Politics & Government News

6:43 PM on Friday, October 10

AstraZeneca has agreed to lower prescription drug costs for Medicaid under a deal with the Trump administration

6:34 PM on Friday, October 10

Katie Porter is fighting back

5:20 PM on Friday, October 10

A North Carolina state legislator accused of sex-related crimes involving a 15-year-old has received a bond just over $1 million

5:07 PM on Friday, October 10

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot put conditions on grants that fund efforts to combat domestic violence or provide access to abortion resources

4:59 PM on Friday, October 10

Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner, as trade war reignites

4:46 PM on Friday, October 10

The former superintendent of Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska retired late last year, but the board said he would be staying on in an as-needed advising capacity to the new superintendent through June

4:13 PM on Friday, October 10

France's Macron reappoints recently resigned Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister to try again to form a government

3:37 PM on Friday, October 10

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday on mortgage fraud charges

3:14 PM on Friday, October 10

The Oregon Health Authority has notified state prisons and other officials that it no longer intends to implement a Medicaid initiative that would have provided targeted health care services to people in the 90 days before they were to leave jail or prison

1:34 PM on Friday, October 10

Bill Pulte has become a significant player in the Trump administration

1:01 PM on Friday, October 10

Peruvians woke up to their seventh president in less than a decade Friday

12:04 PM on Friday, October 10

National Guard troops have started patrolling in Memphis, Tennessee

11:24 AM on Friday, October 10

MIT's president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding

10:32 AM on Friday, October 10

Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell has sent a letter to Big Ten presidents, warning that a move into private equity could have negative consequences, including impacting the schools’ tax-exempt status

9:48 AM on Friday, October 10

María Corina Machado, a key figure in Venezuela's opposition, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

7:17 AM on Friday, October 10

A ceasefire has taken effect in Gaza under a breakthrough deal

2:47 AM on Friday, October 10

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday re-appointed Sebastien Lecornu as prime minister, just days after his resignation, to try again to form a government in a bid to end the country’s political deadlock

1:12 AM on Friday, October 10

National Guard troops are patrolling in Memphis for the first time, as part of President Donald Trump’s federal task force

1:01 AM on Friday, October 10

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize

12:04 AM on Friday, October 10

The Trump administration is pushing again to deport a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador