Politics & Government News

4:46 PM on Friday, June 26

A gay rights activist is suing the Defense Department to answer a simple question: Did Scouting America actually ban transgender members in a deal with the Pentagon

2:44 PM on Friday, June 26

A poll worker says two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s party primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

2:42 PM on Friday, June 26

New Mexico's attorney general has opened a criminal investigation into claims that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets

12:54 PM on Friday, June 26

Tanzania’s government has banned political rallies ahead of planned protests against last year's disputed election and the detention of an opposition leader

12:47 PM on Friday, June 26

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was the target of an anonymous report that police determined was false

12:11 PM on Friday, June 26

A lawsuit says family planning and health organizations in Pennsylvania could face federal funding delays or denials due to a new Trump administration policy

12:02 PM on Friday, June 26

A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them

11:10 AM on Friday, June 26

Fear is ricocheting through Haitian communities across the United States after the Supreme Court decided to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters

11:00 AM on Friday, June 26

Massachusetts voters are likely to see eight initiative petitions on the November ballot

10:08 AM on Friday, June 26

OpenAI has restricted the release of its new AI model at the request of President Donald Trump's administration

9:39 AM on Friday, June 26

President Donald Trump is threatening a 100% tariff on imports from any country that imposes a tax on digital services provided by United States companies

9:32 AM on Friday, June 26

The Utah judge in the murder case over conservative activist's Charlie Kirk’s killing has held prosecutors in contempt of court over comments they made about defendant Tyler Robinson

8:22 AM on Friday, June 26

Tensions are evident in a rare display among the Supreme Court justices at the end of the term

7:29 AM on Friday, June 26

Former national security adviser John Bolton is pleading guilty to illegally retaining classified information

6:30 AM on Friday, June 26

Sergei Ivanov, a former Russian defense minister once seen as a possible successor to President Vladimir Putin, has died

6:01 AM on Friday, June 26

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a national “billionaires' tax” and suggests the U.S. government should own a stake in AI companies

5:13 AM on Friday, June 26

The United States has struck Iran in response to a drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz

5:04 AM on Friday, June 26

The House Oversight Committee has served subpoenas to a billionaire investor who made payments to Jeffrey Epstein

3:22 AM on Friday, June 26

America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, and the nation's capital is undergoing significant changes under President Donald Trump

9:29 PM on Thursday, June 25

Venezuelans took the search for missing loved ones into their own hands in the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes