Politics & Government News

5:56 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Federal agents have used pepper spray to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis

5:38 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. military has flown a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign

4:50 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday refused to step aside as requested by President Donald Trump’s former attorney who faces felony forgery case related to the 2020 election in the battleground state

4:21 PM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has ordered Georgia's prison system to provide hormone therapy for transgender inmates

3:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The United Nations chief is calling on Yemen’s Houthi rebels not to prosecute detained U.N. personnel and to work “in good faith” to immediately release all detained staff from the U.N. and foreign agencies and missions

3:43 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Soldiers of the Nigerian Army have reportedly killed nine women protesting the army’s handling of communal clashes in the northeastern Adamawa state

3:05 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Justice Department has challenged a court order that complicated efforts to seek a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey by making a trove of evidence off-limits to prosecutors

3:03 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Frustrated by the city’s slow progress in painting crosswalks at intersections they believe are unsafe, activists in Los Angeles have been picking up paint rollers and doing it themselves

2:57 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country plans to send more water to the U.S., but not immediately

1:55 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The U.S. Justice Department has withdrawn from an agreement with Houston to curb illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods

1:35 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Gov_ Ron DeSantis has labeled the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a "foreign terrorist organization."

11:49 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Illinois has a new law shielding immigrants from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses, and day cares

10:55 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used an improvised WhatsApp audio briefing during a rapid tour of European capitals to reaffirm that Ukraine will not surrender territory to Russia

9:43 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge has allowed a Tufts University student from Turkey to resume research and teaching while she challenges her arrest and detention by the Trump administration

9:23 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A planned news conference by Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has been canceled after a several-hour delay, a day before Wednesday's award ceremony in Oslo

8:26 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A federal judge in New York has granted the Justice Department’s request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant

6:22 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A new study says that more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists report online violence and over 40% of them have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse

6:10 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Hundreds of Nicaraguans caroled the Virgin Mary at flower-and-light-filled altars set up in church parking lots as well as the back of vehicles on the streets of Miami to mark the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

3:14 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his refusal to cede territory, resisting U.S. pressure for compromise with Russia

2:19 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Lithuania's government has declared a national emergency over security risks from meteorological balloons sent from Russia-allied Belarus in recent weeks