Politics & Government News

4:43 PM on Thursday, January 8

Trump says he wants government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds in a push to bring down mortgage rates

4:42 PM on Thursday, January 8

Austin Peay State University has reinstated a professor who was fired for his social media post after the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

4:38 PM on Thursday, January 8

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo announces he's leading a petition to amend the state's Constitution to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ and women’s sports

4:32 PM on Thursday, January 8

Connecticut officials are considering extending open enrollment for 2026 Affordable Care Act plans

4:23 PM on Thursday, January 8

Environmental groups claim federal and state officials withheld evidence about funding for an immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades

4:09 PM on Thursday, January 8

The House has passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills that would fund parts of the federal government through September

3:47 PM on Thursday, January 8

Former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords returned to the House floor on the 15th anniversary of the assassination attempt that ended her political career

3:43 PM on Thursday, January 8

Trump advisers met at the White House with Denmark, Greenland envoys as Trump reignites 'takeover' talk, AP sources say

3:35 PM on Thursday, January 8

Russia has strongly condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker

3:24 PM on Thursday, January 8

House refuses to override Trump vetoes of 2 bipartisan bills as Republicans stick with president

2:59 PM on Thursday, January 8

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes reducing the responsibilities of California’s elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction

2:10 PM on Thursday, January 8

A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start

12:34 PM on Thursday, January 8

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva has vetoed a bill that could reduce Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence for his failed 2023 coup attempt

11:26 AM on Thursday, January 8

The IRS will start accepting 2025 tax returns on Jan. 26, marking the official start of the 2026 tax filing season

10:30 AM on Thursday, January 8

Somalia’s government is denying an allegation by the U.S. government that authorities in Mogadishu destroyed an American-funded warehouse belonging to the World Food Program

7:16 AM on Thursday, January 8

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a “takeover” of the strategic Arctic island

7:01 AM on Thursday, January 8

Fulton County Commissioner Dana Barrett has announced her candidacy to become Georgia's secretary of state

12:50 AM on Thursday, January 8

The longest-serving Democrat in Congress has announced he's retiring at the end of his term, saying he's deeply concerned "this House is not living up to the Founders’ goals.”

12:03 AM on Thursday, January 8

The House refused Thursday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of two low-profile bills as Republicans stuck with the president despite their prior support for the measures

3:33 PM on Wednesday, January 7