Politics & Government News

7:36 AM on Saturday, October 11

Before white settlers came to Onondaga Lake and the city of Syracuse grew along its shore, it was a sacred place for the Onondaga Nation

7:24 AM on Saturday, October 11

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

12:08 AM on Saturday, October 11

Venezuelans in the U.S. are welcoming the news that opposition leader leader Maria Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Price

8:16 PM on Friday, October 10

New York Attorney General Letitia James has battled big tech, opioid manufacturers and the National Rifle Association

8:10 PM on Friday, October 10

8:04 PM on Friday, October 10

The Trump administration has provided a $300 million infusion to a food aid program for low-income mothers and children, easing concerns about funding during the government shutdown

7:45 PM on Friday, October 10

White House budget office says in court that it could fire over 4,000 federal employees during shutdown

6:58 PM on Friday, October 10

Authorities report that heavy rains in central and southeastern Mexico have caused flooding, leading to at least 28 deaths

6:53 PM on Friday, October 10

5:41 PM on Friday, October 10

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building for hours before being released

5:20 PM on Friday, October 10

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military is moving forward with plans to build a dedicated facility in Idaho to train pilots from Qatar, an important U.S. ally in the Middle East

12:42 PM on Friday, October 10

Mass firings of federal workers have begun

11:06 AM on Friday, October 10

President Donald Trump says he hasn't canceled a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping planned for late October in South Korea after earlier expressing anger about export controls China has placed on rare earths

10:41 AM on Friday, October 10

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year

8:26 AM on Friday, October 10

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues

6:36 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are starting to walk north to return to their homes after the Israeli military said the ceasefire agreement with Hamas came into effect at noon local time and that troops were withdrawing to the agreed-upon deployment lines

5:31 AM on Friday, October 10

Tens of thousands of Palestinians headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza Strip as a U.S.-brokered ceasefire came into effect on Friday

5:17 AM on Friday, October 10

The White House is responding bitterly to President Donald Trump being passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize despite efforts from Republicans and world leaders

12:06 AM on Friday, October 10

President Donald Trump is in "exceptional health," according to his physician, who evaluated him Friday

8:28 PM on Thursday, October 9

The United States has clashed with Venezuela and its allies at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council