Politics & Government News

1:29 PM on Monday, October 6

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans

1:19 PM on Monday, October 6

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is warning lawmakers not to fall for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to divide Europe and wants them to work together for the bloc’s 450 million citizens

12:55 PM on Monday, October 6

Palestinians in Gaza are anxiously following indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas officials in Egypt

12:52 PM on Monday, October 6

Maine's state auditor and former secretary of state, Matt Dunlap, has announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jared Golden in the midterm primary

12:51 PM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump is considering admitting far fewer refugee into the U.S. this year – as few as 7,500, and mostly white Afrikaners

12:01 PM on Monday, October 6

U.S. government lawyers say detainees at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center, known as "Alligator Alcatraz," likely include people who have never been in removal proceedings

12:00 PM on Monday, October 6

Venezuela has warned of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives

12:00 PM on Monday, October 6

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11:40 AM on Monday, October 6

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to lift the 40% tariff on Brazilian imports

11:38 AM on Monday, October 6

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Is it legal to fire furloughed federal workers during a shutdown

11:28 AM on Monday, October 6

President Donald Trump has tapped a career government attorney as the next independent watchdog of the Justice Department

9:32 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned ex-girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein

6:56 AM on Monday, October 6

An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement

6:23 AM on Monday, October 6

Republican congressman Wesley Hunt is running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, defying Senate GOP leadership and adding a new element to an already contentious primary campaign

5:57 AM on Monday, October 6

A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini

4:02 AM on Monday, October 6

France's new prime minister has resigned just a day after naming his government and following less than a month in office

3:46 PM on Sunday, October 5

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city

8:35 PM on Saturday, October 4

12:04 AM on Saturday, October 4

Bad Bunny kicked off the 51st season of “Saturday Night Live” with a few timely jokes about his next high-profile gig: the Super Bowl