Politics & Government News

5:50 PM on Friday, May 22

David Brock Smith has won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Oregon

4:38 PM on Friday, May 22

Argentine Nahuel Gallo, who spent 448 days imprisoned in Venezuela, is calling for the international community to increase pressure on the government of interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez to release other prisoners

3:38 PM on Friday, May 22

Senegal’s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has fired Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko after months of simmering tension

2:09 PM on Friday, May 22

The Michigan House has approved a bill giving Mackinac Island control over ferry services, including prices for fares, parking, and baggage handling

2:06 PM on Friday, May 22

The Trump administration is announcing a new policy that requires foreigners in the U.S. to leave and apply for a green card from their home country

2:05 PM on Friday, May 22

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become a focal point in the debate over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies

1:46 PM on Friday, May 22

Plans for a border wall in the Big Bend region of West Texas have been marked by shifting, unannounced changes and have sparked widespread opposition

1:32 PM on Friday, May 22

Former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's lawyers say they'll ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a decision that put the government a step closer to deporting him

12:23 PM on Friday, May 22

A human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee has been dismissed without a trial

12:14 PM on Friday, May 22

A coalition of President Donald Trump's critics is suing to block payouts from a new $1.8 billion settlement fund for Trump allies claiming to be victims of a weaponized government

11:01 AM on Friday, May 22

Advocates for telling the whole truth of American history are celebrating the legacy of Ona Judge, from her footprints in Philadelphia to her face in New Hampshire

10:37 AM on Friday, May 22

Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying she needed to leave office as her husband battles cancer

8:38 AM on Friday, May 22

In pushing to prove his loyalty to President Donald Trump, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has agitated the same Republican lawmakers whose votes he may need to secure the permanent job

8:11 AM on Friday, May 22

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he’s determined to build a better Canada after Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith announced a public vote on whether to move toward independence

5:21 AM on Friday, May 22

Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Trump’s director of national intelligence, citing her husband's battle with cancer

4:16 AM on Friday, May 22

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “slight progress” has been made during talks with Iran

12:48 AM on Friday, May 22

NATO allies and defense officials have expressed bewilderment at U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would send 5,000 U.S. troops to Poland

12:10 AM on Friday, May 22

Raúl Castro rarely makes public appearances these days

9:01 PM on Thursday, May 21

President Donald Trump has begun testing his midterm message, focusing on the economy

9:00 PM on Thursday, May 21

Secretary of State Marco Rubio already faced a difficult task in soothing NATO allies anxious about President Donald Trump's often-abrupt announcements