Politics & Government News

3:50 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Brazil’s government said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in a federal court against Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, seeking damages of 500 million reais (about $97 million) for the company’s alleged failure in protecting children online

3:06 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A federal judge has rejected the Justice Department’s request to dismiss Trump ally Steve Bannon’s criminal conviction for refusing to testify before the congressional committee that investigated a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

3:05 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A former U.S. Marine arrested at President Donald Trump's Los Angeles-area golf course had his criminal charges suspended

3:01 PM on Wednesday, August 26

The Trump administration has trained much of its immigration crackdown on people who entered the United States illegally from Mexico and elsewhere, but it is intensifying another battle, this time with people who come legally

2:51 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A man who is serving time in a federal prison in New York has advanced from the primary for Alaska’s lone House seat

1:01 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Social media users are claiming that Canada could shut off electricity in the U.S. and cause massive blackouts if the trade war between the two countries escalates further

12:49 PM on Wednesday, August 26

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have officially dissolved, with their fighters integrating into Syria's state military

11:45 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Bobby Charles, the Republican nominee for governor in Maine, has told supporters that he plans to ask a top Homeland Security official to send ICE agents and U.S. Marshals to polling places in Maine before the midterm elections

10:37 AM on Wednesday, August 26

President Donald Trump says the United States doesn't need Canada

9:14 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Pennsylvania plans to create a searchable database to monitor affordable housing

8:02 AM on Wednesday, August 26

A federal judge has lifted a major obstacle to President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting mail voting, but Democratic state officials are already filing a new court challenge with the midterm elections fast approaching

7:54 AM on Wednesday, August 26

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit three countries in and around the Caribbean this fall

5:44 AM on Wednesday, August 26

The Kremlin says CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time when relations with Washington remain strained over Russia’s war in Ukraine

3:01 AM on Wednesday, August 26

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, wants to reveal depositions involving his Republican opponent, Ken Paxton

11:15 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is set to make a temporary stop in Thailand on its way home after an grueling deployment in the Middle East

9:06 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. and Canada have ramped up their trade war, hitting each other with steep new tit-for-tat tariffs

7:09 PM on Tuesday, August 25

Three U.S. Secret Service officials have been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation by the agency’s professional standards office

3:55 PM on Tuesday, August 25

As if there was any doubt, Republicans’ midterm convention will be the Donald Trump show, with the president appearing at both nights of the event in Dallas on Sept. 9-10

12:26 PM on Tuesday, August 25

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said a report on the lead-water crisis in the city of Flint is the final step her office can take toward accountability, years after a state Supreme Court ruling shut down criminal cases against a former governor and eight other people

11:50 AM on Tuesday, August 25

President Donald Trump is floating the idea of renaming Lake Ontario to become “Lake America” as his trade war with Canada intensifies