Politics & Government News

4:27 PM on Friday, January 30

Chile’s far-right President-elect José Antonio Kast visited El Salvador’s mega-prison for accused gang members ahead of a meeting with President Nayib Bukele to discuss organized crime

2:48 PM on Friday, January 30

California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero is taking a proactive stance to preserve access to the judicial system

2:45 PM on Friday, January 30

Work requirements are kicking in for many older adults and parents of teenagers to continue receiving benefits from the biggest U.S. food aid program

12:30 PM on Friday, January 30

Lebanon’s cabinet has approved an agreement to transfer Syrian prisoners back to Syria

12:26 PM on Friday, January 30

Lydia Romero struggles to locate her husband, Julio César Peña, who was detained by immigration agents in California

12:02 PM on Friday, January 30

Massive power outages in Cuba mean that many people are unaware that U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on any country that sells or supplies oil to the Caribbean island

11:20 AM on Friday, January 30

Federal prosecutors have charged Georgia state Rep. Dexter Sharper with making false statements to collect $13,825 in unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic

11:09 AM on Friday, January 30

The U.N. says Houthi rebels in Yemen have removed U.N. equipment and assets from unstaffed offices in Sanaa

10:09 AM on Friday, January 30

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed by Border Patrol officers

9:37 AM on Friday, January 30

Kevin Warsh has sought the job of Federal Reserve chair, off and on, since President Donald Trump first considered him for the position nearly a decade ago

8:21 AM on Friday, January 30

California Governor Gavin Newsom is demanding a civil rights investigation into Dr. Mehmet Oz, saying he discriminated against Armenians in a video about hospice fraud in Los Angeles

8:17 AM on Friday, January 30

President Donald Trump says he’ll tap former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chair to replace Jerome Powell in May

7:02 AM on Friday, January 30

The Justice Department has opened a federal civil rights probe into the death of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis resident killed Saturday by Border Patrol officers, according to federal officials

6:36 AM on Friday, January 30

South Africa has declared Israel’s deputy ambassador persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours

5:52 AM on Friday, January 30

President Donald Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh to chair the Federal Reserve could bring about sweeping changes at a central bank that dominates the global economy and markets like no other

5:48 AM on Friday, January 30

Israel says it will reopen Gaza’s border crossing with Egypt over the weekend

11:00 PM on Thursday, January 29

Many of the people whose ancestors lived in the U.S. thousands of years before Europeans are carrying tribal identification for protection against the Trump administration’s anti-immigration agenda

9:04 PM on Thursday, January 29

Panama’s president has vowed that critical ports at both ends of the Panama Canal will continue to operate without interruption

10:48 AM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired

7:30 AM on Wednesday, January 28