Politics & Government News

4:18 PM on Friday, September 12

The Congressional Budget Office has released new economic projections, indicating that unemployment, inflation and overall growth will worsen in 2025 before improving over the next year

3:46 PM on Friday, September 12

A lawsuit says some West Africans who were deported to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a U.S. military plane on which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water

3:42 PM on Friday, September 12

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict

3:38 PM on Friday, September 12

A judge has rejected an attempt by Georgia and a local development agency to make residents pay legal fees after they unsuccessfully sued to block the Rivian electric vehicle plant

3:19 PM on Friday, September 12

A judge has released a heavily redacted document used to justify a recent search of the Maryland home of John Bolton

3:11 PM on Friday, September 12

Family members of the young Utah man accused of shooting Charlie Kirk told authorities he had recently become more political and believed Kirk was spreading hate

3:01 PM on Friday, September 12

Google launched a behind-the-scenes campaign against an online privacy bill before the California legislature

3:01 PM on Friday, September 12

The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions

2:42 PM on Friday, September 12

The Missouri Senate has passed a plan backed by President Donald Trump that could help Republicans win an additional U.S. House seat

2:19 PM on Friday, September 12

The Department of Homeland Security says an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to evade arrest in a Chicago suburb by driving his car at officers and dragging one of them

11:41 AM on Friday, September 12

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is making an impassioned plea for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and division

9:24 AM on Friday, September 12

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Qatar’s prime minister Friday before he visits Israel this weekend

9:05 AM on Friday, September 12

The head of the U.S. military's Central Command has met with Syria's interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa in Damascus, a rare meeting between the new Syrian leader and a top U.S. military officer

8:53 AM on Friday, September 12

President Donald Trump says he’ll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor

8:30 AM on Friday, September 12

President Donald Trump says he'll send the National Guard to Memphis, Tennessee, to address crime concerns there

8:20 AM on Friday, September 12

The man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk was being held without bail Friday at the Utah County jail

2:00 AM on Friday, September 12

The man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk had expressed opposition to the conservative activist’s viewpoints and indicated that he was responsible for the shooting

12:09 AM on Friday, September 12

The governor of Utah struggled to find the right words to describe the question so many have been asking: What is happening in America

9:54 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Authorities have arrested a 22-year-old Utah man in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk

1:27 PM on Thursday, September 4

Missouri has become the third state to embrace a mid-decade redesign of its U.S. House districts in a quest for partisan advantage