Politics & Government News

4:55 PM on Friday, May 8

Migrant advocates in Arizona have designed a new tool to help track immigration-related enforcement in and around Tucson as arrests surge under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative

4:39 PM on Friday, May 8

An attorney says the National Science Foundation has suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley, despite a court injunction restricting such suspensions

2:21 PM on Friday, May 8

Three western U.S. states have announced a new two-year deal to stabilize the Colorado River

1:56 PM on Friday, May 8

Laura Fernández has been sworn in as Costa Rica's president, with outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves serving as her minister of the presidency and minister of finance

1:46 PM on Friday, May 8

The Texas Department of State Health Services is lifting a requirement for youth camps to install fiber optic facilities this summer

1:06 PM on Friday, May 8

President Donald Trump's administration is pushing federal land management officials to lift restrictions on hunting and trapping in national parks, refuges and wilderness areas

1:00 PM on Friday, May 8

Botswana's government says former president Festus Mogae has died at age 86

11:53 AM on Friday, May 8

A man charged with attacking the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is seeking to disqualify top Justice Department officials from direct involvement in prosecuting him because they could be considered victims or witnesses in the case

11:52 AM on Friday, May 8

A Florida jury has convicted four men of conspiracy in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse

11:17 AM on Friday, May 8

Spanish authorities are preparing to receive a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

10:48 AM on Friday, May 8

Federal prosecutors are seeking to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Manuel Rocha, a former diplomat who served as a secret agent for Cuba

9:29 AM on Friday, May 8

Countries are preparing to manage 140 people on a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands

9:15 AM on Friday, May 8

The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval

8:01 AM on Friday, May 8

California will become the first state in the nation to provide infants with hundreds of free diapers before they leave hospitals after birth

7:28 AM on Friday, May 8

The Pentagon has begun releasing files on UFOs, tapping into public curiosity about unidentified phenomena

6:14 AM on Friday, May 8

South Africa's highest court has overturned lawmakers' decision to reject a report implicating President Cyril Ramaphosa in a cash scandal

6:00 AM on Friday, May 8

A three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, has eased tensions over a potential Ukrainian attack on a Red Square parade in Moscow

2:30 AM on Friday, May 8

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged European allies to move beyond rhetoric and take concrete action against Iran, even as he sought to repair strained ties with Italy and the Vatican

12:06 AM on Friday, May 8

Partial results from local elections in England show significant losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party and gains for Reform UK

11:04 PM on Thursday, May 7

U.S. immigration officials have quietly lifted a hold on green card and visa applications for doctors from three dozen countries