Politics & Government News

6:45 PM on Friday, October 3

The New York Jets have been accused in a lawsuit of firing a former vice president as part of their response to sexual misconduct allegations against team President Hymie Elhai

5:56 PM on Friday, October 3

The United States is accusing Colombia’s president of undermining progress to lasting peace and urged its government to make combating violence and drug trafficking by “narco-terrorist groups” a priority

5:45 PM on Friday, October 3

A federal appeals court in Boston has ruled the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily

4:44 PM on Friday, October 3

A judge has announced that the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and others will be dismissed in 14 days if a new prosecutor isn't appointed

3:34 PM on Friday, October 3

Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to strip protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

3:25 PM on Friday, October 3

The Trump administration is offering migrant children $2,500 to voluntarily return to their home countries, dangling a new incentive in efforts to persuade people to self-deport

3:18 PM on Friday, October 3

Five years after protests roiled Portland, Oregon, the city known for civil disobedience is again at the center of a political maelstrom as it braces for the arrival of federal troops promised by President Donald Trump

3:04 PM on Friday, October 3

Native Americans watched the shuttered government on Friday and braced for damage to their health care, education and infrastructure

3:00 PM on Friday, October 3

A Palestinian activist arrested by the Trump administration in March says she feels helpless as she remains jailed while her family in Gaza suffers amid ongoing conflict

2:50 PM on Friday, October 3

Hamas says it accepts some elements of Trump’s peace plan but that others require further negotiation

2:46 PM on Friday, October 3

Speaker Johnson cancels House votes for next week as Republicans pressure Senate to accept funding bill and end shutdown

2:18 PM on Friday, October 3

President Donald Trump has reversed $187 million in funding cuts for New York's law enforcement and counterterrorism operations

2:18 PM on Friday, October 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s overhauling the inspector general’s office

1:59 PM on Friday, October 3

FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives and prominent allies of President Donald Trump

1:14 PM on Friday, October 3

A Georgia special state Senate committee plans to question Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis next month

12:44 PM on Friday, October 3

A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to the president and a threat to state security

12:01 PM on Friday, October 3

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered another strike on a small boat he accused of carrying drugs off Venezuela

8:49 AM on Friday, October 3

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is to hold face-to-face talks with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House

6:57 AM on Friday, October 3

White House budget director Russ Vought says the Trump administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, expanding funding fights that have targeted Democratic areas during the government shutdown

6:08 AM on Friday, October 3

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown are fading