Politics & Government News

6:03 PM on Thursday, February 12

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis from North Carolina suggests he could support a compromise that would allow the Senate Banking Committee to start hearings on Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve

5:56 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.”

5:41 PM on Thursday, February 12

Analilia Mejia, a longtime progressive organizer allied with Sen. Bernie Sanders, has won a crowded special Democratic House primary to fill the open seat formerly held by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill

5:34 PM on Thursday, February 12

Analilia Mejia wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District special primary election

5:09 PM on Thursday, February 12

Sen. Rand Paul has challenged federal immigration officers over the shooting death of Alex Pretti and said the public has lost trust

5:05 PM on Thursday, February 12

President Donald Trump's Federal Trade Commission chairman has written to Apple chief Tim Cook, complaining that the company has “suppressed” content from conservative news sources in the Apple News feed loaded onto many of its devices

4:23 PM on Thursday, February 12

PEN America named Summer Lopez and Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf as its permanent co-CEOs after a leadership transition

4:11 PM on Thursday, February 12

4:10 PM on Thursday, February 12

The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass

3:42 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Environmental Protection Agency says it is ending credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles

3:38 PM on Thursday, February 12

The top antitrust official in the Trump administration is leaving her post amid tension about greenlighting big mergers in recent months

2:30 PM on Thursday, February 12

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa is sending troops into communities to help police fight illegal mining and gang violence

2:25 PM on Thursday, February 12

A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appears certain

12:20 PM on Thursday, February 12

A federal judge has used part of a court hearing to read email and social media death threats she received following her ruling blocking the Trump administration from ending temporary immigration protections for Haitians in the U.S. Judge Ana Reyes in Washington recently blocked the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging the Republican administration’s effort to end it proceeds

11:31 AM on Thursday, February 12

A lawyer appointed by judges to be the U.S. attorney for northern New York has been fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the process for selecting top federal prosecutors

10:37 AM on Thursday, February 12

The prime minister of Barbados has clinched a third consecutive term in office after securing all 30 seats of Parliament

8:06 AM on Thursday, February 12

UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country

12:05 AM on Thursday, February 12

European Union leaders reached a broad agreement Thursday in a Belgian castle to restructure the 27-nation bloc’s economy as they face antagonism from Trump, strong-China and Russia

12:01 AM on Thursday, February 12

Key senators and the families of the 67 people who died when an airliner and Army helicopter collided near Washington, D.C., are convinced advanced aircraft locator systems that experts have been recommending for decades would have prevented the crash

8:36 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Bangladesh has held its first election since the 2024 mass protests toppled Sheikh Hasina’s government