Politics & Government News

3:48 PM on Friday, October 24

Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is pledging to embrace his Muslim identity amid growing attacks in the final days of the campaign

3:11 PM on Friday, October 24

A judge in New Mexico halted legal proceedings in a federal death penalty case because the U.S. government shutdown is impeding the defendant’s right to legal representation

3:07 PM on Friday, October 24

The U.S. government now plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia

3:07 PM on Friday, October 24

President Donald Trump is set to speak at a telephone rally late Friday on the eve of early voting in support of Republican candidate for New Jersey governor, Jack Ciattarelli

3:04 PM on Friday, October 24

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his family, and a government member over drug trade allegations

3:02 PM on Friday, October 24

US imposes sanctions on Colombia’s president and family over accusations of involvement in the global drug trade

2:58 PM on Friday, October 24

President Donald Trump’s barrage of tariffs has quickly strained the United States’ longstanding relationship with Canada over the last year

2:45 PM on Friday, October 24

Brazilian authorities say they have made progress in solving the housing shortage for attendees of the upcoming U.N. climate conference, while also defending a recent decision to allow exploratory drilling in the Amazon

2:14 PM on Friday, October 24

A federal judge is pausing his disqualification of Sigal Chattah as Nevada’s acting U.S. attorney while the Department of Justice appeals the decision

1:16 PM on Friday, October 24

President Donald Trump pulled out of trade talks with Canada Thursday night, furious over what he called a “fake’’ television ad from Ontario’s provincial government that quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs -- Trump’s favorite economic tool

11:37 AM on Friday, October 24

The ongoing government shutdown continues to disrupt flights and put pressure on air traffic controllers who are working without pay

10:10 AM on Friday, October 24

The leader of Canada’s most populous province says he’ll pull the anti-tariff ad that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to end trade talks with Canada

9:18 AM on Friday, October 24

Law enforcement officers have fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had been the site of protests against federal immigration agents

9:11 AM on Friday, October 24

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America in the latest escalation of military firepower to a region

8:57 AM on Friday, October 24

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has toured a U.S.-led coordination center in southern Israel

8:32 AM on Friday, October 24

President Donald Trump is going to Asia and will meet face to face with the leaders of Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and China

12:12 AM on Friday, October 24

The deployment of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., faces a challenge in a court in the nation’s capital

12:02 AM on Friday, October 24

Authorities say a massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant that killed 16 people began in an area where workers used kettles to produce a mixture of explosives, and it set off other explosives stored nearby

Friday, October 24

New York Attorney General Letitia James is scheduled for trial in January after pleading not guilty to federal charges accusing her of lying on mortgage papers to secure favorable loan terms in a case pushed by President Donald Trump

10:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he’s pulling the TV ad that caused President Donald Trump to say he was ending trade negotiations with Canada