Politics & Government News

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

5:04 PM on Friday, February 27

It has been seven weeks since the Iranian government used brute force to extinguish huge nationwide protests

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.”

4:38 PM on Friday, February 27

A New York businesswoman has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison over a financial scheme that prosecutors say ripped off more than $30 million from foreign investors and funneled some of the stolen funds to U.S. political campaigns, including a campaign fundraiser for President Donald Trump

4:15 PM on Friday, February 27

Shortly after it became known that Paramount was the apparent victor in the competition to buy CNN's parent company, network president Mark Thompson was compelled to send his staff a note to calm down, in effect

4:01 PM on Friday, February 27

Paramount’s possible takeover of Warner Bros

4:00 PM on Friday, February 27

Connecticut lawmakers aim to crack down on out-of-state bottle returns after the state’s 10-cent deposit drew a wave of fraud

3:58 PM on Friday, February 27

Trump orders all federal agencies to phase out use of Anthropic technology after AI company's dispute with Pentagon

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

2:48 PM on Friday, February 27

The United States swept both Olympic hockey gold medals only to see the celebrations turn into a political flashpoint

2:41 PM on Friday, February 27

Hawaiʻi lawmakers still have a broad set of bills in play that aim to protect immigrants and limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement

2:38 PM on Friday, February 27

Venezuelan politician Enrique Márquez is calling on his country's opposition and ruling party to work together after former President Nicolás Maduro’s ouster

2:30 PM on Friday, February 27

1:39 PM on Friday, February 27

Two American cardinals and the Vatican’s ambassador to the U.S. denounced the mass deportations in Minnesota under the federal government’s immigration crackdown

12:25 PM on Friday, February 27

A U.S. civil rights agency has determined that the federal government can bar transgender employees from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, dismissing an appeal from a transgender woman who worked for the U.S. Army

11:44 AM on Friday, February 27

Two ports run for years by a Hong Kong-based company at either end of the Panama Canal have thrust Panama into a geopolitical tug-of-war between the United States and China

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

4:13 AM on Friday, February 27

The Swedish military says that a Russian drone carried out an unauthorized flight off southern Sweden earlier this week while a French aircraft carrier was docked in the port of Malmö

12:03 AM on Friday, February 27

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

10:46 PM on Thursday, February 26

Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries