Politics & Government News

1:22 PM on Saturday, May 9

Rebels in Congo say the United States has fallen short as a mediator in efforts to end the conflict in the African country’s mineral-rich east

8:13 AM on Saturday, May 9

President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission is preparing to make recommendations after more than a year of hearings

8:06 AM on Saturday, May 9

Public health experts are questioning the U.S. government's response to the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship that involves Americans

6:37 AM on Saturday, May 9

President Donald Trump is making significant changes to the nation's capital as he focuses on renovations and new projects

5:57 AM on Saturday, May 9

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pledging to revive his struggling government amid calls to resign after disastrous local elections for his Labour Party

11:01 PM on Friday, May 8

As Donald Trump's meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping approaches, the family of Hong Kong's jailed activist Jimmy Lai is hopeful that the U.S. President could help free their father

11:01 PM on Friday, May 8

The congressional map appears to be tilting more red amid the latest flurry of redistricting developments across the U.S. Virginia's supreme court this week rejected a new districting plan on procedural grounds

8:23 PM on Friday, May 8

A note that a former cellmate says he discovered after Jeffrey Epstein’s first suspected jail suicide attempt was liked penned by the same person as a note that authorities found in the millionaire sex offender’s cell after he killed himself three weeks later

6:31 PM on Friday, May 8

Argentina’s tourism-dependent province — Tierra del Fuego, home to the southernmost city of Ushuaia — is reacting angrily to the idea that the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard an Atlantic cruise ship may have emerged from its territory, pushing instead for investigations into the other Argentine provinces passengers visited before boarding the ill-fated cruise

5:52 PM on Friday, May 8

A federal judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit against Fox 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

4:46 PM on Friday, May 8

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended the Trump administration's decision to impose new sanctions on Cuba

3:11 PM on Friday, May 8

ABC is accusing the Trump administration of trying to chill free speech and hinder open political discussion

11:29 AM on Friday, May 8

A town council in a small north Georgia mountain community passed an ordinance reinstating their police department and restoring the jobs of their police officers two days after the mayor violated the town charter by firing them all

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

7:28 AM on Friday, May 8

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

7:18 AM on Friday, May 8

President Donald Trump says the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have agreed to his request for a three-day ceasefire and an exchange of prisoners

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

11:02 PM on Thursday, May 7

Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new U.S. House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections