Politics & Government News

4:05 PM on Tuesday, June 30

The great-grandson of the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that first established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship praises the latest ruling

3:01 PM on Tuesday, June 30

A pair of federal judges struck down a Trump administration overhaul to a public service forgiveness program for student loans, ruling Tuesday in two separate cases in favor of advocates who said the program risked becoming a tool for political retribution

2:57 PM on Tuesday, June 30

A second New York resident says federal officers have served him with a warning about online activity that criticized U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

2:49 PM on Tuesday, June 30

President Donald Trump has announced that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress

2:06 PM on Tuesday, June 30

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio appear to be staking out differing approaches to carrying out President Donald Trump’s national security agenda

1:56 PM on Tuesday, June 30

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that children born in the U.S. are citizens under the Fourteenth Amendment, even if their parents are in the country unlawfully or temporarily

1:18 PM on Tuesday, June 30

President Donald Trump didn’t get what he wanted in some of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year: tariffs, birthright citizenship and the attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook

1:12 PM on Tuesday, June 30

Hundreds of bus drivers on strike protested in downtown Rio de Janeiro, demanding increased pay, better conditions and an end to the six-day working week

12:41 PM on Tuesday, June 30

Pakistan has warned that any attempt by India to deprive Pakistan of its share of water under the Indus Waters Treaty would amount to the “weaponization of water” and could have serious consequences for regional peace and security

12:03 PM on Tuesday, June 30

Cuba's foreign minister says talks between Cuba and the U.S. are at a standstill despite the island recently approving a series of free-market reforms

11:25 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The newest book on Donald Trump is a big hit

10:54 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Gadi Eisenkot, a former general, has emerged as a significant challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's upcoming election

10:42 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Trump administration has frozen federal funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

10:36 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed an Israeli proposal to recognize the violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide

10:26 AM on Tuesday, June 30

7:27 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Supreme Court has erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that's more than 50 years old

6:19 AM on Tuesday, June 30

It’s been 123 days since the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran war, and the world again awaits another round of some sort of talks as President Donald Trump and Iranian officials disagree over what and even how they’ll communicate

5:08 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

2:50 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Animal welfare activists in Montenegro are alarmed by the issue of abandoned animals amid a heat wave in the Balkans

9:09 PM on Monday, June 29

New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has revealed the reason for his four-month absence from the U.S. House