Politics & Government News

6:01 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Trump family's alternative to Facebook and Twitter is shaking up its leadership in hopes of reviving the struggling business

5:37 PM on Wednesday, April 22

An aide to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who was the target of secret surveillance during the FBI’s Russia investigation has reached a settlement for $1.25 million with the federal government

5:35 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had an old friend drop by on the final day of preparations for the NFL draft: former President Bill Clinton

5:26 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Washington cannot dictate the terms of the continental trade deal known as USMCA

5:19 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The billionaire British-Swedish president of skiing’s governing body is standing for re-election as a candidate from the country of Georgia

4:59 PM on Wednesday, April 22

U.S. health officials have stopped the publication of a study on the COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness in preventing hospitalizations

4:54 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is working on a book inspired in part by a massive immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis-St. Paul earlier this year and the local pushback

4:47 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis claims diversity, equity, and inclusion programs discriminate against white men

4:39 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Court rulings are bolstering mandates to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in the U.S. as supporters push to expand the role of religion in classrooms

4:22 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country

4:17 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Peru's defense and foreign ministers have resigned after the country's president stalled a $3.5 billion deal for U.S. F-16 fighter jets

4:15 PM on Wednesday, April 22

4:06 PM on Wednesday, April 22

The Kennedy Center is poised to undergo major renovations, with President Donald Trump calling it “tired, broken, and dilapidated.”

3:13 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Democrats are celebrating an election win in Virginia that could put them slightly ahead in the national redistricting competition that President Donald Trump triggered in an attempt to preserve his party’s House majority in this year’s midterms

2:04 PM on Wednesday, April 22

A Houston city ordinance that limited police officers’ cooperation with federal immigration agents has been amended after Texas’ governor had threatened to take away millions of dollars in public safety grants

1:59 PM on Wednesday, April 22

An appeals court has blocked a California law passed in 2025 requiring federal immigration agents to wear a badge or some form of identification

1:07 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Georgia's Democratic congressman David Scott has died at age 80

1:05 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva is boosting his reelection bid at age 80 by showcasing his fitness

12:42 PM on Wednesday, April 22

Mexican authorities continued to contradict themselves over the role of two CIA agents in a counternarcotics operation in northern Mexico and the extent to which Mexico’s federal government was aware of the U.S. involvement in the incident, which has started to ignite tensions with the White House

12:02 AM on Wednesday, April 22

A Republican senator juggling three roles — lawmaker, doctor and political candidate seeking reelection — has walked a fine line as he questioned Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Sen. Bill Cassidy supported Kennedy's confirmation as health secretary but is a strong vaccine advocate and has clashed with him over vaccine policies