Politics & Government News

3:46 PM on Friday, October 3

Speaker Johnson cancels House votes for next week as Republicans pressure Senate to accept funding bill and end shutdown

3:18 PM on Friday, October 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s overhauling the inspector general’s office

3:03 PM on Friday, October 3

Government funding legislation fails again in the Senate with little sign of progress on third day of shutdown

2:52 PM on Friday, October 3

Several Democratic state attorneys general say the Trump administration has backed away from requiring states to agree to cooperate with the president’s immigration agenda in order to access federal money for programs that help victims of crime

2:34 PM on Friday, October 3

More than 68 million people in the United States identify as ethnically Hispanic, making it one the nation’s fastest growing racial or ethnic groups

2:11 PM on Friday, October 3

A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict

2:02 PM on Friday, October 3

A court in Armenia has sentenced a prominent cleric to two years in prison

1:30 PM on Friday, October 3

1:12 PM on Friday, October 3

A lawsuit that claimed the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees had provided more than $1 billion that enabled Hamas’ deadly attack on Israel was dismissed this week by a federal judge in New York

1:08 PM on Friday, October 3

A new poll conducted just prior to the current government shutdown showed most Americans wanted Congress to extend tax credits that could expire at the end of the year

11:32 AM on Friday, October 3

Federal officials have confirmed Florida's approval for a $608 million reimbursement for building and running an immigration detention center in the Everglades

10:58 AM on Friday, October 3

From Wall Street trading floors to the Federal Reserve to economists sipping coffee in their home offices, the first Friday morning of the month typically brings a quiet hush around 8:30 a.m. eastern, as everyone awaits the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report

9:49 AM on Friday, October 3

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is to hold face-to-face talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House

9:36 AM on Friday, October 3

The Supreme Court says it'll take up its latest gun rights case and consider striking down strict regulations on where people can carry firearms in Hawaii

8:14 AM on Friday, October 3

Czechs are voting in a two-day general election that could shift the country's stance on Ukraine

7:57 AM on Friday, October 3

White House budget director Russ Vought says the Trump administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown

7:04 AM on Friday, October 3

Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York City’s mayoral race has brought him national prominence and a surge of anti-Muslim vitriol, including from elected officials and prominent conservatives

Friday, October 3

President Donald Trump is now openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign

12:08 AM on Thursday, October 2

Karen Attiah, a former opinion columnist at The Washington Post, says she was fired after social media posts expressing concerns about gun violence and rhetoric against Black women

2:30 PM on Wednesday, October 1

President Donald Trump and other high-ranking Republicans claim Democrats forced the government shutdown fight because they want to give free health care to immigrants in the U.S. illegally