Politics & Government News

6:09 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The Trump administration is expanding its growing Medicaid fraud crackdown to Florida

6:01 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Peru’s prime minister has resigned from her post

5:54 PM on Tuesday, March 17

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America to full operations, putting hundreds of journalists who have been on administrative leave for a year back to work

5:21 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Just over a year ago, the Trump administration began an immigration enforcement campaign that swept up multiple people who had participated in pro-Palestinian activism on U.S. campuses

4:19 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Gregory Bovino says he plans to retire from the U.S. Border Patrol in the coming weeks

4:14 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Cuba’s widening economic turmoil along with its growing political tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump have paralyzed much of the island

3:43 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The transit agency in charge of New York City’s subway system has sued the Trump administration

3:37 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and the agency’s handling of millions of files related to the disgraced financier

3:34 PM on Tuesday, March 17

2:59 PM on Tuesday, March 17

The Wisconsin state Senate has passed a $133 million package to combat contamination from forever chemicals

2:52 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Jurors in Ohio have begun deliberating in the corruption trial of two fired FirstEnergy Corp. executives charged for their alleged roles in the $60 million bribery scheme centered on a $1 billion nuclear plant bailout

2:49 PM on Tuesday, March 17

A federal judge has for now halted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest vaccine moves, disrupting his push to remake U.S. immunization policy

1:11 PM on Tuesday, March 17

Democratic U.S. Senate hopefuls Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner are sparring over an advertisement released by the Mills campaign criticizing Platner’s past online comments

11:41 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Ecuador’s president rejected allegations that his country is bombing targets in neighboring Colombia

11:25 AM on Tuesday, March 17

U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are calling for new people in charge of Cuba as the socialist island experiences its third nationwide blackout in four months

9:49 AM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump is pushing back against claims by the director of the National Counterterrorism Center about the motivations for the Iran war

7:03 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Republicans have launched an unprecedented effort to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won’t pass — an attempt to capture public attention on legislation requiring stricter voter registration rules as President Donald Trump pressures Congress to act before November’s midterm elections

12:23 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Sen. Markwayne Mullin has a tough path as he moves toward leading the Department of Homeland Security, with immigration fights, disaster anger and Iran threats piling up

12:05 AM on Tuesday, March 17

Legislation that would require proof of U.S. citizenship for new voters has become a rallying cry for President Donald Trump

12:03 AM on Tuesday, March 17

President Donald Trump and his team are increasing the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants