Politics & Government News

7:20 PM on Monday, August 17

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva says oil drilling in northern coastal regions could be a "passport to the country’s future."

6:20 PM on Monday, August 17

Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, said it suspended its livestreams in Brazil

5:36 PM on Monday, August 17

New voting rules in New Hampshire are changing how students and residents prove their identity

5:34 PM on Monday, August 17

Nevada cattle ranchers are battling the federal government over grazing rights on public lands

5:31 PM on Monday, August 17

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct

5:27 PM on Monday, August 17

A teenage lifeguard and the boy he rescued off the coast of California have been reunited as President Donald Trump honored both as heroes

4:06 PM on Monday, August 17

Civil rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Texas law requiring the state’s public schools to display the Ten Commandments

2:25 PM on Monday, August 17

The Justice Department has finalized a rule that will pave the way for people who’ve been barred from owning firearms because of criminal convictions to apply to have their gun rights reinstated

2:20 PM on Monday, August 17

The Trump administration says it is temporarily pausing construction of a controversial border construction project in the Big Bend National Park while the head of the agency tasked with building the wall visits Texas to do an “on-the-ground evaluation.”

12:23 PM on Monday, August 17

12:18 PM on Monday, August 17

The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog is reviewing a controversial DEA tactic in which agents permitted fentanyl to reach the streets to build cases against traffickers

9:01 AM on Monday, August 17

Florida voters will select nominees Tuesday to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and to complete the remainder of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s unexpired U.S. Senate term

9:00 AM on Monday, August 17

The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents

8:55 AM on Monday, August 17

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has reportedly exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump's chief of staff

7:49 AM on Monday, August 17

President Donald Trump has downplayed reports about conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln to reporters in the Oval Office

5:37 AM on Monday, August 17

Iran says it's working to finalize a joint statement with Oman on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz

4:48 AM on Monday, August 17

A marathon meeting between U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left the fate of the Gaza ceasefire unclear

10:36 PM on Sunday, August 16

President Donald Trump says vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial

12:06 AM on Friday, August 14

President Donald Trump has highlighted his record on crime and safety during a visit to New York, pivoting to one of his strongest issues as he looks to boost Republicans in battleground races ahead of the November midterms

1:29 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace