Politics & Government News

5:17 PM on Monday, October 20

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can take command of 200 Oregon National Guard troops, but he's still barred from actually deploying those troops — at least for now

5:16 PM on Monday, October 20

A Minnesota woman convicted of filling out and submitting a mail-in ballot for her deceased mother was ordered by a judge to write an essay and read a book about voting’s importance to democracy

4:51 PM on Monday, October 20

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are urging a judge to dismiss the case against him

4:37 PM on Monday, October 20

The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building

3:51 PM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump has expressed confidence in reaching a "fantastic deal" with Chinese President Xi Jinping

3:42 PM on Monday, October 20

An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts can’t participate

3:14 PM on Monday, October 20

Georgia Democrats are focusing on rising electricity bills in the statewide election of two utility regulators

3:10 PM on Monday, October 20

A Nevada nonprofit that worked to send free books to children in Clark County didn't have its funding renewed by the state

2:50 PM on Monday, October 20

The chair of the Democratic Party says online comments made by a Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, dismiss rape in the military and criticize both police officers and rural America were wrong, but not disqualifying from office

2:22 PM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump has encouraged a retired Navy SEAL to challenge Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in next year’s Kentucky primary

1:17 PM on Monday, October 20

Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown

12:40 PM on Monday, October 20

Furloughs have begun at the federal agency tasked with overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile

11:55 AM on Monday, October 20

Officials say many federal officers involved in immigration enforcement in Chicago have body cameras, but expanding their use requires more funding from Congress

10:38 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House

9:24 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical minerals deal

8:21 AM on Monday, October 20

The United Nations says Houthi rebels have released five Yemeni U.N. staff members and allowed 15 international ones to move freely within the U.N. compound after detaining them over the weekend

5:20 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump says it's possible that Ukraine can defeat Russia, but he’s doubtful that it will happen

3:17 AM on Monday, October 20

Bolivia’s first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, has injected a sharp note of realism into his plan for solving Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in four decades

12:03 AM on Monday, October 20

Federal appeals court judges questioned the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor

2:02 PM on Sunday, October 19

In a story published Oct. 19, 2025, about President Donald Trump commuting the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Santos was the sixth person expelled from Congress