Politics & Government News

9:01 PM on Wednesday, July 8

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens is closing Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary by arguing she is the party’s strongest candidate to beat Republicans

5:23 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after a woman who dated him said he drunkenly forced her to have sex despite her telling him to stop

3:32 PM on Wednesday, July 8

As Democrats scramble to contain a political disaster in Maine, the Republicans on the front lines of the GOP’s fight to hold the U.S. Senate majority are breathing a sigh of relief

2:46 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Canada's prime minister is visiting Saudi Arabia, marking the first trip by a Canadian leader to the kingdom in 26 years

2:41 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Actor Patrick Dempsey says he will not run for a Maine Senate seat, ending speculation about his potential candidacy

2:33 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The second fatal shooting in four days by a federal crime-fighting task force in Memphis is under investigation

1:17 PM on Wednesday, July 8

President Donald Trump has flown partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of making the full trip aboard the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted jet he arrived in

11:14 AM on Wednesday, July 8

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the message from a summit in Ankara, Turkey, is that “NATO delivers.”

10:46 AM on Wednesday, July 8

The Trumps administration has been ramping up pressure on state election officials to make sure noncitizens aren't registered to vote

10:23 AM on Wednesday, July 8

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed

9:53 AM on Wednesday, July 8

A three-judge panel has denied a request from the Kennedy Center's board to restore President Donald Trump's name to the institution while they appeal an earlier ruling that dubbed the name change illegal

8:55 AM on Wednesday, July 8

Kentucky's governor has written an open letter to Mitch McConnell asking the Republican senator to disclose more about his condition

8:07 AM on Wednesday, July 8

Rahm Emanuel, a potential Democratic presidential candidate, warns that Israel is becoming isolated due to its leadership

6:37 AM on Wednesday, July 8

A weeklong preliminary hearing for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk has paused for the day and will resume Thursday

10:56 PM on Tuesday, July 7

The U.S. has carried out another round of strikes on Iran hours after President Donald Trump said that recent Iranian attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of the ceasefire

9:01 PM on Tuesday, July 7

Prosecutors in Utah played a video clip that provided a rare glimpse of Tyler Robinson after the defendant in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk first turned himself in

9:01 PM on Tuesday, July 7

Graham Platner's bid for Maine Senate may be all but over, but it's likely other candidates will find themselves on a similar path in the future

9:01 PM on Tuesday, July 7

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan has been spared from prison for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited in the hallway

7:56 PM on Tuesday, July 7

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced at a NATO summit in Turkey that the U.S. will allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defense systems

11:19 AM on Tuesday, July 7