driver’s licenses could not be used for voter registration in federal elections under the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering

2:05 PM on Thursday, March 26

Costa Rica said that it would accept 25 “third party” migrants deported from the United States per week