Politics & Government News

5:52 PM on Thursday, May 14

Voting rights groups are arguing that a federal judge should stop President Donald Trump's executive order restricting mail voting because he doesn’t have the authority to do so

5:03 PM on Thursday, May 14

The House Ethics Committee is investigating Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina over allegations that he created a hostile work environment and engaged in sexual harassment

4:59 PM on Thursday, May 14

Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller of Ohio has filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-wife and her legal team

3:32 PM on Thursday, May 14

The Justice Department is accusing Yale University of illegally considering race in its medical school admissions

3:29 PM on Thursday, May 14

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney unveils a clean electricity strategy aimed at doubling Canada’s electricity grid by 2050

2:56 PM on Thursday, May 14

Guyana’s government has sent a protest note to Venezuela demanding an investigation into recent border shootings that wounded Guyanese soldiers

2:04 PM on Thursday, May 14

On Christmas Eve 2024, Elianis Caridad Morejón Pérez, a young Cuban woman, told her mother she was boarding a boat from southern Mexico to the U.S. She disappeared along with 39 other migrants from Cuba, Honduras, and Ecuador

1:14 PM on Thursday, May 14

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has unveiled his final budget proposal

1:06 PM on Thursday, May 14

The Trump administration has announced $1.8 billion in additional funding for U.N. humanitarian aid

12:33 PM on Thursday, May 14

Xavier Becerra, a Democrat running for California governor, is propping up his decades-long career in public office as proof he can succeed in the state's highest office

11:57 AM on Thursday, May 14

The head of U.S. Border Patrol has announced his resignation

11:25 AM on Thursday, May 14

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring a Colombian woman back to the U.S. from Congo

9:48 AM on Thursday, May 14

State senators in Louisiana have passed a new congressional map after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the previous one

9:08 AM on Thursday, May 14

The Justice Department is challenging efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, asserting in a lawsuit that the District of Columbia Bar is unfairly playing politics with the legal disciplinary process

8:46 AM on Thursday, May 14

Large crowds of ultranationalist Jews are marching through Jerusalem's Old City, many of them chanting incendiary slogans like "death to Arabs."

8:09 AM on Thursday, May 14

Israel and Lebanon have started a third round of direct talks in Washington

5:22 AM on Thursday, May 14

Vice President JD Vance is highlighting the Trump administration’s efforts to combat fraud in a visit to Maine ahead of the state’s primary elections for several high-profile races

4:44 AM on Thursday, May 14

A Philippine senator wanted by the International Criminal Court has fled from the Senate, where he sought refuge to evade arrest

11:03 PM on Wednesday, May 13

A global oil bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz has created a financial windfall on the other side of the world in New Mexico that is both enviable and politically sensitive in a Democratic-dominated state

7:14 PM on Wednesday, May 13

President Donald Trump is in Beijing for key meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping