Politics & Government News

3:00 PM on Thursday, October 2

2:49 PM on Thursday, October 2

A provision included in California housing legislation this year caps at $100 the fines that homeowners associations can levy to enforce regulations

1:33 PM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has been frenetically posting on social media during the government shutdown

1:33 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Justice Department fired a top national security prosecutor amid criticism from a right-wing commentator over his work during the Biden administration, further roiling the prominent U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia after the ousting of other senior attorneys in recent weeks

1:29 PM on Thursday, October 2

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state produced plutonium for most of America's nuclear arsenal through the end of the Cold War

1:05 PM on Thursday, October 2

A Democratic civil rights attorney who has advocated for better treatment of prisoners and testified against Mississippi’s diversity, equity and inclusion ban says he is running for Congress

12:42 PM on Thursday, October 2

A hearing is underway in El Paso, Texas, in a lawsuit that seeks to block redistricting maps from being used in the 2026 congressional election

12:16 PM on Thursday, October 2

Trump declares drug cartels in Caribbean unlawful combatants and says US is now in a 'non-international armed conflict'

11:57 AM on Thursday, October 2

A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to throwing a Molotov cocktail at Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies during protests against immigration raids across the region last spring

11:38 AM on Thursday, October 2

Republican leaders have presented a united stance as they try to keep the government open and berate Democrats for demanding health care policy changes in exchange for their votes

11:01 AM on Thursday, October 2

Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage

9:58 AM on Thursday, October 2

A U.S. immigration judge has denied a bid for asylum from Kilmar Abrego Garcia

8:45 AM on Thursday, October 2

Forty years ago, Israeli warplanes struck the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters outside Tunisia’s capital

8:13 AM on Thursday, October 2

The death toll after days of violent clashes in Kashmir between Pakistan security forces and demonstrators has risen to nine

7:05 AM on Thursday, October 2

French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe must take a tougher approach on Russia by shooting down drones the violate European airspace and boarding Moscow's shadow fleet ships

6:06 AM on Thursday, October 2

The next president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't a surprise

11:12 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Veteran Belarus opposition leader Mikalai Statkevich has vanished after refusing to leave the country in a U.S.-negotiated prisoner release in September, and human rights activists are demanding the government reveal his whereabouts

11:03 PM on Wednesday, October 1

If you’ve been in Washington long enough, you’ve most likely argued both sides of a government shutdown

5:56 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church

12:02 AM on Wednesday, October 1

The Environmental Protection Agency faces challenges during a government shutdown