Politics & Government News

1:25 AM on Saturday, June 6

Voters in Kosovo are heading to the polls this weekend for the third time in 18 months

12:05 AM on Saturday, June 6

Joe Biden isn't on the ballot this fall, but three of his administration members are running for governor

12:02 AM on Saturday, June 6

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers

8:12 PM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has sided with 20 Democratic states and halted an effort by the Trump administration to force states to comply with a range of conditions to get billions of dollars from the federal food aid program

7:51 PM on Friday, June 5

Democrat Xavier Becerra has advanced to the general election for California governor after pitching himself as an experienced choice to lead the nation’s most populous state

7:38 PM on Friday, June 5

California Democratic Rep. Doris Matsui has advanced to the November ballot after facing a reelection challenge from a younger Democrat

7:25 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.N. food agency says millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high

7:25 PM on Friday, June 5

7:09 PM on Friday, June 5

President Donald Trump is keeping open the possibility of speaking directly with Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te— even after Beijing has publicly urged him not to

6:37 PM on Friday, June 5

Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said there’s no talk of a merger with the Big Ten and called the notion that the SEC wants to form a super league as “not consistent with the truth.”

6:35 PM on Friday, June 5

The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles says it has opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center

6:06 PM on Friday, June 5

Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were told Friday that they were being fired, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of Director Kash Patel

5:39 PM on Friday, June 5

President Donald Trump is calling for the U.S. military and national security agencies to accelerate their use of artificial intelligence

5:19 PM on Friday, June 5

A range of social movements in Mexico are capitalizing on impending FIFA World Cup celebrations next week to put pressure on authorities and make demands

4:31 PM on Friday, June 5

2:40 PM on Friday, June 5

With virtually no strings attached, Congress is on the verge of providing a massive infusion of cash to the Homeland Security Department

1:57 PM on Friday, June 5

Inflation is rising again, squeezing budgets and making essentials harder to afford

1:53 PM on Friday, June 5

President Donald Trump says he wants his new acting director of national intelligence to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during his second term

8:19 AM on Friday, June 5

A federal judge has struck down a Trump administration policy that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to enter and stay in the U.S. The judge criticized the policy for putting immigrants' lives in "indeterminate legal limbo" and accused the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of ignoring the law

12:01 AM on Friday, June 5

Graham Platner, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, insists voters will support him despite controversies about his past