Politics & Government News

4:39 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Obama aides have described how they underestimated Donald Trump before his 2016 presidential run, even as his influence grew online and in politics

4:04 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Stephen Colbert’s comments that network executives pulled his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico over fears it would violate regulatory guidance from the Trump administration has prompted a conversation about how media outlets treat political coverage

2:34 PM on Tuesday, February 17

New Jersey’s acting attorney general won't ask the state Supreme Court to review the dismissal of racketeering charges against Democratic power broker George E

2:26 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Peru's Congress votes to remove interim President José Jerí as prosecutors look into corruption allegations against him

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The White House has picked longtime Las Vegas defense lawyer George Kelesis as its nominee for U.S. attorney in Nevada

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia entered the news in March 2025 after he was deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling that should have prevented it

1:52 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Afghanistan says it has released three Pakistani soldiers it had captured during cross-border fighting last October

1:36 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Colombia said it will resume talks with the country's largest illegal armed group, the Gulf Clan

1:30 PM on Tuesday, February 17

The Trump administration has backed Kalshi and Polymarket in a court fight over whether prediction markets constitute gambling

12:52 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Michigan lawmakers are seeking answers after the state shelved a $1.1 million report on Native American boarding schools

12:45 PM on Tuesday, February 17

A federal judge has ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the U.S. government has no viable plan for deporting him

12:35 PM on Tuesday, February 17

Judge says government can't take Kilmar Abrego Garcia into immigration custody because it lacks viable deportation plan

11:02 AM on Tuesday, February 17

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years despite challenges over his health, the coronavirus pandemic, racial injustice and political divisions

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Many people who knew and worked with the Rev. Jesse L

8:12 AM on Tuesday, February 17

Thomas Pritzker will retire as the executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels after details of his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein were revealed in documents related to the burgeoning investigation of ties the notorious sex trafficker had to the elite and powerful