Politics & Government News

5:17 PM on Wednesday, August 13

New York’s attorney general has sued the parent company of the Zelle payment platform, months after the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau abandoned a similar case under the Trump administration

4:07 PM on Wednesday, August 13

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his successful election campaign he could end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” upon taking office

3:04 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore millions in National Science Foundation grants to UCLA

2:39 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The U.N. Security Council has rejected plans by Sudan’s paramilitary group to establish a rival government in areas it controls

2:16 PM on Wednesday, August 13

The White House says Attorney General Pam Bondi is effectively in charge of Washington D

2:00 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has mocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer to help with Iran’s water crisis

1:26 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Colombians have bid farewell to senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, who died this week more than two months after being shot during a political rally

1:02 PM on Wednesday, August 13

12:26 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A newly released report from the California state auditor’s office says Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to have arbitrarily ordered workers back to the office without using specific rationale such as data on worker productivity

12:13 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Harvard University and the Trump administration are getting close to an agreement that would require the Ivy League university to pay $500 million to regain access to federal funding and to end investigations, according to a person familiar with the matter

12:09 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A judge is considering why it was necessary for the Trump administration to sue Maryland's entire federal bench over an order stopping the immediate deportation of immigrants challenging their removals

11:57 AM on Wednesday, August 13

The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on more than a dozen Mexican companies and four people it says worked with a powerful drug trafficking cartel to scam elderly Americans in a multimillion-dollar timeshare fraud

11:33 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A divided panel of appeals court judges says the Trump administration can suspend or terminate billions of dollars of congressionally appropriated funding for foreign aid

10:48 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Russian authorities have announced partial restrictions on calls in messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp

8:15 AM on Wednesday, August 13

A boat carrying nearly 100 migrants capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 26 people

7:24 AM on Wednesday, August 13

The top diplomats of Britain, France, and Germany are threatening to reimpose sanctions on Iran

5:59 AM on Wednesday, August 13

Nations are crafting the first global, legally binding treaty on plastics pollution

2:07 AM on Wednesday, August 13

President Donald Trump says there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war against Ukraine after the two leaders meet for a summit later this week in Alaska

11:05 PM on Tuesday, August 12

The fate of a makeshift immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” hangs in the balance, as a federal judge considers whether building on sensitive wetlands violated environmental laws

11:02 PM on Tuesday, August 12

President Donald Trump has put a personal touch on this year's Kennedy Center Honors