Politics & Government News

3:51 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A Texas city facing a water shortage is starting talks with a private company with to build a new desalination plant

3:13 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Orleans Parish School Board has accepted a settlement in a funding dispute with the city of New Orleans

3:03 PM on Wednesday, May 6

U_S_ prosecutors say a plain glass-clad building in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood was a secret Chinese spy outpost, with orders to silence, harass and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents in the U_S_ It had a banner inside that said: “Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station, New York USA.”

2:24 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Justice Department has found UCLA's medical school illegally considered race in admissions

2:08 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A California city has fined a couple $915,135 for cutting down 38 trees

1:35 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The leading candidates for California governor are trying to stand out from the crowded field as mail voting is underway

1:24 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Justice Department has agreed to return Tennessee Republican congressman Andy Ogles’ personal cellphone that was seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, signaling it's abandoning its probe into the President Donald Trump supporter

1:17 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Voters in one Ohio county have upheld a ban on industrial-scale wind and solar power, with 52.9% supporting the restriction

12:55 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Central African Republic’s former prime minister and major opposition figure, Anicet Georges Dologuélé, criticized the confiscation of his diplomatic passport as an abuse of power

12:09 PM on Wednesday, May 6

With hundreds of vessels still stuck in the Persian Gulf and costs piling up, shipping companies are being whipsawed by uncertainty over how and when the Strait of Hormuz might reopen more than two months into the Iran war

11:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump has signed off on a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy, and it sets eliminating drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere as the administration’s highest priority

11:01 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Millions of taxpayers penalized by the IRS during the coronavirus pandemic for late payments or filings may qualify for refunds or penalty terminations

11:00 AM on Wednesday, May 6

9:19 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Sweden's coast guard has detained a tanker suspected of being part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet.”

7:47 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The primary election results in Indiana have shown how President Donald Trump can punish Republican lawmakers who defy him

7:11 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Venezuela insists that a mineral-rich region of Guyana was fraudulently taken in the 19th century

6:53 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The number of antisemitic incidents in the United States tallied by the Anti-Defamation League declined by 33% in 2025 — the first drop in five years — due in large part to what the ADL said was a dramatic decrease of incidents on college campuses

4:39 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A new AP-NORC poll finds about 6 in 10 U.S. adults say the country is no longer a great place for immigrants, though they believe it used to be

12:45 AM on Wednesday, May 6

11:58 PM on Tuesday, May 5

British voters will cast ballots in elections that could hasten the end of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s troubled term