Politics & Government News

4:09 PM on Friday, May 22

The Michigan House has approved a bill giving Mackinac Island control over ferry services, including prices for fares, parking, and baggage handling

3:46 PM on Friday, May 22

Plans for a border wall in the Big Bend region of West Texas have been marked by shifting, unannounced changes and have sparked widespread opposition

3:32 PM on Friday, May 22

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him

2:15 PM on Friday, May 22

Colombian security forces have moved into the southwestern municipality of Silvia following a violent territorial dispute between two Indigenous groups

2:14 PM on Friday, May 22

A coalition of President Donald Trump's critics is suing to block payouts from a new $1.8 billion settlement fund for Trump allies claiming to be victims of a weaponized government

1:54 PM on Friday, May 22

The Trump administration’s strategy against Cuba is looking a lot like the playbook for Venezuela

1:32 PM on Friday, May 22

A standoff between Turkey's main opposition party leaders has escalated after a court reappointed the former chairman

1:32 PM on Friday, May 22

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing back on delays by the Department of Defense in sending roughly $600 million in security aid to Ukraine and other allies in eastern Europe

1:01 PM on Friday, May 22

Advocates for telling the whole truth of American history are celebrating the legacy of Ona Judge, from her footprints in Philadelphia to her face in New Hampshire

12:37 PM on Friday, May 22

Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying she needed to leave office as her husband battles cancer

12:22 PM on Friday, May 22

President Donald Trump has overseen the White House swearing-in of the new Federal Reserve chair

11:47 AM on Friday, May 22

Slovenia’s parliament has appointed right-wing politician Janez Jansa as the new prime minister two months after a tied parliamentary election

10:51 AM on Friday, May 22

A bipartisan group of senators is departing for a tour of Arctic nations to reassure U

10:00 AM on Friday, May 22

An imprisoned Belarusian journalist's relatives say he has fallen seriously ill

7:21 AM on Friday, May 22

Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Trump’s director of national intelligence, citing her husband's battle with cancer

6:37 AM on Friday, May 22

Ken Paxton is playing up President Donald Trump's endorsement as the Texas attorney general heads into the final days of U.S. Senate primary runoff against incumbent John Cornyn

6:16 AM on Friday, May 22

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “slight progress” has been made during talks with Iran

5:34 AM on Friday, May 22

Taiwan's government says it hasn't been notified of any pause in a planned $14 billion U.S. arms sale to the self-governing island

2:48 AM on Friday, May 22

NATO allies and defense officials have expressed bewilderment at U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland

11:01 PM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump has begun testing his midterm message, focusing on the economy