Politics & Government News

6:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Florida's chief financial officer has issued subpoenas to Orange County workers, saying they did not fully cooperate with the state's DOGE audit

6:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act

6:02 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A teenager has been sentenced to seven years in a youth rehabilitation facility for shooting Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay

5:22 PM on Wednesday, August 27

An Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith

5:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Demonstrators have hurled rocks at a convoy carrying Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Mieli as his campaign caravan cut through Buenos Aires province, the cradle of the country’s left-leaning opposition movement

5:06 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The United Nations agency that coordinates international mail deliveries says it's working to get small parcels dispatched to the United States again by resolving confusion over the pending elimination of a U.S. tariff exemption

5:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Rural hospitals are bracing for financial losses due to President Trump's tax and spending cut bill

4:33 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Indiana's legislative leaders met privately with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss redistricting, according to an Indiana House spokesperson

4:24 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board

4:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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3:45 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Cracker Barrel hired a new CEO in 2023 to innovate and appeal to more customers

2:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A South African politician accused by the Trump administration of being at the forefront of an anti-white movement has been found guilty of hate speech for race-fueled comments he made in 2022

1:54 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A truck driver's deadly U-turn on a Florida highway has sparked national debate over immigration, trucking safety, and federal funding

1:22 PM on Wednesday, August 27

1:07 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s next presidential primary calendar

12:49 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a new “Steel Dome” integrated air defense system is a “watershed moment” for the country's defense needs

12:46 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Darfur’s El-Fasher faces a “devastating tragedy” as the city’s remaining population of about 260,000 people, half of them children, are besieged by the Rapid Support Forces, the U.N.’s children’s arm has warned