Politics & Government News

6:23 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Costa Rica’s legislature on Monday rejected a second request to strip President Rodrigo Chaves of his legal immunity, blocking an effort by the country’s electoral authority to make the leader face charges that he has been using his power to meddle in upcoming elections

3:56 PM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro

3:51 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Trump says he is ordering a blockade of all 'sanctioned oil tankers' into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on Maduro

3:36 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Senior Border Patrol official Greg Bovino has returned to the Chicago area, about a month after leaving to lead immigration crackdowns in other cities

2:28 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A federal judge in Washington says he's inclined to deny a preservationist group's request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump's ballroom project

2:25 PM on Tuesday, December 16

A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health

1:57 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Israel has barred a private Canadian delegation that included six members of Parliament from entering the occupied West Bank

1:48 PM on Tuesday, December 16

House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums for Affordable Care Act recipients

1:37 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Maryland will create a commission to study potential slavery reparations in the state, after lawmakers overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Wes Moore

1:20 PM on Tuesday, December 16

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has offered an unusually candid look inside an ongoing presidency

1:06 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration says he won’t forget the 67 people who died when an airliner collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., in January

12:29 PM on Tuesday, December 16

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia are suing President Donald Trump’s administration for what they say is unlawfully withholding billions of dollars in funding for two electric vehicle charging programs

12:16 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The Trump administration has designated another Latin American drug cartel as a foreign terrorist group, increasing financial pressure on its members and opening the door to potential military action against them

12:04 PM on Tuesday, December 16

The Trump administration has announced an expansion of travel restrictions to include 20 more countries

11:19 AM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump will go to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Wednesday for a dignified transfer for the two Iowa National Guard members killed in an attack in the Syrian desert

11:05 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona says the Pentagon’s escalating investigation into his plea to troops to refuse unlawful orders is part of an effort to silence dissent within the military

10:39 AM on Tuesday, December 16

A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping an immigrant evade arrest is testifying at her criminal trial that she was shocked by her fellow judge’s behavior

7:00 AM on Tuesday, December 16

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defending Donald Trump's second presidency in a series of interviews published Tuesday

4:58 AM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are back on Capitol Hill as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela

4:04 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean