Politics & Government News

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CoreCivic says it has finalized a five-year federal contract to reopen a private prison in Appleton, Minnesota, as a detention center for undocumented immigrants

9:40 AM on Wednesday, August 5

The junior partner of Spain’s government wants Spain to reconsider hosting the next World Cup with Morocco after the migration crisis in Ceuta

7:43 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Tennessee’s senior U.S. senator eyes a job change in a state primary on Thursday

7:23 AM on Wednesday, August 5

House Democrats are adding a dozen Republican-held seats to their list of targets for the November midterms

7:11 AM on Wednesday, August 5

The immediate family members of U.S. troops have generally not been targets of immigration enforcement

6:38 AM on Wednesday, August 5

Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment before Congress will be put to the test this week

2:46 AM on Wednesday, August 5

A provincial government in Nepal has legalized farming and use of marijuana for medical purposes

9:04 PM on Tuesday, August 4

A 73-year-old retired nurse spoke her native Tibetan all her life but never learned to write it — until now

8:49 PM on Tuesday, August 4

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Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed

7:11 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Authorities say they have arrested a man who was walking the grounds and appeared to be monitoring security planning at President Donald Trump’s California golf course ahead of the president’s visit

6:24 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Capybaras have been making surprise visits to a Brazilian state legislature

2:04 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Princess Eugenie has given birth to her third child and first daughter

1:09 PM on Tuesday, August 4

The House Ethics Committee says it has opened an investigation into domestic abuse allegations made against Republican Rep. Max Miller

12:16 PM on Tuesday, August 4

Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces, according to the U.N. World Food Program

12:03 PM on Tuesday, August 4

The Democratic Senate race between Rep. Haley Stevens and former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is one of the clearest tests yet of the party’s future

12:03 AM on Tuesday, August 4

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed are in a close race for the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 4

U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell has won a rematch in a Missouri Democratic primary against former Rep. Cori Bush, an outspoken activist who had been part of a progressive group of House members known as the Squad

12:01 AM on Tuesday, August 4

Virginia Democrats picked establishment candidates to take on Republican incumbents in two congressional districts the party hopes to flip in November