Politics & Government News

3:01 PM on Friday, December 5

Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, says his father has chosen him to run for president in 2026

2:27 PM on Friday, December 5

2:02 PM on Friday, December 5

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship

2:01 PM on Friday, December 5

The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution

1:35 PM on Friday, December 5

A California district attorney who was recalled from office last year says she'll run again in the June 2026 primary election

1:34 PM on Friday, December 5

The World Food Program warns that hunger could reach catastrophic levels in parts of Cameroon if a $67 million funding target is not met

1:16 PM on Friday, December 5

Melania Trump has continued a decades-old first lady tradition of visiting with hospitalized children for the holidays

12:59 PM on Friday, December 5

World Cup draw begins with Trump, Canada's Carney, Mexico's Sheinbaum picking first balls

12:56 PM on Friday, December 5

US and Ukrainian officials to hold further talks Friday on US-mediated peace proposal aimed at ending Russia-Ukraine war

12:18 PM on Friday, December 5

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to more than 30 countries

11:47 AM on Friday, December 5

The Lebanese prime minister has told a visiting U.N. delegation that his country will need a follow-up force in southern Lebanon along the border with Israel to fill the vacuum once the U.N. peacekeepers’ term there expires by the end of next year

11:29 AM on Friday, December 5

The deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says that the investigation into the invasion of Ukraine cannot be halted by peace talks but could be deferred by the U.N. Security Council

9:46 AM on Friday, December 5

Pakistan’s military has described the country's imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan as a mentally ill person after the former premier used the same words for the popular army chief

9:16 AM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump's White House has established a hall of shame for journalists it finds guilty of media bias as it looks for new avenues of attack against legacy news outlets

9:06 AM on Friday, December 5

The Cooper family has worked in the coal industry in Colorado for generations

8:59 AM on Friday, December 5

President Donald Trump has come out with a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere

8:15 AM on Friday, December 5

Germany’s parliament has approved a pension reform package that had prompted a rebellion in the ranks of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party, averting a crisis for the government after a bumpy first seven months in office

7:17 AM on Friday, December 5

When President Donald Trump suspended the refugee program, he left thousands stranded worldwide

6:31 AM on Friday, December 5

European Union regulators have fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros for failing to comply with digital regulations

9:40 AM on Thursday, December 4

Northwest Arkansas has emerged as a hot spot in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration