Politics & Government News

3:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers

2:50 PM on Wednesday, September 3

A federal judge has returned full control of policing practices to the Seattle Police Department

2:42 PM on Wednesday, September 3

The deadly U.S. military attack on a boat accused of carrying drugs in the Caribbean is the latest in a series of extraordinary measures that President Donald Trump has taken to combat the threat he sees from the Tren de Aragua gang

1:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University

1:37 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Republican state Sen. Bobby Hanig has announced his bid for a U.S. House seat in North Carolina

1:07 PM on Wednesday, September 3

South Carolina's top attorneys say family leave after childbirth should include at least six weeks of paid leave for stillbirths

12:51 PM on Wednesday, September 3

Elected leaders in Georgia's Fulton County have delayed a vote on approving two Republican nominees to the county election board

12:41 PM on Wednesday, September 3

President Donald Trump will soon ask the Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that found that he sexually abused writer E

11:51 AM on Wednesday, September 3

11:47 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The House has rejected a resolution to censure Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey

11:08 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have gathered on Capitol Hill to demand the release of the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier

10:56 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The conservative news network Newsmax has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Fox News

10:05 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Lawyers for Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro are in a last-ditch effort to defend him in court

10:03 AM on Wednesday, September 3

A judge in Utah has ruled that the state must proceed right away with redrawing the state's congressional districts

9:14 AM on Wednesday, September 3

C-SPAN's three public affairs networks will be carried beginning this fall on YouTube TV and Hulu's live television package, according to a deal announced on Wednesday

9:09 AM on Wednesday, September 3

The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

8:10 AM on Wednesday, September 3

A confidential United Nations report seen by The Associated Press says Iran further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels before Israel launched its military attack on June 13

7:28 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Mexico and the United States have agreed to continue collaborating on cross-border security issues like fighting the trafficking of drugs, guns and fuel

6:31 AM on Wednesday, September 3

Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister is praising a U.S. strike on a boat suspected of carrying drugs in the southern Caribbean

9:05 PM on Tuesday, September 2

President Donald Trump has affirmed that the United States will keep a robust military presence in Poland as he held a warm meeting with Karol Nawrocki, the new president of the American ally in Europe