Politics & Government News

12:57 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Japan and the Organization of American States have signed a deal to award Haiti a $3 million grant to help it register voters as the troubled country prepares to hold general elections for the first time in more than a decade

12:05 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A Democratic congresswoman says the person Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents targeted in Maine last month when an officer shot and killed a motorist was not subject to a final removal order

12:05 PM on Tuesday, August 18

12:00 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A human rights group says that forced labor persists on massive sugarcane plantations across the Dominican Republic

10:15 AM on Tuesday, August 18

10:10 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The Justice Department is pushing to revive criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

10:02 AM on Tuesday, August 18

A historic preservation group that sued to block construction of President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to suspend the project while it considers whether the work can continue

9:55 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Democratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to confirm that he won’t send troops to polling places during the midterm elections

9:31 AM on Tuesday, August 18

An appeals court has ruled that continued leadership of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nevada by the Trump administration’s pick violates federal law

9:08 AM on Tuesday, August 18

8:40 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Fierce fighting between government troops and militias in Somalia's southwestern city of Baidoa has killed dozens, including at least four civilians

8:37 AM on Tuesday, August 18

A federal judge has allowed paint tests on a historic building next to the White House to move ahead, granting President Donald Trump a win in his plan to add new coat of white paint to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building

8:32 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Inspectors with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog have begun excavating a site linked to a clandestine nuclear program run by Syria's former government

7:52 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The Department of Defense has ordered 30 U.S. universities to audit their partnerships with mostly Chinese universities and military training institutions as President Donald Trump's administration scrutinizes the country’s growing global influence

7:22 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The United States and South Korea have regularly conducted military drills to prepare for potential conflicts with North Korea

6:58 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The leader of Quebec's separatist party says he would delay any independence referendum until Donald Trump is no longer U.S. president

4:46 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Disney has filed sui against the Federal Communications Commission says every media outlet in the nation is at risk due to the Trump administration's retaliation over Jimmy Kimmel's satire

3:34 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has several programs funded by Congress that lack staff to operate them

2:27 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The United Nations says that an explosion near a school complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul has wounded at least 42 children

4:40 PM on Monday, August 17

A U.S. judge has blocked plans to move the FBI's headquarters to a federal office building in Washington