Politics & Government News

5:30 PM on Friday, March 20

A Missouri judge has struck down the ballot summary for a potential referendum on a congressional redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump

5:25 PM on Friday, March 20

Trump says he is considering 'winding down' Middle East military operation even as US sends more troops to region

5:18 PM on Friday, March 20

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy limiting news reporters’ access to the Pentagon, ruling that key portions of the new rules are unlawful

5:12 PM on Friday, March 20

Judge sides with New York Times in challenge to Trump administration policy limiting reporters’ access to Pentagon

5:01 PM on Friday, March 20

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security has failed to advance in the Senate amid growing concerns about long lines to get through screening at some of the country’s biggest airports

4:59 PM on Friday, March 20

The State Department is setting up 12 regional hubs to coordinate disaster and emergency humanitarian responses under the auspices of a new bureau that will oversee some of the functions that had been handled by the now-dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development

4:40 PM on Friday, March 20

California disclosures show state lawmakers accept lots of free travel and gifts from groups with business at the Capitol

4:07 PM on Friday, March 20

Brazil’s finance minister Fernando Haddad has resigned to launch a bid for São Paulo governor

3:14 PM on Friday, March 20

A former professional wrestler accused of misspending millions of welfare dollars in part of Mississippi’s largest public corruption scandal has been found not guilty by a jury

2:58 PM on Friday, March 20

The first of five high school protesters detained for days in Pennsylvania after a scuffle with a man who turned out to be the police chief entered a probationary program designed to spare him a criminal record

2:41 PM on Friday, March 20

Cuba’s Revolutionary Armed Forces has gifted troubadour Silvio Rodríguez a combat AKM rifle and a replica of one after he recently said he would take up arms for the island

2:14 PM on Friday, March 20

12:58 PM on Friday, March 20

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press

12:47 PM on Friday, March 20

Georgia has become the first state in the U.S. to suspend fuel taxes after the war in the Middle East sent pump prices soaring

11:20 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military says it attacked an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

10:47 AM on Friday, March 20

The Justice Department has filed a new lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of failing to address antisemitism on campus

9:37 AM on Friday, March 20

Does California’s race for governor finally have a leader

9:04 AM on Friday, March 20

The White House is laying out a new framework that it wants Congress to use to shape national rules for artificial intelligence without curbing growth in the sector

12:33 AM on Friday, March 20

The U.S. military is deploying three more warships and roughly 2,500 more marines to the Middle East as Iran fires on Israel and energy sites in neighboring Gulf Arab states, sending oil and gas prices soaring

6:01 PM on Thursday, March 19

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says a 19-year-old Mexican migrant has died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees