Politics & Government News

2:06 PM on Thursday, June 4

Authorities say an investigation into identity theft and the use of fake identification documents has led to the detention of 48 immigrants and the indictments of six people in South Carolina

12:34 PM on Thursday, June 4

The House is on course to pass a bill to aid Ukraine and sanction key segments of the Russian economy

11:56 AM on Thursday, June 4

Romania's president has nominated European Parliament member Eugen Tomac as prime minister to end a political crisis

11:49 AM on Thursday, June 4

President Donald Trump says the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is complete

11:34 AM on Thursday, June 4

Prince William and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have paid tribute to former MI6 spy chief Alex Younger after his death at 62

11:29 AM on Thursday, June 4

Slovenia’s parliament has approved the new government of Prime Minister Janez Jansa, marking a shift to the right for the small European Union country

10:52 AM on Thursday, June 4

President Donald Trump is again seeking to boost the struggling U.S. coal industry

10:38 AM on Thursday, June 4

June is Pride Month across the U.S. But in some Republican-controlled states it's now officially Fidelity, Nuclear Family or Strong Families Month

9:46 AM on Thursday, June 4

Former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information under a deal with the Justice Department that could allow him to avoid prison time

9:38 AM on Thursday, June 4

The U.N. nuclear watchdog has been unable to inspect nuclear facilities in Iran affected by the war last June, according to a confidential report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog

9:34 AM on Thursday, June 4

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a case about the power of federal regulators over telecommunications companies

9:12 AM on Thursday, June 4

Senate Republicans have cleared a first hurdle as they try to pass legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies

9:00 AM on Thursday, June 4

The Literary Arts Fund has announced $7.7 million in grants across 40 organizations in 19 states

7:07 AM on Thursday, June 4

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is back on Capitol Hill to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee on the department’s priorities, one day after he refused to say whether President Donald Trump and his family would still get immunity from IRS audits after the administration abandoned plans for a $1.776 billion compensation fund that would have benefited the president’s allies

6:02 AM on Thursday, June 4

President Donald Trump's administration put dozens of college campuses under investigation last year and cut federal funding unless they came in line with his Republican agenda

1:57 AM on Thursday, June 4

Somalia's opposition supporters and security forces have clashed in Mogadishu for a second day ahead of a planned anti-government demonstration

12:45 AM on Thursday, June 4

Chinese authorities are intensifying efforts to erase the memory of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown

12:01 AM on Thursday, June 4

Former President Barack Obama’s influence in his presidential museum runs deep, from the Chicago location to the textured stone adorning its dramatic tower, art installations and a striped reading chairs that resemble ones in his own home

11:02 PM on Wednesday, June 3

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will strengthen its air defenses to counter recent Ukrainian drone attacks, which have reached deep inside his country

11:01 PM on Wednesday, June 3

President Donald Trump insists he's comfortable with the current holding pattern in the Iran war