Politics & Government News

6:32 PM on Wednesday, February 11

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is backing Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette's bid to succeed him, and he tries to thin a crowded Republican primary

6:23 PM on Wednesday, February 11

The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing

6:20 PM on Wednesday, February 11

The temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas has caused unease south of the U.S. border and put the spotlight on the use of drones by Mexican cartels

6:18 PM on Wednesday, February 11

House votes to slap back Trump's tariffs on Canada in rare bipartisan rebuke of White House agenda

5:53 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Melania Trump celebrated an early Valentine's Day with children and young adults receiving treatment for rare and serious diseases

5:34 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Nebraska’s secretary of state says he will hand over sensitive voter data to the U.S. Justice Department after the state Supreme Court refused to block the move

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4:49 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Iowa’s top election official and a group of voters the state had flagged as potential noncitizens just ahead of the 2024 presidential election settled a federal lawsuit that will prevent the state from relying exclusively on driver’s license records for citizenship data in the three months before an election

4:10 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Montana’s Republican attorney general says he’s investigating the city of Helena for potential violations of the state’s sanctuary city ban

4:03 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Italy’s conservative government led by Premier Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday has approved a bill introducing new measures aimed at fighting illegal immigration, including a so-called “naval blockade” for migrant ships trying to reach Italian shores

3:35 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Valeria Chomsky says she and her husband Noam Chomsky made serious errors in judgment in their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

3:34 PM on Wednesday, February 11

The build-out of electric vehicle charging in the U.S. has not stopped since President Donald Trump returned to office

3:33 PM on Wednesday, February 11

President Donald Trump has escalated a feud with the National Governors Association chair over who gets invited to White House events

3:10 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Chris Nanos has had a long career in law enforcement, but he admits he isn’t used to the amount of scrutiny that has come with leading the investigation into the disappearance of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s mother

2:34 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Nevada has launched a new statewide policy that puts clear labels on how sensitive state data is and how agencies protect it

9:24 AM on Wednesday, February 11

The Federal Aviation Administration has reopened the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas, just hours after it announced a 10-day closure that would have grounded all flights to and from the airport

12:02 AM on Wednesday, February 11

President Donald Trump met privately with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday and says he pushed Israel to back continued U.S. talks with Iran on a nuclear deal

9:39 AM on Tuesday, February 10

Maine’s Republican Sen. Susan Collins has announced her reelection bid, entering a closely watched race that Democrats have targeted in their effort to retake the Senate majority in Congress in this year’s midterm elections