Politics & Government News

5:43 PM on Thursday, May 28

A federal judge has ruled Alabama's use of nitrogen gas to carry out executions does not violate the U.S. Constitution

3:35 PM on Thursday, May 28

A court investigation found that a federal judge had an affair with a police officer, including having sex in chambers overheard by staff, but remains on the bench with a “private reprimand.”

3:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

The U.S. State Department says it will designate Brazil’s two biggest criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations early next month, a move that the South American nation’s government has repeatedly said it will interpret as undue interference in its politics

2:55 PM on Thursday, May 28

Nearly 3 million Cubans are experiencing water shortages every day because of a severe oil shortage that government officials blame on a U.S. energy blockade

2:51 PM on Thursday, May 28

ABC-owned TV stations across the U.S. are criticizing the Federal Communications Commission for an early review of their broadcast licenses

2:36 PM on Thursday, May 28

The former advice columnist E

2:12 PM on Thursday, May 28

In her new memoir, Jill Biden reflects on Joe Biden's poor 2024 presidential debate performance against Donald Trump

12:11 PM on Thursday, May 28

Protesters have clashed with armed federal immigration officers in front of a New Jersey detention center where advocates have asserted detainees are staging a hunger strike

12:06 PM on Thursday, May 28

Ohio is suspending a tax break that has been critical to its competition with other states to attract the massive new facilities that power and train artificial intelligence chatbots

10:20 AM on Thursday, May 28

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is calling for a new partnership with the United States

9:39 AM on Thursday, May 28

Martina McBride, Morris Day, the Commodores and Young MC have all announced they will not perform at “The Great American State Fair” on Washington's National Mall

9:00 AM on Thursday, May 28

Other southern states are advocating for South Carolina to remain the first to vote in the Democratic presidential primaries

8:50 AM on Thursday, May 28

Republican lawmakers in Louisiana are poised to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling

7:25 AM on Thursday, May 28

Democrat Gretchen Whitmer has backtracked on an earlier comment about running for president in 2028, saying she has “nothing to announce.”

6:07 AM on Thursday, May 28

Aid supplies have been rushed in to the center of Congo's Ebola outbreak where medical workers are struggling with equipment shortages, distrustful locals and armed groups

6:02 AM on Thursday, May 28

The top federal prosecutor in Chicago denies that his office has opened an investigation into E

5:12 AM on Thursday, May 28

U.S. and Iranian negotiators have reached a tentative agreement to extend the ceasefire by 60 days and start talks on Iran’s nuclear program

10:10 PM on Wednesday, May 27

French lawmakers have voted to repeal a 17th-century law that governed enslaved people in France's colonies

9:12 PM on Wednesday, May 27

Colombia is set to elect a new president and vice president in a vote Sunday seen as a referendum on President Gustavo Petro’s policies

2:10 PM on Tuesday, May 26

The Scripps National Spelling Bee has moved from suburban Maryland to downtown Washington, and not all spellers and their families appreciate the change