Politics & Government News

2:16 PM on Monday, October 20

A Minnesota woman convicted of filling out and submitting a mail-in ballot for her deceased mother was ordered by a judge to write an essay and read a book about voting’s importance to democracy

1:51 PM on Monday, October 20

Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey are urging a judge to dismiss the case against him

12:51 PM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump has expressed confidence in reaching a "fantastic deal" with Chinese President Xi Jinping

12:42 PM on Monday, October 20

An annual conference about infectious diseases is seeing a dramatic attendance decline, in part because Centers for Disease Control and Prevention experts can’t participate

12:10 PM on Monday, October 20

A Nevada nonprofit that worked to send free books to children in Clark County didn't have its funding renewed by the state

11:22 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump has encouraged a retired Navy SEAL to challenge Republican Rep. Thomas Massie in next year’s Kentucky primary

10:17 AM on Monday, October 20

Head Start programs that serve tens of thousands of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government shutdown

9:40 AM on Monday, October 20

Furloughs have begun at the federal agency tasked with overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile

8:57 AM on Monday, October 20

A Vermont state senator who took part in a Young Republicans group chat on Telegram in which members made racist comments and joked about rape and gas chambers has resigned

7:33 AM on Monday, October 20

Chancellor Friedrich Merz has rejected calls from some in his party to relax its refusal to deal with the far-right Alternative for Germany

6:58 AM on Monday, October 20

A major road connecting the three Baltic states to Poland has opened, at a time of rising tensions between Europe and Russia

6:45 AM on Monday, October 20

6:33 AM on Monday, October 20

The Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights

5:16 AM on Monday, October 20

3:55 AM on Monday, October 20

Virginia is the last Southern state that has not passed new abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a national constitutional right to the procedure

9:03 PM on Sunday, October 19

Federal appeals court judges questioned the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor

8:21 PM on Sunday, October 19

Sanae Takaichi is on track to become Japan's first female prime minister after her party secured a crucial coalition partner

5:44 PM on Sunday, October 19

President Donald Trump says the United States could buy Argentine beef in an attempt to bring down prices for American consumers

11:02 AM on Sunday, October 19

Freed from the prison where he had been serving time for ripping off his campaign donors, former U.S. Rep. George Santos says he’s humbled by his experience behind bars

3:13 PM on Friday, October 17

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former U.S. Rep. George Santos, who was slated to serve more than seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and identity theft charges