Politics & Government News

5:21 AM on Thursday, April 16

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is receiving the prestigious International Four Freedoms Award

2:48 AM on Thursday, April 16

Lionel Rosenblatt, a high-profile advocate for refugee rights, has died at 82 after a battle with cancer

12:02 AM on Thursday, April 16

From its earliest days as a country, the diverse United States has aspired to unity

8:35 PM on Wednesday, April 15

More than three dozen Democrats supported an effort by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to block arms sales to Israel, signaling a growing discontent in the party with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the wars in Gaza and Iran

8:33 PM on Wednesday, April 15

A California attorney who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power following his 2020 election loss is no longer licensed to practice in California

6:49 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop

6:27 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The South Carolina Senate has approved a proposal to protect nearly every historic statue, monument, and building name from changes or removal

5:03 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Illinois lawmakers are frustrated with the state Department of Corrections after an audit revealed ongoing issues with spending and safety

4:11 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The Trump administration is setting the stage to shift its war campaign toward a more economically focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission rather than relying on bombs alone

3:10 PM on Wednesday, April 15

For months, New York Gov_ Kathy Hochul has resisted calls to increase taxes on the wealthy, beating back progressives who have hounded her from Manhattan to San Juan bellowing chants of “tax the rich.”

3:07 PM on Wednesday, April 15

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration

2:56 PM on Wednesday, April 15

The Republican-led Senate has rejected the latest Democratic attempt to halt President Donald Trump’s war in Iran

2:46 PM on Wednesday, April 15

President Donald Trump’s budget director is telling Congress that it'll take a massive upfront investment to ramp up U.S. weapons production and build more ships, planes and drones

11:35 AM on Wednesday, April 15

A lawyer says guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at a state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades

11:26 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump appears strained

7:05 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Melania Trump has made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to pass a series of bills to update a nearly 30-year-old federal foster care program

6:49 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar says the country's president has assured him that his new government could take power in the first week of May

2:38 AM on Wednesday, April 15

Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour

12:30 AM on Wednesday, April 15

The United Nations says at least 250 people including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals are either feared dead or missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently

12:30 AM on Wednesday, April 15

There's been a holdup on Capitol Hill in advancing the renewal of a program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners’ calls, texts and emails