Politics & Government News

3:14 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has pushed to restrict how license plates are scanned by law enforcement

2:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

California lawmakers are demanding answers after a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last weekend led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5, striking two California Highway Patrol vehicles

2:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading up to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

2:36 PM on Thursday, October 23

Tensions between the U.S. and China escalated in the weeks leading to a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

2:33 PM on Thursday, October 23

A Florida family is urging U.S. leaders to help free a 16-year-old Palestinian-American held in an Israeli prison for eight months

2:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

Some public figures carry threats to their livelihood in the palms of their hands

1:55 PM on Thursday, October 23

The New Orleans City Council held an emergency budget hearing to discuss a cash flow problem that may mean it doesn't have enough money to pay its bills for the rest of the year

1:50 PM on Thursday, October 23

The state of Michigan is suspending incentives and seeking to claw back millions from a Chinese business behind an electric vehicle battery plant project in northern Michigan after the project has been riddled with pushback from locals and national Republicans

1:34 PM on Thursday, October 23

A trail of debts that persisted during Jim Justice’s time as West Virginia’s governor has followed him to the U.S. Senate

1:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

If Zohran Mamdani wins New York City’s mayor’s race next month, he would become the city’s first Muslim mayor and its youngest in a century

1:31 PM on Thursday, October 23

Former University of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron is running for lieutenant governor of Alabama

1:26 PM on Thursday, October 23

New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at the White House

12:33 PM on Thursday, October 23

The Senate on Thursday rejected dueling partisan bills to pay federal workers during the government shutdown, with both Republicans and Democrats deflecting blame as many employees are set to miss their first full paycheck at the end of this week

12:12 PM on Thursday, October 23

Trump says in social media post he's decided to back away from plan to surge federal agents into San Francisco for now

11:43 AM on Thursday, October 23

Oil prices spiked Thursday after the U.S. announced massive new sanctions on Russia’s oil industry in an attempt to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and end Moscow’s brutal war on Ukraine

11:12 AM on Thursday, October 23

Maine Democrat Graham Platner remains committed to his U.S. Senate campaign despite a series of controversies

3:30 AM on Thursday, October 23

The European Union has heaped more economic sanctions on Russia, adding to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new punitive measures the previous day against the Russian oil industry

3:09 AM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Israel’s parliament vote on West Bank annexation

11:04 AM on Wednesday, October 22

National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes

9:01 AM on Wednesday, October 22

Graham Platner, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, tells The Associated Press that he's covered a tattoo on his chest to no longer reflect an image widely recognized as a Nazi symbol that he got nearly 20 years ago