Politics & Government News

1:52 PM on Thursday, September 11

School choice has resurfaced as a hotly debated issue in Kentucky

12:47 PM on Thursday, September 11

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp now has a state trooper in the family

12:42 PM on Thursday, September 11

The Trump administration has asked an appeals court to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors by Monday, before the central bank’s next vote on interest rates

12:38 PM on Thursday, September 11

Trump administration requests emergency ruling to remove Fed governor Lisa Cook before meeting next week

12:04 PM on Thursday, September 11

Majority of Brazilian Supreme Court panel votes to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup

11:58 AM on Thursday, September 11

A federal judge has issued a nationwide block on a Trump administration directive that prevented children in the U.S. illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program

11:58 AM on Thursday, September 11

11:48 AM on Thursday, September 11

Provisions of a Florida law restricting the state’s process for getting citizens’ initiatives on the ballot can go into effect

11:40 AM on Thursday, September 11

Charlie Kirk began plotting a way to mold young minds into conservatism at an age when he was still sorting out his own path

11:33 AM on Thursday, September 11

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in Utah, a state that has permissive gun laws and allows firearms to be concealed or openly carried with some exceptions

11:32 AM on Thursday, September 11

Thousands have gathered in Slovakia's capital to protest against Prime Minister Robert Fico's pro-Russian and other policies

11:13 AM on Thursday, September 11

A Maine principals' group is resisting a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena seeking the names of all students playing interscholastic sports

9:44 AM on Thursday, September 11

The highest-ranking Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says he doesn't want to “fortify” the state Capitol, which is one of the country’s most accessible statehouses

9:20 AM on Thursday, September 11

A company says detainees have started arriving at a former Tennessee prison that’s been turned into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center

8:48 AM on Thursday, September 11

South Sudan's First Vice President Riek Machar faces treason and other serious crimes, local justice authorities said Thursday

7:29 AM on Thursday, September 11

For more than three years, Ukraine has been battling Russian attack drones

7:21 AM on Thursday, September 11

The U.N. migration agency is appealing for funds for around 134,000 people in Afghanistan who need help nearly two weeks after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in the country’s mountainous east

9:02 PM on Wednesday, September 10

A suspect on trial for attempting to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf in South Florida last year has forfeited his right to continue his opening statement

7:51 PM on Wednesday, September 10

South Korea’s president says Korean companies will likely hesitate to make further investments in the United States unless Washington improves its visa system for their employees, as U.S. authorities released hundreds of workers who were detained at a Georgia factory site last week

5:57 PM on Wednesday, September 10

Traditional news outlets were careful in their coverage of conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination to not show graphic images of the event