Politics & Government News

8:45 PM on Friday, February 27

Anthropic says it will challenge Pentagon in court over 'supply chain risk' label on its AI technology

8:21 PM on Friday, February 27

Federal immigration agents arrested a Columbia student after allegedly gaining access to her apartment by posing as police in search of a missing child

7:37 PM on Friday, February 27

Guinea releases 16 Sierra Leone soldiers and police after a tense arrest tied to a long-running border dispute

7:12 PM on Friday, February 27

The Treasury Department says it has ended its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service

6:48 PM on Friday, February 27

At least two retail customers have filed proposed class-action lawsuits against companies that have sued in trade court to ensure they receive refunds from tariffs now-deemed illegal

6:30 PM on Friday, February 27

The head of Haiti’s National Police tells The Associated Press that authorities are still working on a plan to safely hold general elections this year as promised by the government despite persistent gang violence

6:02 PM on Friday, February 27

A judge has sentenced a Wisconsin man who forged threats against President Donald Trump as part of a deportation scheme to 16½ years in prison

5:52 PM on Friday, February 27

Bill Clinton deposition concludes after more than 6 hours after lawmakers say he answered every question about Epstein

5:42 PM on Friday, February 27

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has endorsed Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett in Texas’ Democratic Senate primary, giving Crockett a big boost as she faces concerns about electability

5:25 PM on Friday, February 27

Hegseth labels Anthropic a supply chain risk after AI dispute, preventing US military vendors from working with company

4:58 PM on Friday, February 27

The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities starting next school year amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called “factories of anti-American resentment.”

3:30 PM on Friday, February 27

Two transgender men are suing Kansas over a new law that invalidated their driver’s licenses and about 1,700 others for reflecting people's gender identities and not their sex assigned at birth

3:15 PM on Friday, February 27

The court-ordered deadline for the U.S. government to facilitate the return of a Babson College student mistakenly deported to Honduras was set to expire as her attorney accused immigration officials of stalling

2:55 PM on Friday, February 27

President Donald Trump says the United States is talking with Cuba and raised the possibility of a “friendly takeover” of the island without explaining what that means

9:02 AM on Friday, February 27

The Pentagon has made a deal with Scouting America that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says would maintain their century-old partnership but refocus the organization away from “woke” policies

7:25 AM on Friday, February 27

Democratic lawmakers say former President Bill Clinton has tried to answer every question during a deposition over his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

6:40 AM on Friday, February 27

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s “not happy” with the latest talks over Iran’s nuclear program but has indicated he'll give the negotiators more time to reach a deal to avert another war in the Middle East

1:00 AM on Friday, February 27

In a break from tradition, refugees admitted to the United States after extensive interviews and vetting are being detained and questioned again

12:26 AM on Friday, February 27

President Donald Trump says he's “pretty much” made his decision on whom to endorse in Texas’ heated Republican Senate primary, but he still refuses to name his pick publicly

12:03 AM on Friday, February 27

The faces of Mexico’s disappeared paint the streets of Mexico’s second biggest city of Guadalajara