Politics & Government News

1:08 AM on Saturday, June 13

Workers have begun removing President Donald Trump’s name from the facade of the Kennedy Center, hours after a court-ordered Friday deadline

12:11 AM on Saturday, June 13

A confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says that the international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border

11:16 PM on Friday, June 12

In 1976, as the United States prepared to celebrate its 200th anniversary, the mood was ambivalent

8:20 PM on Friday, June 12

President Donald Trump says a “swift and lethal kinetic” U.S. strike has killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, whom he called “the infamous leader” of the Tren de Aragua gang

8:10 PM on Friday, June 12

Democrat Eric Jones has advanced to the November ballot in a Northern California congressional district, where he will face fellow Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson in the latest generational battle within the party

6:09 PM on Friday, June 12

Alabama is seeking to execute a man with lethal injection hours after his nitrogen execution was prevented from going forward

4:51 PM on Friday, June 12

Helen Mirren, one of the world’s most acclaimed actors, has joined a select group of people recognized by King Charles III for their “major contribution” to British life

4:21 PM on Friday, June 12

A group of U.S. Democratic lawmakers have promised Puerto Ricans that they would try to speed up the island’s sluggish recovery from destructive hurricanes and earthquakes, a process that relies heavily on federal funds

4:15 PM on Friday, June 12

4:13 PM on Friday, June 12

The Trump administration has barred Los Angeles County’s main homelessness agency from accessing federal funds

4:06 PM on Friday, June 12

The Treasury Department has moved to involve banks more deeply in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

12:16 PM on Friday, June 12

The Kennedy Center is running out of options to keep President Donald Trump’s name on the facade of the iconic performing arts venue

11:48 AM on Friday, June 12

Violent clashes have erupted in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, during a rally against a proposed constitutional change

10:35 AM on Friday, June 12

Pakistan's prime minister says the United State and Iran have agreed to wording of an agreement aimed at ending their war in the Middle East

10:03 AM on Friday, June 12

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has announced economic reforms to attract investment and involve Cubans abroad in the economy

7:14 AM on Friday, June 12

Pakistan's prime minister says the United States and Iran have agreed on a final text for a peace deal

4:21 AM on Friday, June 12

Chinese authorities have arrested an American scholar on suspicion of espionage

4:14 AM on Friday, June 12

Attorneys say an Iranian woman is among a group of people who have been deported to the Central African Republic from the United States

11:02 PM on Thursday, June 11

Defense lawyers for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk are asking a judge to block prosecutors from seeking the death penalty as punishment for comments they made in the media about a bullet fragment recovered from Kirk’s body

11:01 AM on Tuesday, May 26