Politics & Government News

3:45 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced the nomination of Jay Clayton, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the nation’s intelligence agencies

3:24 PM on Tuesday, July 21

House Republicans will aim to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall’s midterm elections with a vote to fund the federal government through Dec. 4

3:09 PM on Tuesday, July 21

President Donald Trump has reached back to the Great Depression for an obscure trade weapon he can use to wallop Canada again

2:59 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Trump administration says it's deferring over $1 billion in Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California because of suspected fraud and noncompliance

2:15 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace

2:08 PM on Tuesday, July 21

Moldova's pro-Western parliament has elected investor Vasile Tofan as prime minister

2:07 PM on Tuesday, July 21

2:00 PM on Tuesday, July 21

French lawmakers have approved a bill banning children under 15 from using social media

1:55 PM on Tuesday, July 21

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing questions and protests at a Senate hearing over the U.S. war against Iran

1:54 PM on Tuesday, July 21

New Jersey's governor says about 6,600 people who indicated they were noncitizens were nonetheless registered to vote in the state because of a Motor Vehicle Commission system error

1:43 PM on Tuesday, July 21

A federal appeals court has upheld White House adviser Peter Navarro’s convictions for defying a subpoena for records from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

1:41 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya

1:29 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace

11:46 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms

11:14 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is pushing back against a White House report labeling the institution's leadership as radical activists

11:02 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Guyana's prime minister says a ferry that capsized over the weekend had as many as 179 people aboard, far more than listed on its manifest

9:21 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The U.S. and Iran are back to bombing every day in a bid to control the Strait of Hormuz

4:48 AM on Tuesday, July 21

New U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has gathered his Cabinet after removing allies of predecessor Keir Starmer from the government

12:59 AM on Tuesday, July 21

President Donald Trump says he’ll allow American carriers to resume direct flights to Lebanon more than 40 years after the US suspended the route

12:04 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Arizona Republicans are choosing nominees to challenge Democrats in key state offices