Politics & Government News

5:31 PM on Monday, December 8

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has designated one of the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy groups in the U.S. a “foreign terrorist organization,” following a similar step by Texas last month

4:40 PM on Monday, December 8

Honduras is still waiting for final election results, more than a week after voting for a new president

4:06 PM on Monday, December 8

Federal judge throws out Trump order blocking development of wind energy

3:45 PM on Monday, December 8

3:25 PM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump is justifying the U.S. military's decision to fire a second missile in a heavily scrutinized U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea

3:13 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal magistrate judge has rejected a bid by a former Colorado county clerk to be released from prison while she appeals her state conviction for orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race

3:08 PM on Monday, December 8

Bruce Blakeman, a Republican county official in New York City’s Long Island suburbs, is expected to launch a campaign for New York governor on Tuesday, according to a person with knowledge of his plans

3:00 PM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump has linked his administration’s immigration crackdown on Minnesota’s Somali community to fraud cases involving government programs

2:56 PM on Monday, December 8

A federal judge investigating whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should face a contempt charge over flights carrying migrants to El Salvador wants to hear from a whistleblower and a top Justice Department official

2:28 PM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump says he will allow Nvidia to sell its H200 computer chip used in the development of artificial intelligence to “approved customers” in China

1:22 PM on Monday, December 8

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the latest Republican candidate for Georgia governor to attack campaign finance rules that allow Lt. Gov. Burt Jones to raise unlimited contributions

9:50 AM on Monday, December 8

A Georgia state House member faces accusations of lying to collect federal unemployment benefits during the pandemic

6:22 AM on Monday, December 8

President Donald Trump is giving farmers some $12 billion in aid to help as they struggle to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs

6:12 AM on Monday, December 8

Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett has launched a campaign for the U.S. Senate in Texas

5:31 AM on Monday, December 8

A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school and released over the weekend have been hosted at a government-organized ceremony

5:19 AM on Monday, December 8

The U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to expand presidential control over independent federal agencies, signaling support for President Donald Trump’s firing of board members

4:15 AM on Monday, December 8

Thailand and Cambodia have resumed fighting over disputed territory, just months after agreeing to a ceasefire

2:13 AM on Monday, December 8

British, French and German leaders met in London with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of European support for Kyiv at what they called a “critical moment” in the U.S.-led effort to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

1:55 AM on Monday, December 8

Benin's government has said Sunday's short-lived coup left “casualties on both sides” of the government forces and the mutinous soldiers

9:04 PM on Sunday, December 7

Mohammad Marwan has been struggling to rebuild his life after being released from Syria’s Saydnaya prison a year ago