Politics & Government News

11:22 PM on Saturday, February 21

The state lawmaker favored to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the House is no stranger to the national spotlight

11:07 PM on Saturday, February 21

A woman who sought asylum in the United States after fleeing a country where homosexuality is illegal says the Trump administration's third-country deportation system sent her to another one

10:49 PM on Saturday, February 21

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is suspending the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a partial government shutdown continues

10:46 PM on Saturday, February 21

Homeland Security suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs during partial government shutdown

8:01 PM on Saturday, February 21

The Supreme Court decision striking down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs has added a wrinkle to already complicated U.S.-China relations

5:00 PM on Saturday, February 21

President Donald Trump has approved emergency assistance to Washington, D.C., to help the city address a sewage system leak that dumped at least 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River

3:13 PM on Saturday, February 21

The Islamic State group has released a new audio message that attacks Syria’s interim president and urges supporters to strike Jewish and Western targets worldwide

2:58 PM on Saturday, February 21

JPMorgan Chase now confirms it closed Donald Trump’s bank accounts after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol

2:12 PM on Saturday, February 21

Brazil and India have signed a new deal to cooperate on rare earths and other critical minerals

11:21 AM on Saturday, February 21

Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the U.K. and its European allies should immediately deploy noncombat troops to Ukraine to show Russian President Vladimir Putin that Western nations are truly committed to the nation’s freedom and independence

10:42 AM on Saturday, February 21

Venezuela’s government says it is freeing large numbers of people held for political reasons after passing a new amnesty law

10:29 AM on Saturday, February 21

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was raising the global tariff he wants to impose to 15%, up from 10% he had announced a day earlier

9:36 AM on Saturday, February 21

Arab and Muslim countries are sharply condemning comments by the U.S. ambassador to Israel, who said in an interview that Israel had a right to much of the Middle East

7:30 AM on Saturday, February 21

Governors have gathered for the annual National Governors Association dinner after a tense week

6:30 AM on Saturday, February 21

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States

6:12 AM on Saturday, February 21

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is the potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use

6:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

Some Republicans seemed relieved at the news that the Supreme Court had struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime

5:53 AM on Saturday, February 21

Hungary says it is blocking a major EU loan for Ukraine until Russian oil starts flowing again through the Druzhba pipeline

4:39 AM on Saturday, February 21

About 3,000 people have joined a far-right march in the French city of Lyon after a 23-year-old nationalist activist died from a beating last week

9:07 AM on Friday, February 20

President Donald Trump says he's imposing a temporary global tariff of 10% after his far-reaching tariff regimen was struck down by the Supreme Court