Politics & Government News

5:50 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state

5:21 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates

4:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

4:43 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Soldiers of the Nigerian Army have reportedly killed nine women protesting the army’s handling of communal clashes in the northeastern Adamawa state

4:05 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors

4:03 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Frustrated by the city’s slow progress in painting crosswalks at intersections they believe are unsafe, activists in Los Angeles have been picking up paint rollers and doing it themselves

3:57 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country plans to send more water to the U.S., but not immediately

3:10 PM on Tuesday, December 9

3:04 PM on Tuesday, December 9

France’s lower house of parliament has narrowly approved a key health care budget bill, offering the minority government some relief from political turmoil

2:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods

2:35 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Gov_ Ron DeSantis has labeled the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a "foreign terrorist organization."

1:18 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The owner of a Massachusetts assisted-living facility that was the site of a fatal fire and an inspection company have sued each other over who is at fault for failure to address a faulty sprinkler system

1:03 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Trump administration is threatening to pull public transportation funding from Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside a commuter train

12:49 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares

10:43 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration

9:26 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge in New York has granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant

7:22 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A new study says that more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists report online violence and over 40% of them have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse

7:10 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Hundreds of Nicaraguans caroled the Virgin Mary at flower-and-light-filled altars set up in church parking lots as well as the back of vehicles on the streets of Miami to mark the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

4:14 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his refusal to cede territory, resisting U.S. pressure for compromise with Russia

12:07 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president