Politics & Government News

8:49 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The federal government has asked a judge to halt the United States' first reparations program in Evanston, Illinois

7:56 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The NFL Players Association and National Basketball Players Association teamed up on letter to leaders of the Senate Commerce Committee, applauding their efforts on a recently introduced Senate bill designed to fix college sports

7:30 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Education Department is transferring oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies

7:19 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom

7:09 PM on Tuesday, June 16

6:27 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The U.S. Justice Department has accused New York state officials of facilitating fraud by letting a Georgia company use a sham bidding process to gain control of a $10 billion program to provide home care to disabled Medicaid patients

6:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk’s companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally running dozens of natural gas turbines to power a $20 billion data center in Mississippi

4:06 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — whose work helped propel artificial intelligence — is stressing in an Associated Press interview that society has no choice but to change in the advent of AI

4:05 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is using his bully pulpit to call for an end to the death penalty in his state

4:04 PM on Tuesday, June 16

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has visited Haiti, where surging gang violence has left more than 1 in 10 people homeless

3:16 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Contractors running Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities can rely more heavily on artificial intelligence tools to communicate with detainees and continue refusing to pay wages for detainees’ “voluntary work."

1:15 PM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s administration is further dismantling the Department of Education, moving oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies

12:44 PM on Tuesday, June 16

Federal prosecutors have charged 15 people with impeding federal agents during a massive immigration surge in Minnesota earlier this year

11:41 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Police in Chicago say a person is in custody in an investigation of a large cross set on fire in a well-known park

8:48 AM on Tuesday, June 16

President Donald Trump’s preferred candidates are having mixed results in Tuesday’s primaries, securing the Republican nominations for U.S. Senate in Alabama, Georgia and Oklahoma but not for Georgia governor

8:00 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Court papers say law enforcement officials disrupted a planned attack targeting the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House this past weekend

12:08 AM on Tuesday, June 16

Robert White Jr. has won the Democratic primary for the District of Columbia’s delegate seat in Congress

12:05 AM on Tuesday, June 16

U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern has won the Republican nomination in Oklahoma for the Senate seat once held by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin

12:02 AM on Tuesday, June 16

U.S. Rep. Barry Moore has won the Republican primary runoff for an open Senate seat in Alabama

Tuesday, June 16

Democrat Aisha Wahab has advanced to a special general election in California for the U.S. House seat formerly held by Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell