Politics & Government News

1:59 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Tanzanians will on Wednesday vote in an election that pits incumbent leader Samia Suluhu Hassan against opposition candidates from smaller parties after her main rivals were barred from running

1:51 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal judge in San Francisco has indefinitely blocked the Trump administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown

1:47 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Federal judge indefinitely bars Trump administration from firing federal workers during the government shutdown

1:30 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Vice President Vance says he believes US military will be paid Friday despite the shutdown, but does not specify how

1:30 PM on Tuesday, October 28

12:52 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from pulling sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities

12:21 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A new lawsuit by Democratic state officials seeks to uncork emergency money to help tens of millions of Americans keep buying food for their families after federal SNAP funding is expected run dry Saturday due to the U.S. government shutdown

11:51 AM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal judge in Tennessee has warned of possible sanctions against top Trump administration officials if they continue to make inflammatory statements about Kilmar Abrego Garcia that could prejudice his coming trial

11:51 AM on Tuesday, October 28

11:41 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Air traffic controllers are missing another paycheck due to the ongoing government shutdown, raising concerns about financial stress affecting their work

11:19 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders immediate 'powerful' strikes in Gaza

8:51 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the U.S. military carried out strikes in the eastern Pacific Ocean against four boats accused of carrying drugs, killing 14 and leaving one survivor

8:44 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Russian lawmakers have endorsed a bill mandating year-round military conscription, rather than just in the spring and fall, as authorities seek to fill the ranks as fighting in Ukraine grinds through a fourth year

8:01 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Maine and Texas are the latest states where Republicans are pushing ballot initiatives targeting noncitizen voting, which is rare

7:28 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall on Jamaica as the strongest storm to hit the Caribbean island in the 174 years since records began

6:57 AM on Tuesday, October 28

A federal agent had a daring plan: persuade Nicolas Maduro's chief pilot to surreptitiously divert the Venezuelan president’s plane to a place where U.S. authorities could nab the strongman

4:07 AM on Tuesday, October 28

House Republicans have released a long-promised report on former President Joe Biden's use of the autopen and the alleged cover-up of his mental state while in office

11:03 PM on Monday, October 27

A federal judge has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area

11:02 PM on Monday, October 27

Vice President JD Vance says that he believes U.S. military members will be paid at the end of the week as the Trump administration reconfigures funding in the second-longest government shutdown

9:46 PM on Monday, October 27

U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis has ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet with her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area