Politics & Government News

5:00 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The Trump administration's new “economic onslaught” on Iran's financial connections around the world faces a challenge when it comes to China

4:09 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The San Diego Padres says a coaching coordinator in their minor league system is back with his family after being detained by federal immigration officers in Texas

2:32 PM on Tuesday, August 25

A federal judge has blocked enforcement of an Ohio law requiring eligible residents to produce documentary proof of citizenship when attempting to register to vote at a motor vehicle bureau

2:19 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The Department of Justice argues that if President Donald Trump's name isn't on the Kennedy Center, donor money for renovations will dry up, leading to its closure

1:12 PM on Tuesday, August 25

12:50 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The father of a U.S. Navy sailor who has been deployed in the Middle East for nine months has been released from immigration detention

12:50 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. government issued a travel alert for Americans planning to visit Mexicali in northern Mexico and temporarily suspended consular activities in the border city due to a “potential threat,” without providing details

11:29 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Elon Musk’s space company plans to spend $100 billion to build a new spaceport in Louisiana to launch rockets

11:21 AM on Tuesday, August 25

The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has announced the group's official dissolution

10:21 AM on Tuesday, August 25

A Wisconsin prosecutor says he will not file election bribery charges against billionaire Elon Musk even though the state’s bipartisan elections commission said he likely broke state law

9:49 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Families who lost loved ones when a suitcase bomb detonated aboard Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 had been preparing to attend the terrorism trial of the accused bombmaker

9:27 AM on Tuesday, August 25

A legal watchdog says it has filed bar complaints accusing U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and two lieutenants of violating their ethical duties in seeking to charge six Democratic lawmakers with federal crimes for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders

9:14 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Canada has pledged to roll out “dollar for dollar” counter-tariffs on scores of U.S. goods next month, in response to President Donald Trump’s latest import taxes that have plunged the North American neighbors deeper into a bitter trade war

8:58 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July

8:09 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Pennsylvania health officials report that two unvaccinated residents have died after being infected with measles

7:07 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh held a rally Tuesday to demand safe return to Myanmar

6:01 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Canada has announced retaliatory tariffs against the United States as relations between the two nations sharply deteriorate

4:57 AM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. Secret Service has confirmed it is aware that Iranian state media has aired a video that appears to threaten the life of Barron Trump, President Donald Trump’s youngest son

4:20 AM on Tuesday, August 25

Canada struck back at the United States with retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion worth of American goods

9:12 PM on Monday, August 24

The Supreme Court's decision clearing one obstacle to the enactment of President Donald Trump's order on mail voting may not mean the order ultimately takes effect for November's elections