Politics & Government News

7:32 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Republican Rep. Clay Fuller of Georgia is the newest member of the House

7:15 PM on Tuesday, April 14

5:54 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Republicans in Congress are forging ahead with a risky go-it-alone strategy for funding the Department of Homeland Security

4:56 PM on Tuesday, April 14

President Donald Trump has again denied a request from Colorado’s governor to help people affected by wildfires and flooding

2:32 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Protesters in Slovakia's capital and elsewhere in the country have denounced a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to scrap mail voting for Slovaks living abroad

2:29 PM on Tuesday, April 14

A judge in Austin has ordered the temporary reinstatement of Texas's Historically Underutilized Business Program rules

2:21 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Democrats in Congress are trying to overturn the Trump administration's changes to a student loan forgiveness program

2:11 PM on Tuesday, April 14

A California woman says she was raped by Rep. Eric Swalwell in 2018 and now plans to make a report to law enforcement

1:56 PM on Tuesday, April 14

The Kennedy Center's new executive director, Matt Floca, is leading tours to show the building's need for major repairs

1:25 PM on Tuesday, April 14

A bill that requires doctors to report on transgender-related healthcare has passed the Tennessee Senate

1:03 PM on Tuesday, April 14

Virginia voters are set to decide next week on a Democratic-drawn redistricting plan that could boost the party's chances in the U.S. House

12:03 PM on Tuesday, April 14

The Trump administration has fired four Justice Department prosecutors involved in cases against anti-abortion activists

11:45 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The most popular last names in the U.S. might be unchanged from the previous decade, but Asian surnames were the fastest-growing at the start of 2020s

11:21 AM on Tuesday, April 14

An appeals court panel has ruled that a federal judge must end his contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year

10:01 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The American Postal Workers Union is launching a national TV ad campaign promoting voting by mail

8:50 AM on Tuesday, April 14

The Irish government has survived a confidence vote over how it handled a week of disruptive fuel protests that cut off oil supplies and caused massive traffic jams

7:28 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Spain's government has finalized a migrant amnesty measure that paves the way for potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status in the country

12:02 AM on Tuesday, April 14

An aviation safety bill seeking to address lessons learned from last year’s midair collision of a jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., was approved by the House Tuesday

12:01 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Pope Leo XIV, a studious and soft-spoken cleric, and Donald Trump, an unapologetically bellicose politician, have long been on a rhetorical collision course

12:01 AM on Tuesday, April 14

Candidates for California governor have gathered for the first time since U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s dramatic exit over sexual assault allegations