Politics & Government News

12:46 PM on Friday, September 12

A lawsuit says some West Africans who were deported to Ghana were held in “straitjackets” for 16 hours on a U.S. military plane on which all passengers were shackled and given only bread and water

12:19 PM on Friday, September 12

A judge has released a heavily redacted document used to justify a recent search of the Maryland home of John Bolton

12:01 PM on Friday, September 12

Google launched a behind-the-scenes campaign against an online privacy bill before the California legislature

12:01 PM on Friday, September 12

The governors of Arizona, Illinois, Maine and North Carolina have signed orders intended to make COVID-19 vaccines available in pharmacies for people without individual prescriptions

11:55 AM on Friday, September 12

Texas state police officers have helped arrest more than 3,000 undocumented immigrants so far this year, many of them far from the border

11:41 AM on Friday, September 12

Missouri Senate passes Trump-backed redistricting plan that could help Republicans win an additional US House seat

11:31 AM on Friday, September 12

Spain's Foreign Minister has summoned Israel's acting ambassador in Madrid following comments made about Spain from the Israeli Prime Minister's office

11:29 AM on Friday, September 12

The Iranian foreign minister says Iran and France are close to agreeing to an exchange of prisoners, including the release of an Iranian woman arrested in France over online posts related to the war in Gaza

10:58 AM on Friday, September 12

10:00 AM on Friday, September 12

Some of the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic bishops and nuns on the front lines of America’s immigration conflict gathered in Washington to decry the Trump administration’s hard-line policies

9:40 AM on Friday, September 12

Suspect in assassination of Charlie Kirk is arrested on suspicion of capital murder, weapons and obstruction offenses

9:34 AM on Friday, September 12

9:26 AM on Friday, September 12

The French are getting to know their new Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, who has a unique greeting style

9:19 AM on Friday, September 12

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to update its immigration services website to reflect 600,000 Venezuelans with temporary protected status are legally allowed to live and work in the United States

8:41 AM on Friday, September 12

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is making an impassioned plea for Americans and young people in particular to use the horror of Charlie Kirk’s public assassination as an inflection point to turn the country away from political violence and division

6:55 AM on Friday, September 12

Amnesty International has called for a public trial for South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar, who faces treason and other charges

4:40 AM on Friday, September 12

The United Arab Emirates has summoned Israel's envoy to condemn Israel's attack on Hamas leadership in Qatar

3:33 AM on Friday, September 12

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is willing to risk a government shutdown at the end of the month if Republicans don’t accept Democratic demands on health care

3:23 AM on Friday, September 12

In the years since Russia invaded Ukraine, NATO has focused on defending its own territory first and resisted lower-level harassment from Russia, like acts of sabotage and intimidation

9:09 PM on Thursday, September 11

The governor of Utah struggled to find the right words to describe the question so many have been asking: What is happening in America