Politics & Government News

3:08 PM on Friday, May 15

The Trump administration wants to seize 14 acres of land outside El Paso that's owned by the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to install border barriers

2:51 PM on Friday, May 15

A $25 million grant to support struggling hospitals in California has become law just days after its introduction

1:31 PM on Friday, May 15

Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines

1:21 PM on Friday, May 15

Fisk University President Agenia Clark has announced a $900 million plan to transform the campus in Nashville, Tennessee

12:25 PM on Friday, May 15

Social media CEOs have been called to testify before Congress amid growing pressure to protect young users

12:02 PM on Friday, May 15

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed legislation banning certain semi-automatic firearms

11:40 AM on Friday, May 15

Forty-six nations in Europe and beyond have approved new approaches for handling irregular migration

11:30 AM on Friday, May 15

10:51 AM on Friday, May 15

Peruvian voters are set to choose their next president between Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez

10:13 AM on Friday, May 15

The Texas Supreme Court has refused to declare that Democratic state lawmakers who briefly left the state last year in a quorum break to stop a vote on new congressional voting maps pushed by President Donald Trump vacated their offices

10:07 AM on Friday, May 15

Belarus’ authoritarian leader has greeted U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham, who arrived in the tightly controlled country to hold the largest evangelical gathering in its history

9:58 AM on Friday, May 15

U.S. President Donald Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping is considering the case of detained pastor Ezra Jin Mingri

9:56 AM on Friday, May 15

President Donald Trump plans to build an exhibit of statues featuring prominent Americans along the Potomac River

8:18 AM on Friday, May 15

The Trump administration has deported 15 Latin Americans to the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite U.S. court orders protecting them from deportation to their homelands

7:42 AM on Friday, May 15

4:54 AM on Friday, May 15

Maldivian authorities have suspended a high-risk operation to recover the bodies of four Italian divers believed trapped inside a deep underwater cave, after one body was recovered the day before

4:35 AM on Friday, May 15

Britain's government faces uncertainty as the Labour Party grapples with internal turmoil

4:00 AM on Friday, May 15

Democratic leaders are embracing independent candidates in red states where their party brand struggles

11:02 PM on Thursday, May 14

A bungled message from a South Texas housing authority prompted mass flight

7:00 PM on Thursday, May 14

President Donald Trump says he’s not yet made a decision on whether a major sale of U.S. arms to Taiwan can move forward following his three-day visit to China