Politics & Government News

11:06 PM on Tuesday, June 9

The Trump administration recently asked visitors to U_S_ national parks to report displays or exhibits saying “negative” things about Americans and to restore sites as “uplifting public monuments."

6:47 PM on Tuesday, June 9

The November race to determine California’s next governor will pit a Democrat promising to cement the state’s status as a stronghold of liberal policies against a Republican pledging to dramatically reverse course

6:42 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Republicans in Congress are introducing impeachment resolutions against a federal judge in Atlanta

3:32 PM on Tuesday, June 9

3:21 PM on Tuesday, June 9

The Trump administration is telling European nations that they need to step up their travel restrictions for people from Ebola-hit countries in Africa

3:15 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Brazilian police have rescued more than 100 Cuban migrants from human smugglers at the northern border with Guyana

3:05 PM on Tuesday, June 9

President Donald Trump seems to bring bad luck to home teams when he attends big games

3:04 PM on Tuesday, June 9

Cuba’s top diplomat to the United States says recent sanctions targeting the island's leadership and the indictment of former President Raúl Castro are a “pretext” for the Trump administration to persuade the American people to support a U.S. military intervention in Cuba

11:46 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than previously expected

11:18 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama says a controversial luxury resort development linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner will move forward despite growing protests

10:26 AM on Tuesday, June 9

President Donald Trump last year dramatically ratcheted up the fee for H-1B work visas to $100,000, saying it would protect American workers from losing their jobs to lower-paid foreigners

10:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

The Trump administration has warned more than 500 hospitals that they are failing to provide the public with enough information about prices

9:48 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says a new Canadian-built bridge across the Detroit River that U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to block will open soon

8:00 AM on Tuesday, June 9

After complaints about staffing cuts and long waits to get help at the Social Security Administration, its commissioner says things are getting a lot better

7:28 AM on Tuesday, June 9

The U.S. military says it has carried out strikes against Iran following the crash of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter off the coast of Oman that U.S. President Donald Trump blamed on the Islamic Republic

7:04 AM on Tuesday, June 9

House Republicans have passed a nearly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the next three years and the rest of President Donald Trump's term in office

6:25 AM on Tuesday, June 9

Researchers commissioned by President Joe Biden's Democratic administration to investigate alcohol-related health harms have released their findings independently

11:04 PM on Monday, June 8

Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette and state Attorney General Alan Wilson have advanced to a runoff for the Republican nomination for South Carolina governor while U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham won his own primary outright in his quest for a fifth term in November

11:02 PM on Monday, June 8

Graham Platner has won the Maine Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, setting up a high-stakes race against Republican Sen. Susan Collins

6:03 PM on Monday, June 8

A federal judge has questioned a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official about the government’s process for refunding billions of dollars importers paid before the Supreme Court struck down some of tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump