Politics & Government News

5:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

Immigrations and Customs Enforcement is encountering some pushback as it undertakes a $45 billion expansion of detention centers

5:06 AM on Saturday, February 21

At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers

5:02 AM on Saturday, February 21

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent

4:30 AM on Saturday, February 21

A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and on the brink of war with the United States

4:12 AM on Saturday, February 21

The Pentagon and the Energy Department have airlifted a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, demonstrating what they say is potential for the U.S. to quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use

4:07 AM on Saturday, February 21

Some Republicans seemed relieved at the news that the Supreme Court had struck down President Donald Trump’s global tariff regime

2:39 AM on Saturday, February 21

President Emmanuel Macron has called for calm ahead of marches organized by far-right groups after a nationalist militant died from a beating in Lyon

1:11 AM on Saturday, February 21

Hong Kong’s government is offering to buy back homeownership rights from residents displaced by last year’s deadly Wang Fuk Court fire

10:54 PM on Friday, February 20

Utah’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Republican lawmakers and left in place a congressional map that gives Democrats a high chance of picking up one of the state’s four Republican-held U.S. House seats in the fall

9:13 PM on Friday, February 20

Businesses face a new wave of uncertainty after the Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump under an emergency powers law and Trump vowed to work around the ruling to keep his tariffs in place

9:08 PM on Friday, February 20

The Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s biggest and boldest tariffs

5:26 PM on Friday, February 20

The U.S. military says it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean

4:51 PM on Friday, February 20

A lawyer picked by judges to serve as the top federal prosecutor for a Virginia office that pursued cases against foes of President Donald Trump has been swiftly fired by the Justice Department in the latest clash over the appointments of powerful U.S. attorneys

3:30 PM on Friday, February 20

The Trump administration says it supports a strict Biden-era rule that forces cities to replace most lead water pipes within 10 years

3:01 PM on Friday, February 20

Cuban officials say a U.S. fuel blockade is pushing Cuba’s health system toward collapse and putting lives at risk

9:25 AM on Friday, February 20

The two best bets to win the gold medal in women’s halfpipe skiing at the Winter Olympics were born in the United States

7:34 AM on Friday, February 20

The Supreme Court has struck down President Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs

5:30 AM on Friday, February 20

Five big European military powers have launched a joint effort to build cheap drone defenses and autonomous drones, using Ukraine’s battlefield expertise

5:26 AM on Friday, February 20

Hundreds of Buddhist monks have rallied in the capital of Sri Lanka to protest alleged government disrespect of their religion and disregard for a long-standing tradition that they be consulted in matters of state

9:08 AM on Monday, February 2