Politics & Government News

4:37 PM on Thursday, June 18

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth has urged the Federal Aviation Administration to reject pressure from President Donald Trump to approve a 250-foot triumphal arch, citing concerns over aviation safety

4:08 PM on Thursday, June 18

A West Texas organization has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming that plans to install border barriers along the Rio Grande could cause flooding in the Big Bend area

4:04 PM on Thursday, June 18

A South Dakota man whose sentence of life in prison was commuted by former Gov. Kristi Noem is now implicated in the death of his 14-year-old niece

4:01 PM on Thursday, June 18

President Donald Trump believes that winning a second term in 2024 instead of 2020 has allowed him to return to the White House even more emboldened

3:56 PM on Thursday, June 18

Cuba’s Communist Party has approved an emergency economic package featuring unprecedented free-market measures to open up the struggling island’s economy

3:53 PM on Thursday, June 18

Brazil’s Federal Police have executed search and seizure warrants targeting a high-ranking senator and ally of President Lula as part of a fraud and graft probe

3:47 PM on Thursday, June 18

The Department of Education has announced a reduction in interest rates for federal student loans, describing it as part of a plan to make higher education more affordable

3:20 PM on Thursday, June 18

Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are voicing strong reservations —- and some outright condemnation — of the Trump administration’s agreement to end the fighting in Iran

3:00 PM on Thursday, June 18

More than $350 million from President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” has been quietly directed to White House security

1:50 PM on Thursday, June 18

Janeese Lewis George has won Washington, D.C.'s Democratic primary for mayor, setting up a potential clash with the Trump administration over the city’s limited autonomy

1:43 PM on Thursday, June 18

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes is dismissing a criminal case that alleged President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others tried to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss in the state

12:25 PM on Thursday, June 18

A federal appeals court panel says the Trump administration can replace a slavery exhibit at George Washington’s home in Philadelphia

10:34 AM on Thursday, June 18

The U.S. lifted its blockade of Iran, and oil tankers began freely moving through the Strait of Hormuz after months of being unable to use the critical channel

10:27 AM on Thursday, June 18

Federal regulators have ordered regional grid operators to help large energy users connect more quickly to the nation’s inefficient and aging electric transmission system

9:08 AM on Thursday, June 18

The Supreme Court has ruled against a broad federal ban on gun ownership by marijuana users

8:06 AM on Thursday, June 18

7:23 AM on Thursday, June 18

Iran will invite the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog to inspect its nuclear sites and begin identifying the locations of Tehran’s enriched material, President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff told U.S. lawmakers in a private briefing Thursday, according to two people familiar with the call

7:03 AM on Thursday, June 18

A bipartisan bill top lawmakers and athletic leaders have described as the best chance to stabilize college sports has cleared a major hurdle in the Senate

11:07 PM on Wednesday, June 17

Former President Barack Obama formally opened his presidential center in Chicago on Thursday with a call to defend democracy

11:01 PM on Wednesday, June 17

Vice President JD Vance has embraced the role of being the chief defender of the agreement he and President Donald Trump signed with Iran over the weekend