Politics & Government News

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France’s lower house of parliament has narrowly approved a key health care budget bill, offering the minority government some relief from political turmoil

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Texas has launched a partnership with Turning Point USA to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every high school campus in the state

1:31 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed into effect a law to strengthen protective measures for women facing gender-based violence

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The House is expected to vote this week on a bill authorizing $900 billion for military programs

12:18 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The owner of a Massachusetts assisted-living facility that was the site of a fatal fire and an inspection company have sued each other over who is at fault for failure to address a faulty sprinkler system

12:16 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is set to testify on Dec. 17 before a special Georgia Senate committee

12:06 PM on Tuesday, December 9

Britain has announced sanctions against several Russian media and ideas organizations

12:03 PM on Tuesday, December 9

The Trump administration is threatening to pull public transportation funding from Chicago unless the city tightens security after a man allegedly set a woman on fire inside a commuter train

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

11:23 AM on Tuesday, December 9

A Georgia Senate leader is resigning from the state legislature to focus on his Republican campaign for lieutenant governor

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

6:10 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

5:42 AM on Tuesday, December 9

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the Trump administration’s new national security strategy underscores the need for Europe to become “much more independent” from the United States in terms of security policy

2:02 AM on Tuesday, December 9

Police officers have heavily patrolled mostly empty streets in major Tanzanian cities

11:07 PM on Monday, December 8

Conservative Supreme Court justices appeared to back a Republican-led drive, supported by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president

11:03 PM on Monday, December 8

Immigration lawyers and authorities say arrests of Afghans are on the rise following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. The suspect in the attack is an Afghan national