Politics & Government News

8:21 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Stewart McLaurin knew it was coming

7:05 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The White House pressed Navy officials to launch 2,000-pound live bombs instead of dummy explosives during a recent military demonstration for the service’s 250th anniversary celebration that President Donald Trump attended

7:03 PM on Tuesday, October 28

White House urged firing live bombs, not dummies, for celebration for US Navy that Trump attended, AP sources say

5:34 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Rumors of Venezuela freeing Colombian prisoners gave Diana Tique hope of reuniting with her brother

5:26 PM on Tuesday, October 28

North Korea says its test-firings of sea-to-surface cruise missiles were a success

5:16 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Opposition leaders in Cameroon Tuesday contested the results of the Oct. 12 presidential election after the country’s top court declared the world’s oldest leader Paul Biya winner

4:52 PM on Tuesday, October 28

MacKenzie Scott has donated $60 million to the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

4:49 PM on Tuesday, October 28

The Senate approved a resolution Tuesday evening that would nullify President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, including oil, coffee and orange juice, as Democrats test GOP senators’ support for Trump’s trade policy

4:17 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Two Florida college students and an advocacy group for retirees are asking a federal judge to let them intervene in a lawsuit to defend census methods used to protect privacy and fill in missing data

1:59 PM on Tuesday, October 28

Tanzanians will vote Wednesday 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

1:19 PM on Tuesday, October 28

A North Carolina man who told authorities he had killed his children and that his children's bodies were in the trunk of a vehicle at his home has been charged with four counts of murder

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

11:41 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

11:33 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ sweeping plan for overhauling the state’s aging prison system is moving forward with bipartisan support despite complaints from Republican lawmakers that their concerns were not being addressed

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

7:19 AM on Tuesday, October 28

Conservative voters in Northern California are alarmed that a ballot measure designed to diminish Republican representation could pass in November

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