Politics & Government News

3:03 PM on Friday, October 3

Government funding legislation fails again in the Senate with little sign of progress on third day of shutdown

2:59 PM on Friday, October 3

FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives and prominent allies of President Donald Trump

2:57 PM on Friday, October 3

North Carolina’s Democratic governor has signed into law a criminal justice measure pushed by the Republican-controlled legislature in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train

2:52 PM on Friday, October 3

Several Democratic state attorneys general say the Trump administration has backed away from requiring states to agree to cooperate with the president’s immigration agenda in order to access federal money for programs that help victims of crime

2:34 PM on Friday, October 3

More than 68 million people in the United States identify as ethnically Hispanic, making it one the nation’s fastest growing racial or ethnic groups

2:14 PM on Friday, October 3

A Georgia special state Senate committee plans to question Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis next month

2:11 PM on Friday, October 3

A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict

2:02 PM on Friday, October 3

A court in Armenia has sentenced a prominent cleric to two years in prison

1:44 PM on Friday, October 3

A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to the president and a threat to state security

1:30 PM on Friday, October 3

1:26 PM on Friday, October 3

Federal agents have detained several people near an immigration facility outside Chicago

1:12 PM on Friday, October 3

A lawsuit that claimed the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees had provided more than $1 billion that enabled Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel was dismissed this week by a federal judge in New York

1:01 PM on Friday, October 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, expanding what the Trump administration has declared is an “armed conflict” with cartels

11:32 AM on Friday, October 3

Federal officials have confirmed Florida's approval for a $608 million reimbursement for building and running an immigration detention center in the Everglades

10:58 AM on Friday, October 3

From Wall Street trading floors to the Federal Reserve to economists sipping coffee in their home offices, the first Friday morning of the month typically brings a quiet hush around 8:30 a.m. eastern, as everyone awaits the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report

9:49 AM on Friday, October 3

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is to hold face-to-face talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House

9:36 AM on Friday, October 3

The Supreme Court says it'll take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii

7:46 AM on Friday, October 3

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown were fading Friday as Republicans and Democrats dug in for a prolonged fight and President Donald Trump readied plans to unleash layoffs and cuts across the federal government

7:08 AM on Friday, October 3

The Senate fails to advance a Republican bill that would reopen the government

12:08 AM on Thursday, October 2

Karen Attiah, a former opinion columnist at The Washington Post, says she was fired after social media posts expressing concerns about gun violence and rhetoric against Black women