Politics & Government News

4:05 PM on Thursday, August 21

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia

3:44 PM on Thursday, August 21

Federal inspectors will assume direct oversight of a Boar's Head deli meat plant when it reopens after an deadly listeria outbreak

3:39 PM on Thursday, August 21

Federal judge holds that former Trump lawyer Alina Habba has been unlawfully serving as US attorney in New Jersey

3:05 PM on Thursday, August 21

A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups is calling on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection in order to protect student protesters from government retaliation

2:57 PM on Thursday, August 21

Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with US visas for potential deportable violations

2:30 PM on Thursday, August 21

2:25 PM on Thursday, August 21

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis dispatched his top deputy to California to oversee the handover of a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida

1:39 PM on Thursday, August 21

Iowa’s state party officials say it was a mistake that the party’s 2024 nominating calendar forced them to ditch the five-decade, first-in-the-nation caucus where community members publicly signal their support for a candidate

12:38 PM on Thursday, August 21

A proposal to build a water-guzzling data center near Tucson, Arizona, led the city to put some regulations on water use

12:11 PM on Thursday, August 21

Julie Delpy and Suranne Jones found filming scenes as politicians terrifying for new Netflix thriller show “Hostage.”

11:23 AM on Thursday, August 21

A Republican congressman from Texas, Chip Roy, says he's running for state attorney general

10:51 AM on Thursday, August 21

An Israeli citizen detained in Lebanon has been returned home after more than a year, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office

10:09 AM on Thursday, August 21

A closely watched report says the number of people in the United States illegally surged to an all-time high of 14 million in 2023

9:49 AM on Thursday, August 21

James Dobson, a child psychologist who founded the conservative ministry Focus on the Family and was a politically influential campaigner against abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, has died at age 89

9:33 AM on Thursday, August 21

Both Wall Street and the White House will be paying close attention to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s high-profile speech Friday at the Fed’s annual economic symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

7:36 AM on Thursday, August 21

The death of a French streamer during a 298-hour broadcast has sparked controversy and a judicial investigation

6:09 AM on Wednesday, August 20

Texas’ House of Representatives is approving a new map that creates up to five new, winnable congressional seats for the GOP

8:00 PM on Tuesday, August 19

5:34 PM on Tuesday, August 19

An Alaska man might have walked away as the biggest winner of last week’s high stakes summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage

12:44 PM on Monday, August 18

Hurricane Erin has pounded the North Carolina coast with strong waves and gusty winds as it slowly moves out to sea