Politics & Government News

6:19 PM on Thursday, February 19

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed legislation that will restrict the state’s ability to set new environmental regulations

5:18 PM on Thursday, February 19

Mexico is sending major food aid to Cuba as the island struggles with fuel shortages and widespread blackouts

4:56 PM on Thursday, February 19

The Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional

4:40 PM on Thursday, February 19

Virginia judge temporarily blocks Democrats' work on redistricting referendum in their bid to flip 4 congressional seats

4:29 PM on Thursday, February 19

Republicans are looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the boundaries of the only red congressional seat in New York City from being redrawn

4:18 PM on Thursday, February 19

An ambitious program to provide free universal child care to working families in New Mexico is being enshrined into law

4:10 PM on Thursday, February 19

FIFA says it'll pay to build a new $50 million national soccer stadium in war-ravaged Gaza, where two years of fighting between Hamas and Israel have left housing, electricity and basic infrastructure severely damaged

3:40 PM on Thursday, February 19

2:49 PM on Thursday, February 19

The longest-serving Assembly speaker in Wisconsin history, who acted as a block on the battleground state’s Democratic governor and also drew the ire of President Donald Trump, isn't running again

2:19 PM on Thursday, February 19

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address

2:12 PM on Thursday, February 19

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will deliver Democratic response to Trump's State of the Union address

1:44 PM on Thursday, February 19

The United Nations says the United States has paid about $160 million of the nearly $4 billion it owes, and President Donald Trump is promising more money to the financially strapped world organization

12:49 PM on Thursday, February 19

A federal judge has accused the Trump administration of terrorizing immigrants and recklessly violating the law in its efforts to deport millions of people living in the country illegally

12:38 PM on Thursday, February 19

Federal workers are restoring an exhibit on the people once enslaved by President George Washington in Philadelphia despite an ongoing legal fight between the city and the Trump administration

12:04 PM on Thursday, February 19

Iranians are still reeling with shock, grief and fear after Iran's rulers unleashed the deadliest crackdown ever seen in the Islamic Republic last month

11:47 AM on Thursday, February 19

The U.S. federal agency that enforces workplace civil rights is suing a regional Coca-Cola bottler for sex discrimination, alleging the company discriminated against male employees by only inviting women to a company-sponsored networking event

10:59 AM on Thursday, February 19

Women in Wisconsin will soon be eligible to receive expanded Medicaid coverage for up to a year after giving birth following passage of a measure by the Wisconsin Assembly

12:08 AM on Thursday, February 19

The federal prosecutor’s office in Minnesota has been gutted by a wave of career officials resigning or retiring over objections to Trump administration directives

12:03 AM on Thursday, February 19

President Donald Trump has announced at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package

11:39 AM on Wednesday, February 18

The first meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace on Thursday was an early test of whether one of his marquee foreign policy initiatives can gain broad support and advance the shaky ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip