Politics & Government News

2:13 PM on Friday, July 10

Nicaragua's government has stripped many lawyers of their licenses to practice, according to a United Nations expert

2:07 PM on Friday, July 10

A federal appeals court has rejected an effort to defend the Texas Dream Act, leaving a ruling in place that ends a state law allowing some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition

1:27 PM on Friday, July 10

Homeland Security has not fulfilled its promise to equip all officers with body cameras, despite receiving significant funding

1:06 PM on Friday, July 10

The Trump administration has waived a federal law to proceed with a border wall in West Texas

12:24 PM on Friday, July 10

A completed bridge linking Detroit and Canada is expected to open by the end of the month after a dispute delayed its debut

11:38 AM on Friday, July 10

11:38 AM on Friday, July 10

The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a home for years in squalid conditions is straining their rural Ohio county’s resources as it works to prosecute their parents and two grandparents and address the needs of so many children at once

7:42 AM on Friday, July 10

Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley is describing as “asinine” a suggestion that former colonies pay Britain back for its investment in them

7:25 AM on Friday, July 10

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot air-defense systems could mark a major breakthrough for Kyiv

6:47 AM on Friday, July 10

A preliminary hearing in the case of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is done, for now

6:41 AM on Friday, July 10

President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill on Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that does not have enough support to pass

5:54 AM on Friday, July 10

Senior U.S. officials are demanding that Iran’s leadership publicly state that ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has been fully restored

5:46 AM on Friday, July 10

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission charged with assisting state and local elections officials

5:28 AM on Friday, July 10

Western leaders came to Turkey to discuss security in an increasingly perilous world

4:01 AM on Friday, July 10

After Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities his agency would pursue

3:55 AM on Friday, July 10

The U.S. is demanding that Iran make a public statement saying the Strait of Hormuz is open and that ships crossing the vital corridor won’t be attacked anymore

2:01 AM on Friday, July 10

A new AP-NORC poll finds that many Jewish Americans feel unsafe in the United States, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel

9:02 PM on Thursday, July 9

A group of retired federal and state judges has been barnstorming through Ohio and Pennsylvania on the nation's 250th anniversary to defend judicial independence and bolster the rule of law

10:07 AM on Thursday, July 9

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston as he drove his construction crew to a job

9:06 PM on Sunday, June 28

The battle over birthright citizenship hasn't ended for President Donald Trump despite a June 30 Supreme Court ruling that rejected his executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens