Politics & Government News

8:23 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Some out-of-state National Guard to remain in DC though November at request of Trump administration, Ohio governor says

8:04 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was given some respite on Wednesday after a Supreme Court justice voted to acquit him from all charges in his alleged coup trial

7:00 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office says one of the first doctors in the U.S. accused of illegally providing care to transgender youth under GOP-led bans was found not to have broken the law

6:45 PM on Wednesday, September 10

President Donald Trump’s goal of appointing a majority of the Federal Reserve’s board of governors faced a setback Tuesday when a court blocked his unprecedented attempt to fire Lisa Cook

6:43 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk shooter wore dark clothing, fired from a roof on campus some distance away, Utah authorities say

6:34 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says 'political assassination' of Charlie Kirk is 'tragic day for our nation'

6:31 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Senate Republicans have barely defeated an effort by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein

5:25 PM on Wednesday, September 10

The fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at an event in Utah had particular resonance for public figures who have experienced political violence themselves

5:05 PM on Wednesday, September 10

3:49 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed

3:21 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk, a conservative youth activist and CEO of Turning Point USA, has been fatally shot while speaking at an event at Utah Valley University

3:01 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.”

1:00 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Three fired FBI officials have sued to get their jobs back, calling their terminations part of a “campaign of retribution” carried out by a director who caved to political pressure from the Trump administration

11:13 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Some National Guard troops from outside the District of Columbia will remain in the nation’s capital at least through the end of November at the request of the Trump administration

10:41 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to cancel a public land management rule that sought to put conservation on equal footing with industry

4:57 AM on Wednesday, September 10

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to seek sanctions and a partial trade suspension against Israel over the war in Gaza

3:34 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Protesters blocked roads and set fires in Paris and across France as part of a nationwide “Block Everything” campaign

12:09 AM on Wednesday, September 10

Soldiers in Nepal’s capital have ordered people to stay home after the military came out in force overnight to halt two days of deadly unrest that prompted the government’s collapse as protesters set buildings on fire

10:11 PM on Tuesday, September 9

South Korea said that a charter plane carrying South Korean workers will leave Atlanta, Georgia at Thursday noon

4:54 PM on Tuesday, September 9

After the detention of more than 300 South Korean workers in an immigration raid in Georgia, a charter plane has arrived in Atlanta to bring them home