Politics & Government News

7:38 PM on Monday, August 18

The late President Jimmy Carter is being honored with a commemorative Forever stamp

7:24 PM on Monday, August 18

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida was in the country illegally, fueling a verbal tussle with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office over immigration

6:32 PM on Monday, August 18

An American Orthodox archbishop exchanged warm greetings and gifts of holy icons with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska

6:12 PM on Monday, August 18

Trump says he has begun arrangements for face-to-face meeting between Russia's Putin and Ukraine's Zelenskyy

6:05 PM on Monday, August 18

Louisiana becomes sixth GOP-led state to authorize troop deployment to DC as part of Trump show of force

5:47 PM on Monday, August 18

The judges of the Southern District of New York have approved Jay Clayton to remain as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan

5:29 PM on Monday, August 18

An Iowa Democratic state lawmaker is bowing out of the 2026 U.S. Senate primary race and endorsing a colleague as the “best hope” to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst

4:56 PM on Monday, August 18

A walkout by Democratic legislators in Texas has ended, and Republicans are arranging to push a plan for redrawing the state’s congressional districts through the GOP-controlled Legislature

4:34 PM on Monday, August 18

A judge for the U.S. District Court in Washington has issued an injunction preventing the Trump administration's Federal Trade Commission from investigating Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog organization

4:32 PM on Monday, August 18

A federal agent fired three shots at a moving vehicle after the driver sped off following an immigration stop in Southern California

3:03 PM on Monday, August 18

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting in the Oval Office was notably different from their last encounter in February

2:27 PM on Monday, August 18

A coalition of attorneys general from 20 states and Washington, D

2:25 PM on Monday, August 18

1:56 PM on Monday, August 18

Trump says the US would back European security guarantees for Ukraine to help end the war with Russia

11:46 AM on Monday, August 18

The conservative network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss

9:14 AM on Monday, August 18

The television network MSNBC will change its name later this year as part of its corporate divorce from NBC

4:26 AM on Monday, August 18

At least 25 people are missing after a boat capsized Sunday on a river in northwestern Nigeria

11:53 PM on Sunday, August 17

The California Legislature comes back from a summer recess and is slated to vote on a partisan plan to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterms

11:51 PM on Sunday, August 17

A federal judge considered whether detainees have been denied their legal rights at a temporary immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades

8:22 PM on Sunday, August 17