Politics & Government News

7:32 AM on Saturday, August 22

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been increasingly seen secluding herself at home

5:27 AM on Saturday, August 22

Just eight of 435 congressional districts backed a Republican in their House race and Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election

5:06 AM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump has transformed the White House Rose Garden by adding statues of America’s founders

3:17 PM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said

2:40 PM on Friday, August 21

The Trump administration has notified Congress of its plans to pay more than $800 million of the several billion it owes to the United Nations

2:31 PM on Friday, August 21

Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu has ordered an investigation into a man accused of creating a fake government agency

2:31 PM on Friday, August 21

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has had a bad week

1:52 PM on Friday, August 21

The 250th anniversary of U.S. independence was just months away when National Park Service employees received a directive from Washington

1:44 PM on Friday, August 21

Even for well-traveled IndyCar drivers, a track with the U.S. Capitol in the background is a little awe inspiring

1:33 PM on Friday, August 21

Ed Martin, a loyal White House ally who held multiple Justice Department posts despite unconventional tactics that sometimes rankled his superiors, is leaving President Donald Trump’s administration

1:19 PM on Friday, August 21

In his most recent challenge to the results of the 2020 U.S. election, President Donald Trump this week cited a report claiming to show that thousands of noncitizens voted, a practice studies have found to be extremely rare

12:47 PM on Friday, August 21

Eighteen migrants have been laid to rest in Ceuta’s Muslim cemetery following Spain’s deadliest border crisis three weeks ago

12:12 PM on Friday, August 21

The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter

12:02 PM on Friday, August 21

State prosecutors declined to file criminal charges against Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs over allegations that she took part in a pay-to-play scheme with a group home company

11:10 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump has expressed his gratitude to the Supreme Court for allowing the White House to continue construction for now on his $400 million White House ballroom project

9:20 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump has announced his administration will temporarily allow more beef imports into the U.S. without triggering higher tariffs

6:29 AM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump is in South Carolina making a last-minute appeal for Sen. Darline Graham

9:02 PM on Thursday, August 20

President Donald Trump says the first step toward keeping Darline Graham as a U.S. senator from South Carolina involves helping her win a Republican runoff next week

9:01 PM on Thursday, August 20

Vice President JD Vance has returned to his hometown to campaign for Republican candidates at a steel plant where his grandfather worked

3:08 PM on Thursday, August 20