Politics & Government News

7:34 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is working to remove immigration judges who are slow or not following the law

7:03 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch

5:01 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Congo’s president says the African nation won't be able to hold elections after his term ends in two years unless the conflict that has gripped the country’s east is resolved

4:12 PM on Wednesday, May 6

President Donald Trump's lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, is asking a federal appeals court in New York to temporarily block a longtime columnist from collecting an $83 million defamation award

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

3:46 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva plans to discuss organized crime and tariffs with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to Brazil’s finance minister

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

2:24 PM on Wednesday, May 6

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

2:19 PM on Wednesday, May 6

In 24 hours, the Trump administration’s stance on the Iran war has pinballed from declarations that a tenuous ceasefire was holding and military operations were over to new threats of bombing the Islamic Republic

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

11:14 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The FBI has searched the Democratic Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop

9:03 AM on Wednesday, May 6

France’s aircraft carrier strike group is moving south of the Suez Canal into the Red Sea

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

7:29 AM on Wednesday, May 6

A U.S. fighter jet on Wednesday fired on an Iranian oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman as it tried to breach the U.S. blockade of Iran’s ports, the U.S. military said

7:05 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Members of Congress have come away from a private House committee interview with vastly different assessments of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s answers about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl

6:17 AM on Wednesday, May 6

Punk group Pussy Riot and Ukraine's FEMEN feminist organization have swarmed the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, protesting outside the venue and releasing colored smoke

2:20 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war

11:02 PM on Tuesday, May 5

Republicans are rapidly pursuing redistricting efforts across the South following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affects majority-Black congressional districts

5:56 PM on Tuesday, May 5

A federal civil rights agency filed a discrimination lawsuit Tuesday against the New York Times, claiming that the new organization passed over a white male employee for a promotion in favor of a lesser qualified woman to meet its diversity goals

10:57 PM on Monday, May 4

South Carolina is the latest state to enter a redistricting battle after the U.S. Supreme Court severely weakened the Voting Rights Act