Politics & Government News

6:26 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A jury has awarded at least $2.2 million to a protester who was shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy during a demonstration against police brutality in 2020

5:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Florida's chief financial officer has issued subpoenas to Orange County workers, saying they did not fully cooperate with the state's DOGE audit

5:08 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act

5:02 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A teenager has been sentenced to seven years in a youth rehabilitation facility for shooting Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay

4:22 PM on Wednesday, August 27

An Amish woman is accused of killing her 4-year-old son by throwing him into an Ohio lake as a test of her faith

4:15 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Demonstrators have hurled rocks at a convoy carrying Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Mieli as his campaign caravan cut through Buenos Aires province, the cradle of the country’s left-leaning opposition movement

4:06 PM on Wednesday, August 27

The United Nations agency that coordinates international mail deliveries says it's working to get small parcels dispatched to the United States again by resolving confusion over the pending elimination of a U.S. tariff exemption

4:01 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Rural hospitals are bracing for financial losses due to President Trump's tax and spending cut bill

3:33 PM on Wednesday, August 27

Indiana's legislative leaders met privately with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office to discuss redistricting, according to an Indiana House spokesperson

3:24 PM on Wednesday, August 27

A judge has ruled that Georgia's Fulton County must pay $10,000 daily until it appoints two Republican nominees to its election board

3:16 PM on Wednesday, August 27

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11:43 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration fights a federal judge’s order to shutter the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by a late October deadline

9:56 AM on Wednesday, August 27

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing to the Supreme Court again in its bid to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid funding frozen

8:29 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has come to encapsulate much of President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration agenda, say he wants to seek asylum in the United States

7:42 AM on Wednesday, August 27

The head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog has warned that the agency is not yet satisfied with Iran’s cooperation with international inspectors

7:35 AM on Wednesday, August 27

As President Donald Trump asserts more unilateral authority, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced that his department will take over managing Union Station from Amtrak

6:13 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A South Korean woman adopted to France in 1984 without her parents' consent is seeks compensation from South Korea's government

6:00 AM on Wednesday, August 27

A new poll shows handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump

2:46 AM on Wednesday, August 27

Bolivia’s prominent opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho has won his release to house arrest after two years and eight months of pretrial detention

11:06 PM on Tuesday, August 26

Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership