Politics & Government News

1:59 PM on Thursday, August 14

Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin says Virginia’s economy is thriving after ending its fiscal year with high revenues

1:56 PM on Thursday, August 14

Orthodox Christians across Alaska are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin

12:57 PM on Thursday, August 14

Texas Democrats have moved closer to ending a nearly two-week walkout that has blocked the GOP's redrawing of U.S. House maps before the 2026 election

12:51 PM on Thursday, August 14

Texas Democrats announce plan to end nearly 2-week walkout over GOP’s redraw of US House maps

12:27 PM on Thursday, August 14

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop sharing personal data of Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials

12:23 PM on Thursday, August 14

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11:43 AM on Thursday, August 14

California Gov. Newsom calls for Nov. 4 special election on redistricting plan aimed at adding Democratic US House seats

11:01 AM on Thursday, August 14

District of Columbia police chief will increase cooperation with immigration officials as Trump pressures the city

10:33 AM on Thursday, August 14

A judge has granted a request by federal prosecutors to dismiss two of the 14 counts that U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife face

9:57 AM on Thursday, August 14

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Robert A

9:27 AM on Thursday, August 14

A man charged with a felony for hurling a sandwich at a federal law-enforcement official in the nation’s capital has been fired from his job at the Justice Department

7:56 AM on Thursday, August 14

Justice Department indictments have been unsealed against three leaders and two high-ranking enforcers of Mexico's United Cartels

7:03 AM on Thursday, August 14

Florida Republican Gov_ Ron DeSantis’ administration is preparing to open a second immigration detention facility at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state’s holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

5:28 AM on Thursday, August 14

9:23 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A network of clinics that provides health care in Maine asked a judge on Thursday to restore its Medicaid funding while it fights a Trump administration effort to block federal money for abortion providers

9:03 PM on Wednesday, August 13

As National Guard troops deploy across her city as part of President Donald Trump’s efforts to clamp down on crime, D

8:46 PM on Wednesday, August 13

Los Angeles area students are returning to class under a cloud of apprehension after a summer of immigration raids and amid worries that schools could become targets in the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown

3:58 PM on Wednesday, August 13

A failed political candidate has been sentenced to 80 years in federal prison for convictions in a series of drive-by shootings

5:37 AM on Wednesday, August 13