Politics & Government News

6:37 PM on Thursday, February 12

A Palestinian protester says “inhumane” conditions in a Texas immigration jail have harmed her health after nearly a year in detention, possibly contributing to a seizure she suffered last week

5:03 PM on Thursday, February 12

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis from North Carolina suggests he could support a compromise that would allow the Senate Banking Committee to start hearings on Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve

4:56 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.”

4:54 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration is ending Operation Metro Surge, a sweeping immigration crackdown in Minnesota that sparked weeks of protests and left two U.S. citizens dead

4:41 PM on Thursday, February 12

Analilia Mejia, a longtime progressive organizer allied with Sen. Bernie Sanders, has won a crowded special Democratic House primary to fill the open seat formerly held by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill

4:34 PM on Thursday, February 12

Analilia Mejia wins Democratic nomination for U.S. House in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District special primary election

4:09 PM on Thursday, February 12

Sen. Rand Paul has challenged federal immigration officers over the shooting death of Alex Pretti and said the public has lost trust

4:05 PM on Thursday, February 12

President Donald Trump's Federal Trade Commission chairman has written to Apple chief Tim Cook, complaining that the company has “suppressed” content from conservative news sources in the Apple News feed loaded onto many of its devices

2:38 PM on Thursday, February 12

The top antitrust official in the Trump administration is leaving her post amid tension about greenlighting big mergers in recent months

2:33 PM on Thursday, February 12

President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that has extensive contracts with the agency he would lead

1:25 PM on Thursday, February 12

A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appears certain

12:44 PM on Thursday, February 12

The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions

11:25 AM on Thursday, February 12

Venezuela’s ruling party lawmakers have debated an amnesty bill that could free hundreds of people held for political reasons

10:31 AM on Thursday, February 12

A lawyer appointed by judges to be the U.S. attorney for northern New York has been fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary over the process for selecting top federal prosecutors

10:03 AM on Thursday, February 12

The parents of an Alabama girl who was killed at Camp Mystic are seeking more safety oversight on summer camps

8:20 AM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration says it is ending its massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota after weeks of angry mass protests, thousands of arrests and two fatal shootings

7:19 AM on Thursday, February 12

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations

7:06 AM on Thursday, February 12

UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country

11:02 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a large U.S. delegation to the Munich Security Conference this week

11:01 PM on Wednesday, February 11

Key senators and the families of the 67 people who died when an airliner and Army helicopter collided near Washington, D.C., are convinced advanced aircraft locator systems that experts have been recommending for decades would have prevented the crash