Politics & Government News

8:40 AM on Saturday, August 22

Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker of Kansas has died

8:19 AM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump has urged a federal judge to reject the BBC’s request for the court’s help in securing testimony and documents from three members of the president’s family in response to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster

8:05 AM on Saturday, August 22

A federal judge in New York vacated a Trump administration policy that had suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration has deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States

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

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