Politics & Government News

8:03 PM on Friday, December 12

The federal government’s crackdown on commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants has now found problems in eight states in the wake of several deadly crashes

5:47 PM on Friday, December 12

Indiana Republican senators turned down President Donald Trump's redistricting proposal this week

5:36 PM on Friday, December 12

Puerto Rico tax incentives that have lured thousands of rich Americans to the U.S. territory for over a decade are under scrutiny after federal legislators released a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office

4:27 PM on Friday, December 12

3:46 PM on Friday, December 12

South Africa’s communications minister has ordered a policy change that allows Elon Musk's Starlink and other foreign-owned satellite internet providers to operate in the country without selling 30% of their local equity to Black or other non-white owners

3:11 PM on Friday, December 12

U.N. experts warn that the treason trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president is further eroding a 2018 peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir

3:01 PM on Friday, December 12

Florida officials are plowing ahead with a proposal to roll back certain vaccine mandates for the state’s schoolchildren

2:59 PM on Friday, December 12

The United States has accused Rwanda of violating a peace agreement by supporting a rebel offensive in eastern Congo

2:50 PM on Friday, December 12

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced $350 million in funding for relief efforts following Hurricane Helene and Tropical Storm Debby

2:35 PM on Friday, December 12

Illinois residents with terminal illnesses may choose to end their lives on their own terms under a law Gov. JB Pritzker has signed

2:06 PM on Friday, December 12

The U.S. Justice Department is suing four more states as part of its effort to collect detailed voting data and other election information across the country

2:05 PM on Friday, December 12

The U.S. has removed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes from its sanctions list

1:28 PM on Friday, December 12

The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March

11:25 AM on Friday, December 12

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate allegations made by a former attorney for President Donald Trump in Wisconsin that a judge overseeing his felony case is guilty of misconduct and must step aside

11:22 AM on Friday, December 12

President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project

10:54 AM on Friday, December 12

Libyan authorities report that a notorious militia leader, Ahmed Oumar al-Fitouri al-Dabbashi, was killed in a raid by security forces on Friday

10:41 AM on Friday, December 12

President Donald Trump says he hasn’t seen the photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate released Friday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, but says they are not a big deal

9:06 AM on Friday, December 12

President Donald Trump says Thai and Cambodian leaders have agreed to renew a truce after days of deadly clashes threatened to undo a ceasefire that the U.S. administration helped broker this year

7:25 AM on Friday, December 12

Since pandemic-fueled anti-Asian hate surged in 2020, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander advocates have mobilized to make AAPI history mandatory learning

12:02 AM on Friday, December 12

A pair of lawsuits seeking to redraw congressional boundary lines that currently favor Republicans in Wisconsin are on track to be resolved after the 2026 midterms