Politics & Government News

5:06 PM on Thursday, September 4

Argentina’s senate has dealt a blow to President Javier Milei’s libertarian agenda overriding his veto on raising disability benefits

4:58 PM on Thursday, September 4

4:14 PM on Thursday, September 4

The U.S. Justice Department is ramping up efforts to target human smuggling operations exploiting America’s northern border, citing growing concerns about sophisticated criminal networks transporting migrants for profit, expanding their focus beyond the southern border

3:54 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court Thursday to let the president fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a string of emergency petitions over the president’s removal power

3:45 PM on Thursday, September 4

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing

3:34 PM on Thursday, September 4

3:26 PM on Thursday, September 4

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has not made his full schedule available all year

2:20 PM on Thursday, September 4

A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital

1:59 PM on Thursday, September 4

New York’s attorney general is moving to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Donald Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty

1:59 PM on Thursday, September 4

Justice Department probes mortgage fraud claims against Lisa Cook as Trump moves to erode Fed independence: AP source

1:47 PM on Thursday, September 4

Florida is set to become the first state in the nation to remove vaccine mandates

1:20 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas as part of an investigation into mortgage fraud allegations against Lisa Cook, who is fighting a Trump administration effort to remove her from her role as a Federal Reserve governor

1:00 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration must release billions of dollars in foreign aid approved by Congress, including money that President Donald Trump said last week he won't spend

12:49 PM on Thursday, September 4

Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university’s response to campus protests

11:01 AM on Thursday, September 4

Stephen Miran, President Donald Trump’s pick to join the Federal Reserve Board, says he'd remain a White House employee even if the Senate confirms him to fill an unexpired term at the central bank

9:57 AM on Thursday, September 4

Rhode Island, Connecticut and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states are suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project

9:43 AM on Thursday, September 4

President Donald Trump says the country would be on “the brink of economic catastrophe” without the import taxes he's imposed on U.S. rivals and allies alike

8:25 AM on Thursday, September 4

A new paper from Vanderbilt University suggests Americans could save about $100 billion annually if credit card interest rates were capped at 10%, as proposed by President Donald Trump

7:47 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A bill that would let Texas residents sue out-of-state abortion pill providers for up to $100,000 has been passed by lawmakers and sent to the governor

2:53 PM on Tuesday, September 2