Politics & Government News

9:44 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Turkey on what was effectively a decoy plane, while President Donald Trump was secreted onto another plane following an Iranian threat

7:41 PM on Wednesday, August 12

U_S_ Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the government of Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella has requested U_S_ collaboration in joint military operations in Colombia to combat “narco-terrorism.”

5:50 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The United Nations says Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the country

4:41 PM on Wednesday, August 12

4:35 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Republicans in Minnesota see a chance to regain influence after a fraud scandal rocked state government

4:34 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The Texas Broadband Development Office has paused disbursements of federal funds for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program

4:32 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give officers gloves that deliver painful electric shocks is facing criticism from Democratic elected officials and civil rights advocates, who call it unnecessary and cruel

4:24 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A new law in Pennsylvania aims to resolve a long-standing legal battle over natural gas rights, but it might have sparked more complications

3:53 PM on Wednesday, August 12

The Department of Justice has charged nearly a dozen people with participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to help hundreds of Chinese nationals fraudulently obtain green cards through sham marriages to U.S. citizens

3:48 PM on Wednesday, August 12

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be leaving the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend time with her young family

3:19 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A small Kansas town has agreed to pay $850,000 to a former reporter at its weekly newspaper to end her federal lawsuit over a police raid of the paper’s offices in 2023 that ignited a national furor over press freedom

3:06 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A liquefied natural gas terminal near New Orleans is seeking a major expansion under a new Trump administration emergency permitting process

2:17 PM on Wednesday, August 12

A Pentagon review has found that U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last year killed more than 150 civilians

1:34 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Morocco has beefed up security along its border with Spain as calls have resurfaced on social media for mass crossings into the Spanish city of Ceuta, raising concerns of another surge, similar to the one last month when tens of thousands of migrants rushed the border

12:51 PM on Wednesday, August 12

12:34 PM on Wednesday, August 12

Lawyers for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk say he shouldn’t be eligible for the death penalty because the shooter hit the “intended target” during an event attended by thousands of people last year in Utah

11:32 AM on Wednesday, August 12

Results in Democratic primaries in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Connecticut have reiterated that Democratic voters are hungry for change, even as they remain divided over the party’s ideological future

11:10 AM on Wednesday, August 12

David Crowley’s razor-thin primary win over a democratic socialist in swing state Wisconsin sets up a match against a congressman who has voted with President Donald Trump 100% of the time

8:22 AM on Wednesday, August 12

President Donald Trump says White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave the administration at the end of the month to spend more time with her family

4:39 AM on Wednesday, August 12

A drone strike has ignited a fire at an electrical substation in western Libya, knocking it out of service