Politics & Government News

11:20 AM on Thursday, January 22

In the year since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration, he’s made sweeping policy changes, eliminated hundreds of government jobs, battled dozens of cases in courts and most recently, deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to major American cities in an effort to tackle immigration concerns he campaigned on

11:13 AM on Thursday, January 22

Berkeley's City Council has approved a proposal allowing property owners to sell accessory dwelling units, like backyard cottages and basement apartments, as condos

10:37 AM on Thursday, January 22

Virginia's new Attorney General Jay Jones is reversing his predecessor’s stance on in-state tuition for immigrants who are in the country illegally

10:31 AM on Thursday, January 22

10:10 AM on Thursday, January 22

Trump says he is suing JPMorgan Chase and its CEO Jamie Dimon for alleged 'political' debanking

9:56 AM on Thursday, January 22

The Trump administration is expanding its ban on U.S. foreign aid for groups supporting abortion services to include assistance going to international and domestic organizations and agencies that promote gender identity as well as diversity, equity and inclusion programs

9:14 AM on Thursday, January 22

A Missouri lawmaker has been formally reprimanded for sending a sexually vulgar text to a fellow House member

8:15 AM on Thursday, January 22

Guinea-Bissau's health minister says the government is suspending a Trump administration-backed hepatitis B vaccine study on newborns in the West African country pending an ethical review

7:59 AM on Thursday, January 22

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7:40 AM on Thursday, January 22

Colombia has announced a 30% tax on certain Ecuadorian products and says it will suspend energy sales to Ecuador

7:29 AM on Thursday, January 22

Texas has become the top source of new residents for nine other states, despite its own population growth

6:35 AM on Thursday, January 22

Woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted service at a Minnesota church has been arrested

6:26 AM on Thursday, January 22

The son-in-law of Venezuelan opposition figure Edmundo González has been released after more than a year in detention

6:26 AM on Thursday, January 22

Officials say that France’s navy, working with intelligence provided by the United Kingdom, intercepted an oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea that traveled from Russia, in a mission targeting the sanctioned Russian shadow fleet

5:35 AM on Thursday, January 22

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4:19 AM on Thursday, January 22

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte may have been instrumental in persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to scrap his threat of tariffs as he presses for control over Greenland

11:15 PM on Wednesday, January 21

U.S. President Donald Trump used the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to unveil a proposed "Board of Peace" for Gaza

9:07 PM on Wednesday, January 21

Joe Biden promised Europe that "America is back" early in his presidency, aiming to mend ties after Donald Trump's tenure