Politics & Government News

5:53 PM on Tuesday, February 3

Historians and observers have accused the Trump administration trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign policy decisions toward Latin America by posting a “historically inaccurate” version of the Mexican-American War

5:48 PM on Tuesday, February 3

A federal judge who presided over the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein says a Wednesday conference to address harm done to the financier's victims by a massive release of records isn't needed after a deal was struck to protect their identities

5:22 PM on Tuesday, February 3

Federal immigration officials are scouting warehouses and beginning to purchase some of them to transform into detention and processing facilities

5:02 PM on Tuesday, February 3

A federal judge says he knows of no U.S. Supreme Court precedent to justify the Pentagon’s censuring of a sitting U.S. senator who joined a videotaped plea for troops to resist unlawful orders from the Trump administration

3:41 PM on Tuesday, February 3

Trump signs government funding legislation, ending the partial shutdown that began over the weekend

3:30 PM on Tuesday, February 3

A collision between a speedboat carrying migrants and a Greek coast guard patrol vessel off the eastern Aegean island of Chios late Tuesday has left at least 15 migrants dead, while a search and rescue operation involving patrol boats, a helicopter and divers was underway in the area, the coast guard says

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3:25 PM on Tuesday, February 3

A federal court in Florida has thrown out a lawsuit by Republican groups that challenged statistical methods used to produce the results of the 2020 census

3:04 PM on Tuesday, February 3

A Florida congresswoman charged with conspiring to steal $5 million in federal COVID-19 disaster funds has formally pleaded not guilty nearly three months after her indictment

2:07 PM on Tuesday, February 3

Ethiopian prime minister has accused Eritrea of mass killings while fighting alongside government troops against regional forces in the war in the troubled northern region of Tigray that ended in 2022

1:31 PM on Tuesday, February 3

Health care business owner Rick Jackson says he's running for Georgia governor as a Republican

12:56 PM on Tuesday, February 3

The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December

11:45 AM on Tuesday, February 3

The White House says talks between special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian officials are still planned after a Navy fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone that was approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea

11:31 AM on Tuesday, February 3

A Democratic lawmaker is raising new concerns about a Food and Drug Administration program designed to drastically shorten the review of certain drugs

10:36 AM on Tuesday, February 3

President Donald Trump is demanding a $1 billion payment from Harvard University to end his prolonged standoff with the Ivy League campus, doubling the amount he sought previously as both sides appear to move further from reaching a deal

9:48 AM on Tuesday, February 3

More prosecutors are leaving the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota during a time of continued turmoil over the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement in the state and recent shootings of civilians by federal agents

8:43 AM on Tuesday, February 3

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says Spain's government plans to ban social media access for children under 16

3:09 AM on Tuesday, February 3

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia breached its commitment to hold off on energy infrastructure attacks for a week when it launched a major assault on Ukraine overnight

11:17 PM on Monday, February 2

MAHA activists who want to hold corporations accountable for harming Americans’ health have found an unlikely ally in a Republican-led Environmental Protection Agency that has traditionally supported big businesses and less regulation

11:12 PM on Monday, February 2

President Donald Trump has signed a government funding bill that ends the partial federal shutdown that began over the weekend and sets the stage for an intense debate in Congress over Homeland Security funding