Politics & Government News

3:54 PM on Monday, October 6

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Dana Drábová, the head of the Czech nuclear watchdog, has died

3:11 PM on Monday, October 6

The Associated Press is objecting to Donald Trump’s characterization of its ongoing legal dispute over access after the president incorrectly characterized the case in a public forum

2:08 PM on Monday, October 6

The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully punishing immigration detainees for past crimes by transferring them to a notorious Louisiana prison

1:54 PM on Monday, October 6

Republicans have seized on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a bid to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally

1:49 PM on Monday, October 6

California's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the City of El Cajon, alleging its police department has repeatedly violated state law by sharing license plate reader data with law enforcement agencies in other states

1:10 PM on Monday, October 6

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana

12:29 PM on Monday, October 6

Several groups and nonprofit organizations have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency over the canceling of a $7 billion Solar for All program intended to make solar power accessible to more than 900,000 lower-income Americans

12:19 PM on Monday, October 6

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is warning lawmakers not to fall for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to divide Europe and wants them to work together for the bloc’s 450 million citizens

11:55 AM on Monday, October 6

Palestinians in Gaza are anxiously following indirect talks between Israeli and Hamas officials in Egypt

11:52 AM on Monday, October 6

Maine's state auditor and former secretary of state, Matt Dunlap, has announced he will challenge Democratic Rep. Jared Golden in the midterm primary

11:00 AM on Monday, October 6

Venezuela has warned of an alleged plan by extremists to attack the shuttered U.S. Embassy complex in Caracas with explosives

10:40 AM on Monday, October 6

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to lift the 40% tariff on Brazilian imports

8:17 AM on Monday, October 6

Paramount is buying the successful news commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as editor-in-chief of CBS News

7:11 AM on Monday, October 6

Republicans and Democrats have begun pouring money into an election this November for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court

5:34 AM on Monday, October 6

The Supreme Court has opened its new term

4:57 AM on Monday, October 6

A group of 10 migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini

4:12 AM on Monday, October 6

Syria's first parliamentary elections since the ouster of former President Bashar Assad have revealed deep divisions among the country's minority communities

4:10 AM on Monday, October 6

Israeli and Hamas officials are holding indirect talks in an Egyptian resort on a U.S. peace plan for Gaza

3:02 AM on Monday, October 6

France's new prime minister has resigned just a day after naming his government and following less than a month in office