Politics & Government News

4:13 PM on Friday, July 10

Nicaragua's government has stripped many lawyers of their licenses to practice, according to a United Nations expert

4:07 PM on Friday, July 10

A federal appeals court has rejected an effort to defend the Texas Dream Act, leaving a ruling in place that ends a state law allowing some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition

3:27 PM on Friday, July 10

Homeland Security has not fulfilled its promise to equip all officers with body cameras, despite receiving significant funding

3:06 PM on Friday, July 10

The Trump administration has waived a federal law to proceed with a border wall in West Texas

2:24 PM on Friday, July 10

A completed bridge linking Detroit and Canada is expected to open by the end of the month after a dispute delayed its debut

1:38 PM on Friday, July 10

9:42 AM on Friday, July 10

Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley is describing as “asinine” a suggestion that former colonies pay Britain back for its investment in them

9:25 AM on Friday, July 10

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to give Ukraine a license to produce Patriot air-defense systems could mark a major breakthrough for Kyiv

8:47 AM on Friday, July 10

A preliminary hearing in the case of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is done, for now

8:41 AM on Friday, July 10

President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill on Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that does not have enough support to pass

7:46 AM on Friday, July 10

President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission charged with assisting state and local elections officials

7:28 AM on Friday, July 10

Western leaders came to Turkey to discuss security in an increasingly perilous world

7:08 AM on Friday, July 10

6:01 AM on Friday, July 10

After Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities his agency would pursue

4:01 AM on Friday, July 10

A new AP-NORC poll finds that many Jewish Americans feel unsafe in the United States, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel

11:02 PM on Thursday, July 9

A group of retired federal and state judges has been barnstorming through Ohio and Pennsylvania on the nation's 250th anniversary to defend judicial independence and bolster the rule of law

12:07 PM on Thursday, July 9

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston as he drove his construction crew to a job

4:12 PM on Wednesday, July 8

11:06 PM on Sunday, June 28

The battle over birthright citizenship hasn't ended for President Donald Trump despite a June 30 Supreme Court ruling that rejected his executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

11:01 AM on Monday, June 22