Politics & Government News

4:03 PM on Friday, July 24

Joe Biden has dropped a lawsuit in which he sought block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before the Delaware Democrat was elected president

3:51 PM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to install signs at the Smithsonian's U.S. history museum

2:59 PM on Friday, July 24

Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said it has signed a memorandum with Peru’s Ministry of Culture to protect Indigenous territories along their border

1:37 PM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump keeps finding ways to maintain a wall of tariffs around the American economy

1:14 PM on Friday, July 24

Two sons of a man shot by immigration officers in Houston have told members of Congress about the horror and confusion of learning their father had been killed

12:55 PM on Friday, July 24

Virginia officials have released a scientific study on the state's groundwater supply and the possible impact of data centers after months of delays and mounting criticism

11:56 AM on Friday, July 24

The Pennsylvania Department of Health has received $242,000 to help county teams review child deaths, a state mandate that many struggle to maintain

11:25 AM on Friday, July 24

Texas courts are scrutinizing the state's child welfare agency more closely, especially when it comes to removing children from their families

11:21 AM on Friday, July 24

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk won a second term Friday despite opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel to keep him in one of the most controversial United Nations posts for four more years

10:31 AM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump says the United States will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices

9:40 AM on Friday, July 24

The Trump administration wants soldiers to consider becoming truck drivers when they leave the military

9:19 AM on Friday, July 24

Eleven people have been charged with causing the deaths of seven migrants by trapping them inside a cargo container in sweltering Texas heat

9:12 AM on Friday, July 24

Federal health officials have linked four more states to an outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite

7:36 AM on Friday, July 24

Maine Democrats who have been scrambling to tap a new nominee for a pivotal U.S. Senate race against Republican Susan Collins are expected to nominate Troy Jackson at a last-minute convention this weekend

12:13 AM on Friday, July 24

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has reshuffled top posts as he tries to boost his unpopular government

12:03 AM on Friday, July 24

U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest set of tariffs has provoked heated objections from America’s trading partners

9:04 PM on Thursday, July 23

Canadian officials are celebrating a new U.S.-Canada bridge over the Detroit River

9:02 PM on Thursday, July 23

Democrats have selected South Carolina to hold the first presidential nominating contest in 2028

4:06 PM on Thursday, July 23

Nearly 150,000 voters have had their mail-in ballots rejected for California’s June primary election, a sharp spike from previous primaries

1:33 PM on Thursday, July 23

Two descendants of Black people once enslaved by a Native American tribe are asking a federal court in Oklahoma to force tribal leaders to issue them citizenship cards as ordered a year ago by a tribal court