Politics & Government News

3:45 PM on Wednesday, September 24

President Donald Trump excoriated European leaders about their efforts to slow irregular migration, claiming they have done little to prevent an influx of outsiders that has transformed the continent

3:16 PM on Wednesday, September 24

California counties are reporting decreases in homelessness, in part because the state and federal government has invested in helping people find housing

3:06 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche has ordered a senior U.S. Justice Department official to drop an inquiry into a retired FBI agent’s involvement in a defamation lawsuit involving Alex Jones’ conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

2:59 PM on Wednesday, September 24

2:33 PM on Wednesday, September 24

A family of three, including a small child, have become the first people to arrive in the U.K. from France under a new “one in, one out” exchange policy in which Britain returns migrants who enter the country without authorization and France sends vetted asylum-seekers

2:15 PM on Wednesday, September 24

Voters in Seychelles are facing key issues like a drug crisis, environmental challenges, and sovereignty questions as they head to the polls

2:06 PM on Wednesday, September 24

An eight-member panel charged with enforcing Nevada's ethics laws has found that Gov. Joe Lombardo did not purposely violate ethics laws in using pictures of him wearing his Clark County sheriff's uniform during his first campaign for office

12:49 PM on Wednesday, September 24

During his speech before the U.N. General Assembly, President Donald Trump promoted a second-term talking point about his efforts to settle multiple conflicts around the world

12:45 PM on Wednesday, September 24

A New York judge warns Justice Department officials they could face sanctions for public comments about Luigi Mangione's prosecution

12:42 PM on Wednesday, September 24

The South Dakota Legislature voted in special session Tuesday to approve a new state prison to replace an overcrowded 140-year-old facility in Sioux Falls

11:29 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Guinea's opposition has denounced alleged irregularities in a constitutional referendum

11:13 AM on Wednesday, September 24

YouTube will offer creators a way to rejoin the streaming platform if they were banned for violating COVID-19 and election misinformation policies that are no longer in effect

11:02 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Lawmakers and activists are urging U.S. tech firms to stop selling surveillance equipment to Chinese police

9:19 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warns that Russia is spending heavily to influence an upcoming parliamentary election

8:36 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the stage at the U_N_ to blast Israeli and U_S_ attacks in June as inflicting “a grievous blow upon international trust and the very prospect of peace in the region.”

7:03 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Recent polling shows President Donald Trump’s second-term strengths look different from his first

2:16 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Denmark’s prime minister has given an emotional apology to Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women who were given invasive contraception by the Danish health authorities against their will over decades

12:02 AM on Wednesday, September 24

Veterans like Julio Torres are often promised that military service will be a fast-track to U.S. citizenship for themselves and their family members

12:02 AM on Wednesday, September 24

A debate has been sparked among Black pastors who are trying to square a heroic view of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist who was gunned down in Utah this month, with the insulting statements about people of color that were key to his political activism

1:23 PM on Tuesday, September 23

A former Minnesota state senator has been sentenced to six months for breaking into her estranged stepmother’s house