Politics & Government News

1:50 AM on Saturday, August 23

Texas Legislature gives final approval to redrawn congressional map favoring GOP, sends to governor

12:01 AM on Saturday, August 23

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign

9:32 PM on Friday, August 22

A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts

9:26 PM on Friday, August 22

Judge rules Trump cannot deny funding to Los Angeles, Chicago and 32 other cities and counties over ‘sanctuary’ policies

8:21 PM on Friday, August 22

The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional

6:51 PM on Friday, August 22

California's long-delayed high-speed rail project is slated to be operating in the Central Valley by 2032, according to a report released Friday by the High Speed Rail Authority

6:41 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump was quick to declare “TOTAL VICTORY” after a New York appeals court threw out a civil fraud penalty that stood to cost him more than a half-billion dollars

3:26 PM on Friday, August 22

Florida cities are now facing deadlines to remove rainbow crosswalks celebrating LGBTQ pride

3:24 PM on Friday, August 22

President Donald Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job

3:19 PM on Friday, August 22

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump

3:12 PM on Friday, August 22

Leaders from South America's Amazon nations have gathered in Colombia to agree on a joint plan to protect the rainforest

2:56 PM on Friday, August 22

Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend repeatedly denied to the Justice Department witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump

1:48 PM on Friday, August 22

A federal judge has halted further expansion of the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida Everglades

9:19 AM on Friday, August 22

The Texas Senate has given final approval to a new, Republican-leaning congressional voting map, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature

8:13 AM on Friday, August 22

The Justice Department has released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case

7:38 AM on Friday, August 22

The FBI has searched the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information

2:37 AM on Friday, August 22

Iran's foreign minister has spoken with his French, German, and British counterparts, trying to stop the reimposition of U.N. sanctions over Tehran's nuclear program

12:23 AM on Friday, August 22

A Florida conservative who has been a Donald Trump cheerleader dating back to the president’s days as a reality TV star is now the Republican National Committee chairman

12:12 AM on Friday, August 22

The Alaska State Medical Board has approved preliminary language that could result in disciplinary action against medical professionals who provide gender-affirming care for transgender minors

3:47 PM on Tuesday, August 19