Politics & Government News

12:47 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to TikTok and its Chinese parent company highly overrated

12:18 PM on Friday, August 22

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped an investigation into a buy now, pay later company linked to President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. The agency says the investigation was politically motivated against firearms companies and Trump Jr. On Tuesday, the CFPB notified Public Square Holdings subsidiary Credova it was no longer under investigation

11:50 AM on Friday, August 22

10:45 AM on Friday, August 22

National Guard members who are on the streets in Washington for Trump's crackdown will soon be armed, military says

10:01 AM on Friday, August 22

The Associated Press has used an "efficiency gap" analysis to examine congressional elections in 2024 and other recent presidential election years

10:00 AM on Friday, August 22

Powell signals the Federal Reserve is open to cutting rates but gives no indication of the timing in Jackson Hole speech

9:59 AM on Friday, August 22

Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics

8:28 AM on Friday, August 22

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7:34 AM on Friday, August 22

FBI searches home of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of documents investigation, AP source says

7:03 AM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse previous decisions against capital punishment

5:47 AM on Friday, August 22

Former Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe arrested on allegations of misusing state funds, aide says

3:08 AM on Friday, August 22

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company is discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration

2:51 AM on Friday, August 22

Russia needs more workers, primarily due to its war in Ukraine

2:23 AM on Friday, August 22

Israel’s defense minister says Gaza City could be destroyed unless Hamas accepts Israel’s terms, as new offensive looms

2:10 AM on Friday, August 22

Thaksin Shinawatra, the billionaire former prime minister of Thailand, remains one of the country’s most influential and controversial figures nearly two decades after being ousted in a 2006 military coup

12:01 AM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city

9:17 PM on Thursday, August 21

Barely two months into office, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung faces a pivotal foreign policy test, heading into back-to-back summits in Tokyo and Washington that reflect the wider struggle of U.S. allies to navigate President Donald Trump’s unilateral push to redefine postwar orders on trade, security and alliances

3:43 PM on Thursday, August 21

Federal safety investigators and some members of Congress want to expand special safety rules that apply to trains carrying flammable material to many more trains, saying the risk to many U.S. communities is far greater than currently known

3:21 PM on Thursday, August 21

Ghanaian singer Shatta Wale was detained and then released in connection with a probe linked to his purchase of a luxury car