Politics & Government News

6:53 PM on Thursday, February 26

Canada’s minister for U.S. trade says the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement could be subject to annual review and that uncertainty could be the objective of the Trump administration

6:51 PM on Thursday, February 26

Cuba’s deputy foreign minister says the island’s government is communicating with American officials following the fatal shooting of a U.S. boat in Cuban waters

6:47 PM on Thursday, February 26

Election-year legislation to impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements on voting appears stalled in the Senate, for now, despite President Donald Trump’s call in his State of the Union speech that Republicans in Congress pass the bill “before anything else.”

5:54 PM on Thursday, February 26

An estimated 32.6 million people have watched President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on television

5:48 PM on Thursday, February 26

The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it’s misleading for members of the House to say their package of aviation safety reforms would address the recommendations that her agency made in January to prevent another midair collision like the one last year near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people

5:14 PM on Thursday, February 26

Word from the Cuban government of a deadly encounter between its troops and a boat carrying armed expatriates is casting a spotlight on Cubans living in the U.S. who still harbor aspirations of a counter-revolution 67 years after a guerrilla uprising ushered in communism

5:10 PM on Thursday, February 26

A Tennessee law that threatens local officials with felony charges and possible imprisonment if they vote for so-called “sanctuary policies” on immigration has been ruled unconstitutional

4:29 PM on Thursday, February 26

President Donald Trump has met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House to talk about big federal housing investments

2:34 PM on Thursday, February 26

Gov. Tim Walz has denounced the Trump administration’s latest threat to withhold federal funds from Minnesota as another step in a “retribution” campaign

2:32 PM on Thursday, February 26

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Pentagon’s demands to allow wider use of its technology

2:05 PM on Thursday, February 26

The United States women’s hockey team has a date with Flavor Flav in Las Vegas in July to celebrate its gold medal victory from the Milan Cortina Olympics

1:14 PM on Thursday, February 26

The governing board of the Los Angeles Unified School District will meet in a closed session a day after the FBI served search warrants at the district’s headquarters and the home of its superintendent

12:36 PM on Thursday, February 26

Federal immigration agents have detained a Columbia University student in her campus apartment

11:38 AM on Thursday, February 26

Pakistan has carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces, Afghanistan’s government spokesperson says

8:21 AM on Thursday, February 26

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told U.S. House lawmakers that she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s or Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes at the start of two days of depositions that will also include former President Bill Clinton

7:10 AM on Thursday, February 26

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told members of Congress she had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and didn't recall ever meeting him

12:06 AM on Thursday, February 26

A representative of the U_S_ Attorney’s office has claimed in federal court in Tennessee that the decision to charge Kilmar Abrego-Garcia with human smuggling was his alone while a Homeland Security agent has testified that the case against Abrego Garcia “just kept getting stronger.”

12:02 AM on Thursday, February 26

A new AP-NORC poll finds that as the U.S. and Iran head into their next round of nuclear talks in Geneva, many U.S. adults continue to view Iran’s nuclear program as a threat

12:01 AM on Thursday, February 26

Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program but walked away without a deal

4:14 PM on Wednesday, February 25

Cuba says the 10 passengers on a boat that opened fire on its soldiers were armed Cubans living in the U.S. who were trying to infiltrate the island and unleash terrorism