Politics & Government News

11:02 PM on Wednesday, September 17

In an excerpt of former Vice President Kamala Harris's new book, she says she would have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year but America wasn’t ready for the pairing

9:39 PM on Wednesday, September 17

9:03 PM on Wednesday, September 17

President Donald Trump says he plans to designate antifa as a “major terrorist organization.”

7:57 PM on Wednesday, September 17

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Alabama’s largest county to redraw county commission lines

7:55 PM on Wednesday, September 17

Two North Carolina brothers have testified about a box left with them by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year

7:42 PM on Wednesday, September 17

It’s another blow to Rudy Giuliani’s withered wallet: A judge has ordered the former New York City mayor to pay $1.36 million in legal fees he racked up during investigations into his efforts to overturn President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss

7:05 PM on Wednesday, September 17

The House declined late Wednesday to punish one of its own over commentary in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination

7:02 PM on Wednesday, September 17

ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing

6:18 PM on Wednesday, September 17

The Washington Commanders’ plan to return to the site of their former home at RFK Stadium has cleared its final hurdle with the local legislature

6:00 PM on Wednesday, September 17

An Oklahoma County prosecutor has declined to file criminal charges after two board members said they saw images of naked women on a television in the office of state School Superintendent Ryan Walters

5:43 PM on Wednesday, September 17

During his first term, President Donald Trump enacted immigration policies aimed at a group normally safe from scrutiny: immigrant service members

5:29 PM on Wednesday, September 17

President Donald Trump ran on a platform of detaining and deporting criminal immigrants – those he has called terrorists, drug dealers and gang members

4:44 PM on Wednesday, September 17

FBI Director Kash Patel has defended the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as he returned to Capitol Hill for a second day to face intense questioning from Democrats over his promises of transparency surrounding the convicted wealthy financier’s case

4:02 PM on Wednesday, September 17

Republican leaders in the House and Senate are rejecting Democratic demands for health care subsidies in a bill to avoid a government shutdown

7:37 AM on Wednesday, September 17

European officials have warned Iran that it needs to take specific actions to avoid the return of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program

5:38 AM on Wednesday, September 17

President Donald Trump is relishing the glow of a British royal spectacle during his visit to Windsor Castle

1:22 AM on Wednesday, September 17

A Utah sheriff says the 22-year-old man charged with killing with Charlie Kirk was afraid of being shot by police and agreed to surrender as long as it was done peacefully

12:09 AM on Wednesday, September 17

Russia moved quickly to exploit conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death at a Utah college, with groups linked to the Kremlin spreading false and misleading claims that experts say are designed to incite violence

6:11 PM on Tuesday, September 16

The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate by a quarter-point Wednesday and projected it would do so twice more this year as concern grows at the central bank about the health of the nation’s labor market

4:30 PM on Friday, September 12

Prosecutors say the 22-year-old man accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk during an event at Utah Valley University has been charged with capital murder