Politics & Government News

8:23 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Democrat Graham Platner says he plans to withdraw from the U.S. Senate race in Maine after a woman who dated him said he drunkenly forced her to have sex despite her telling him to stop

6:32 PM on Wednesday, July 8

As Democrats scramble to contain a political disaster in Maine, the Republicans on the front lines of the GOP’s fight to hold the U.S. Senate majority are breathing a sigh of relief

5:46 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Canada's prime minister is visiting Saudi Arabia, marking the first trip by a Canadian leader to the kingdom in 26 years

5:41 PM on Wednesday, July 8

Actor Patrick Dempsey says he will not run for a Maine Senate seat, ending speculation about his potential candidacy

5:39 PM on Wednesday, July 8

President Donald Trump says he believes the ceasefire with Iran is over

5:33 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The second fatal shooting in four days by a federal crime-fighting task force in Memphis is under investigation

5:12 PM on Wednesday, July 8

4:17 PM on Wednesday, July 8

President Donald Trump has flown partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of making the full trip aboard the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted jet he arrived in

2:14 PM on Wednesday, July 8

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the message from a summit in Ankara, Turkey, is that “NATO delivers.”

1:46 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The Trumps administration has been ramping up pressure on state election officials to make sure noncitizens aren't registered to vote

1:30 PM on Wednesday, July 8

A federal judge has ruled that E

1:23 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a construction job Tuesday morning when he was killed

1:16 PM on Wednesday, July 8

The Maine Democratic Party has voted to hold a convention now that Graham Platner has announced he'll drop out of the U.S. Senate race

11:55 AM on Wednesday, July 8

Kentucky's governor has written an open letter to Mitch McConnell asking the Republican senator to disclose more about his condition

9:37 AM on Wednesday, July 8

A weeklong preliminary hearing for the man charged with killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk has paused for the day and will resume Thursday

1:56 AM on Wednesday, July 8

The U.S. has carried out another round of strikes on Iran hours after President Donald Trump said that recent Iranian attacks on ships in Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of the ceasefire

12:01 AM on Wednesday, July 8

Prosecutors in Utah played a video clip that provided a rare glimpse of Tyler Robinson after the defendant in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk first turned himself in

12:01 AM on Wednesday, July 8

Former Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan has been spared from prison for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waited in the hallway

10:56 PM on Tuesday, July 7

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced at a NATO summit in Turkey that the U.S. will allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot air defense systems

2:19 PM on Tuesday, July 7