Politics & Government News

4:32 PM on Tuesday, June 9

4:15 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Brazilian police have rescued more than 100 Cuban migrants from human smugglers at the northern border with Guyana

4:05 PM on Tuesday, June 9

President Donald Trump seems to bring bad luck to home teams when he attends big games

4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba

3:39 PM on Tuesday, June 9

A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millions of tax dollars were wasted on contractors

3:20 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella is urging prosecutors to investigate possible voter coercion by rebel groups in favor of governing party candidate Iván Cepeda

12:59 PM on Tuesday, June 9

The gap between Peru's presidential candidates has narrowed to less than 20,000 votes with 96% of ballots counted after Sunday's runoff

12:46 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than previously expected

11:26 AM on Tuesday, June 9

President Donald Trump last year dramatically ratcheted up the fee for H-1B work visas to $100,000, saying it would protect American workers from losing their jobs to lower-paid foreigners

10:49 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Vice President JD Vance is pressing federal prosecutors to investigate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and state Attorney General Keith Ellison over allegations they failed to stop widespread social services fraud, amplifying concerns the White House will use a new Justice Department division to target political rivals

10:48 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon

9:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says things are getting a lot better

8:20 AM on Tuesday, June 9

7:25 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently

7:02 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Renderings of a dramatically redesigned Pennsylvania Station in New York City have been released by Amtrak and the developers

6:45 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Chinese and North Korean state-run media devoted thousands of words to President Xi Jinping’s summit with leader Kim Jong Un in North Korea this week but didn't mention a key matter for Washington: the North’s steadfast pursuit of nuclear weapons that could threaten the United States and its allies in Asia

6:30 AM on Tuesday, June 9

The White House's South Lawn has hosted many sports over the decades but never a UFC fight like the one President Donald Trump is organizing for his 80th birthday

6:26 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Chinese President Xi Jinping has returned home, ending a rare state visit to North Korea

5:26 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nordic and Baltic leaders at summit in Estonia amid tensions over Ukrainian drones straying into the region

12:01 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Spencer Pratt’s improbable rise from reality television personality to national political sensation ended when he failed to qualify for the runoff to challenge Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass