Politics & Government News

3:55 PM on Thursday, September 4

President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War

3:51 PM on Thursday, September 4

3:43 PM on Thursday, September 4

A reconstruction of the aborted deportation of dozens of Guatemalan children on Labor Day weekend illuminates the latest clash between the administration’s desire for mass deportations and longstanding legal protections for migrants

3:06 PM on Thursday, September 4

Argentina’s senate has dealt a blow to President Javier Milei’s libertarian agenda overriding his veto on raising disability benefits

2:58 PM on Thursday, September 4

2:42 PM on Thursday, September 4

Joe Biden recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer lesions

2:14 PM on Thursday, September 4

The U.S. Justice Department is ramping up efforts to target human smuggling operations exploiting America’s northern border, citing growing concerns about sophisticated criminal networks transporting migrants for profit, expanding their focus beyond the southern border

1:54 PM on Thursday, September 4

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court Thursday to let the president fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission, the latest in a string of emergency petitions over the president’s removal power

1:45 PM on Thursday, September 4

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing

1:34 PM on Thursday, September 4

1:29 PM on Thursday, September 4

Some Missouri residents are denouncing a plan to redraw the state's congressional districts at the urging of President Donald Trump

1:08 PM on Thursday, September 4

Leaders of a Chicago suburb that houses a federal immigration processing center say they were told that the Trump administration's promised immigration enforcement surge will run for about six weeks

11:59 AM on Thursday, September 4

New York’s attorney general is moving to have the state’s highest court reinstate President Donald Trump’s staggering civil fraud penalty

11:47 AM on Thursday, September 4

Florida is set to become the first state in the nation to remove vaccine mandates

11:20 AM on Thursday, September 4

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas as part of an investigation into mortgage fraud allegations against Lisa Cook, who is fighting a Trump administration effort to remove her from her role as a Federal Reserve governor

10:49 AM on Thursday, September 4

Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university’s response to campus protests

7:57 AM on Thursday, September 4

Rhode Island, Connecticut and the developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in the two states are suing the Trump administration for stopping the nearly completed project

7:56 AM on Thursday, September 4

Republican lawmakers in Congress are moving to eliminate limits on energy development in several Western states

7:43 AM on Thursday, September 4

President Donald Trump says the country would be on “the brink of economic catastrophe” without the import taxes he's imposed on U.S. rivals and allies alike

9:02 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal appeals court panel has put on hold a lower court judge’s order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”