Politics & Government News

5:13 PM on Wednesday, October 8

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he wants to save Rikers Island, the notorious jail complex that has become a symbol of dysfunction in the city's criminal justice system

4:08 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy says he is troubled that partisanship seemed to be “creeping its way into the court,” and that the state of political discourse in the country has gotten so vulgar and vile that he worries for the country

4:03 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Journalists who cover the U.S. military appear headed toward a showdown with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth

3:08 PM on Wednesday, October 8

As libraries across the United States observe Banned Books Week, the Hawaii State Public Library System has rebranded it as “Freedom to Read.”

2:38 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Trump says he's considering trip to Middle East in the next week as Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks continue

2:36 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The first week is the easy one

2:33 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The Supreme Court seemed ready to revive a Republican challenge to an Illinois law that allows the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, which have been a target of President Donald Trump

2:10 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The leader of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is set to join the state legislature

1:36 PM on Wednesday, October 8

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff says he raised more than $12 million from July through September

1:17 PM on Wednesday, October 8

12:50 PM on Wednesday, October 8

The IRS will furlough nearly half of its workforce as part of a new contingency plan

10:15 AM on Wednesday, October 8

President Donald Trump says the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor should be jailed as they oppose his deployment of National Guard troops for his immigration and crime crackdown in the nation’s third-largest city

9:20 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Joan Kennedy has died

9:16 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson says he is running for a U.S. House seat representing Memphis, challenging longtime Democratic congressman Steve Cohen to represent the majority-Black city in a contest of youth versus experience

8:58 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Kathryn Bigelow's new film, "A House of Dynamite," explores the chilling reality of nuclear annihilation

7:00 AM on Wednesday, October 8

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has launched her reelection campaign as her party looks to bounce back nationally from sweeping losses in 2024

3:23 AM on Wednesday, October 8

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to name a new prime minister within 48 hours

11:04 PM on Tuesday, October 7

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program

11:02 PM on Tuesday, October 7

As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight

9:18 AM on Tuesday, October 7

A Miami activist alleges that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted a sizable plot of prime downtown real estate to the state, which then transferred it to the foundation for Donald Trump’s future presidential library