Politics & Government News

4:14 PM on Friday, April 17

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's office has threatened to cut state funding to Houston, Dallas, and Austin if they don't change policies limiting police cooperation with federal immigration authorities

3:15 PM on Friday, April 17

A federal judge in Rhode Island has dismissed the Trump administration's lawsuit demanding the state's unredacted voter rolls

3:01 PM on Friday, April 17

The Trump administration says it’s in talks with the IRS to resolve a $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax information

2:52 PM on Friday, April 17

The top election official in Arizona’s most populous county will get more authority in running elections after a judge sided with his office in a prolonged legal fight with the county board that shares responsibility for overseeing voting

2:38 PM on Friday, April 17

The U.S. government plans another oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

1:52 PM on Friday, April 17

A West Virginia transgender girl who competes on her high school girls' track team says she's focused on having fun with her friends

11:52 AM on Friday, April 17

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the flow of drugs into the U.S. by sea has been nearly eradicated under his administration

11:06 AM on Friday, April 17

India's lower house of Parliament has failed to pass a bill to implement reservation of a third of seats for women lawmakers

9:43 AM on Friday, April 17

9:26 AM on Friday, April 17

The Malaysian coast guard say they foiled an attempt by 25 Myanmar migrants to enter the country illegally

9:06 AM on Friday, April 17

The Associated Press and Grist have collaborated on a project to analyze how federal policy changes on energy are affecting farmers

9:03 AM on Friday, April 17

Farmers in the U.S. operate on the thinnest of margins, and some have looked to renewable energy as a way to cut costs on electricity

6:24 AM on Friday, April 17

Fifteen people deported from the U.S. have landed in Congo's capital, Kinshasa

6:08 AM on Friday, April 17

The small Balkan nation of Kosovo says it wants to commit dozens of its security troops to an international force for Gaza because it appreciates what NATO-led peacekeepers have done for its own security since the 1998-99 war with Serbia

4:24 AM on Friday, April 17

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington, despite Mandelson failing security checks

3:32 AM on Friday, April 17

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has started a two-day visit to Spain on Friday when he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez met a day before they will gather with other leaders who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right

12:19 AM on Friday, April 17

Congress has approved a short-term renewal of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies just days before it was set to expire

12:08 AM on Friday, April 17

France and the U.K. have welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that the Strait of Hormuz is open

12:01 AM on Friday, April 17

Democrats running for governor in Georgia are scrambling for attention and cash

Friday, April 17

President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents