Politics & Government News

5:52 PM on Friday, September 5

The Trump administration is fighting Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s bid to apply for asylum

5:50 PM on Friday, September 5

A former Boston city councilor has been sentenced to a month in prison after she pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges in a kickback scheme involving a relative

5:35 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage

5:22 PM on Friday, September 5

Trump says US will host next year's Group of 20 summit at his golf club in Miami

5:16 PM on Friday, September 5

President Donald Trump’s push to rename the Department of Defense goes beyond subjective word choices about what to call the military agency

5:15 PM on Friday, September 5

New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will not end his reelection campaign

5:13 PM on Friday, September 5

Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump

4:37 PM on Friday, September 5

CBS says it will no longer allow editing of newsmaker interviews on its Sunday morning show “Face the Nation.”

4:22 PM on Friday, September 5

European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, plan to visit the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions

4:12 PM on Friday, September 5

Federal officials are moving a step closer to allowing state and federal prisons to jam cellphone signals from devices smuggled to inmates

3:57 PM on Friday, September 5

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary legal protections that have granted more than 1 million people from Haiti and Venezuela the right to live and work in the United States

3:51 PM on Friday, September 5

Judge blocks Trump administration's ending of legal protections for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians

3:26 PM on Friday, September 5

Peru’s Congress has rejected a long-delayed proposal to create the Yavari Mirim Indigenous Reserve

2:09 PM on Friday, September 5

Georgia is becoming the eighth state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D

1:13 PM on Friday, September 5

Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali, who has poured some of the South American country’s new oil wealth into popular social programs, is poised to serve a second term after this week's election, according to preliminary results Friday

12:51 PM on Friday, September 5

The attorneys general of California and Delaware have expressed serious concerns about the safety of OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, especially for children and teens

11:31 AM on Friday, September 5

Venezuelan mothers and grandmothers are appealing to U.S. first lady Melania Trump for help reuniting with their children

11:19 AM on Friday, September 5

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a $3.5 billion fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services

10:00 AM on Friday, September 5

A congressional investigation finds the Pentagon has funded research involving collaboration with Chinese entities linked to China's defense sector

12:04 AM on Friday, September 5

The families of some of the children who died at Texas' Camp Mystic during catastrophic flooding two months joined Gov. Greg Abbott for a ceremonial bill signing