Politics & Government News

5:02 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A former senior adviser to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has pleaded guilty to plotting to conceal federal records related to research on the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic

2:55 PM on Tuesday, August 18

A Southern California county will stop letting federal immigration authorities train at a local firing range over concerns about the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants

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

12:19 PM on Tuesday, August 18

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, according to authorities in the West African country

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

11:56 AM on Tuesday, August 18

U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman says it’s a “head scratcher” that President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina’s Republican Senate runoff

11:49 AM on Tuesday, August 18

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nationwide

10:26 AM on Tuesday, August 18

More governors are shifting their stances or taking more steps to squeeze data centers, as the midterm elections near and public opinion sours on the energy-hungry behemoths

10:15 AM on Tuesday, August 18

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

9:30 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Minnesota's attorney general is suing the governor of Texas, asking a federal judge to compel the extradition of a federal immigration agent charged with wounding a man and then lying about it during an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis

9:07 AM on Tuesday, August 18

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has suspended state work on proposed mining projects near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

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

7:30 AM on Tuesday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Oman because he is unhappy the country is close to a deal with Iran to manage ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz

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

6:00 AM on Tuesday, August 18

A whistleblower is alleging that a Trump administration task force created to combat antisemitism pushed for settlements with Ivy League universities

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

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