Politics & Government News

7:59 PM on Monday, February 2

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said Monday he doesn’t expect Bad Bunny to say anything divisive during his Super Bowl halftime performance

7:06 PM on Monday, February 2

The Clintons agree to testify in House Epstein probe, bowing to pressure ahead of contempt of Congress vote

6:58 PM on Monday, February 2

The Maryland House has approved a new congressional map that could enable Democrats to win the state’s only Republican-held U.S. House seat, but leadership in the state Senate has consistently said since October the bill doesn’t have support in that chamber

6:41 PM on Monday, February 2

The Alabama Republican Party on Sunday dismissed a challenge filed by an opponent to U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s candidacy for governor

6:23 PM on Monday, February 2

Federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending legal protections for 350,000 Haitians

5:34 PM on Monday, February 2

Legal experts say President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over leaked tax information raises a host of conflict of interest questions

5:00 PM on Monday, February 2

An attorney says Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has delayed giving members of Congress a complaint about her conduct

4:03 PM on Monday, February 2

The Trump administration is eliminating four out of six planned locations for a 2030 census practice test

3:52 PM on Monday, February 2

The secretary of Homeland Security is requiring that all the department's officers on the ground in Minneapolis wear body cameras

12:25 PM on Monday, February 2

The Justice Department says it has taken down several thousand documents and “media” that may have inadvertently included victim-identifying information after lawyers for disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's victims complained of insufficient redactions

11:54 AM on Monday, February 2

The father of a 5-year-old boy detained by immigration officers in Texas denies abandoning his son

11:52 AM on Monday, February 2

Georgia's Geoff Duncan was once a conservative Republican

11:27 AM on Monday, February 2

President Donald Trump says he plans to lower tariffs on goods from India to 18%, from 25%, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil

7:36 AM on Monday, February 2

Republican leadership in the House is hoping to begin the process of reopening the government by advancing a funding package that passed the Senate last week

7:35 AM on Monday, February 2

Friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has already cost Peter Mandelson the post of Britain’s ambassador to Washington

5:52 AM on Monday, February 2

A new round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine is set to go ahead this week

1:42 AM on Monday, February 2

Turkey is trying to bring U.S. and Iranian officials to the negotiating table to ease tensions and avoid U.S. military action against Iran

11:25 PM on Sunday, February 1

Hani Al Sawah, a rap artist known as Al Darwish, has returned to Syria after 13 years to perform his political songs for the first time without the Assad dynasty in power

9:44 PM on Sunday, February 1

Laura Fernández has won Costa Rica's presidency, continuing the political shift started by outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves

8:17 AM on Saturday, January 31