Politics & Government News

2:20 PM on Friday, January 30

President Donald Trump has announced an IndyCar race will be held through the streets of Washington as part of America's 250th birthday celebrations

1:59 PM on Friday, January 30

U.S. allies and partners in the Middle East again are urging restraint from both the United States and Iran as the Trump administration warns of a possible strike and builds up its military presence in the region

1:30 PM on Friday, January 30

Lebanon’s cabinet has approved an agreement to transfer Syrian prisoners back to Syria

1:26 PM on Friday, January 30

Lydia Romero struggles to locate her husband, Julio César Peña, who was detained by immigration agents in California

1:02 PM on Friday, January 30

Massive power outages in Cuba mean that many people are unaware that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to the Caribbean island

12:35 PM on Friday, January 30

Satellite images reveal activity at two Iranian nuclear sites, suggesting that Tehran may be obscuring its efforts to salvage any materials remaining there

12:01 PM on Friday, January 30

The Justice Department has released over 3 million pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

11:59 AM on Friday, January 30

Cubans are hustling to become more self-sufficient as the U.S. government tightens its economic noose over the communist-run island in a move experts say is meant to force a popular uprising and usher in a new government

11:09 AM on Friday, January 30

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers

11:07 AM on Friday, January 30

The Justice Department says it's releasing 3 million pages of documents in the latest Jeffrey Epstein disclosure, along with 2,000 videos and 180,000 images

10:37 AM on Friday, January 30

Kevin Warsh has sought the job of Federal Reserve chair, off and on, since President Donald Trump first considered him for the position nearly a decade ago

9:21 AM on Friday, January 30

California Governor Gavin Newsom is demanding a civil rights investigation into Dr. Mehmet Oz, saying he discriminated against Armenians in a video about hospice fraud in Los Angeles

9:17 AM on Friday, January 30

President Donald Trump says he’ll tap former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Jerome Powell in May

8:56 AM on Friday, January 30

Protesters across the U.S. are calling for a nationwide strike on Friday to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis

8:02 AM on Friday, January 30

The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights probe into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed Saturday by Border Patrol officers, according to federal officials

7:36 AM on Friday, January 30

South Africa has declared Israel’s deputy ambassador persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours

6:52 AM on Friday, January 30

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reserve could bring about sweeping changes at a central bank that dominates the global economy and markets like no other

12:31 AM on Friday, January 30

The bipartisan funding deal President Donald Trump struck with Democrats to prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend appears back on track

Friday, January 30

Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda

8:30 AM on Wednesday, January 28