Politics & Government News

12:24 AM on Friday, January 30

A joint investigation by The Associated Press and The Gecko Project has found that cyanide, arsenic and copper repeatedly leaked from a facility run by the largest gold miner in Liberia in recent years

11:31 PM on Thursday, January 29

Senate leaders were scrambling to save a bipartisan spending deal and avert a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday as Democrats have demanded new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country

11:09 PM on Thursday, January 29

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign

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 Supreme Court has ruled that the concession held by a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings to operate ports at either end of the Panama Canal was unconstitutional, an outcome that advances a U.S. aim to block any influence by China over the strategic waterway

8:30 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion

8:00 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his choice for Federal Reserve chairman on Friday morning

7:35 PM on Thursday, January 29

6:41 PM on Thursday, January 29

Aggressive immigration enforcement in Minnesota, which resulted in the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, and this week’s FBI search of an election office in Georgia have Democratic election officials concerned about what could be in store for this fall’s midterm elections

6:16 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would impose a tariff on any goods from countries that sell or provide oil to Cuba, a move that puts pressure on Mexico

5:55 PM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump is threatening Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade war with America’s northern neighbor as his feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney expands

3:04 PM on Thursday, January 29

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has signed a law that will open the nation’s oil sector to privatization

10:37 AM on Thursday, January 29

Costa Ricans appear ready to vote to continue supporting the program of outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves in Sunday’s presidential election

10:01 AM on Thursday, January 29

House Republicans are proposing sweeping changes to the nation’s voting laws

6:03 AM on Thursday, January 29

Amy Klobuchar says she's running for governor of Minnesota

4:16 AM on Thursday, January 29

President Donald Trump says he asked Russian President Vladimir Putin not to target the Ukrainian capital and other towns for one week as the region experiences frigid temperatures and Putin agreed, but Russia hasn't confirmed that

11:34 PM on Wednesday, January 28

Democrats and the White House have struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security as they negotiate new restrictions for President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement

11:08 PM on Wednesday, January 28

Melania Trump is capping her first year after becoming first lady again with the global release of a documentary about the 20 days before she and President Donald Trump returned to the White House

11:02 PM on Wednesday, January 28

President Donald Trump is pushing the federal government to back up his bogus claims that widespread fraud cost him reelection in 2020

10:24 PM on Wednesday, January 28

The Philippine foreign secretary says the Association of Southeast Asian Nations does not recognize the recently held elections in Myanmar, the first since the army seized power in 2021