Politics & Government News

2:19 PM on Tuesday, July 21

The Mexican man who was struck and killed by a tractor trailer while running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida had been vacationing in the U.S. on a tourist visa

2:09 PM on Tuesday, July 21

2:00 PM on Tuesday, July 21

An active-duty soldier who was hit by a stray bullet outside the White House plans to sue the Secret Service over the severe injuries he suffered

1:14 PM on Tuesday, July 21

A cargo plane packed with food and hygiene kits has left Miami for Cuba as part of the U.S. government’s humanitarian assistance efforts for the people of the island nation

12:09 PM on Tuesday, July 21

President Donald Trump has reached back to the Great Depression for an obscure trade weapon he can use to wallop Canada again

11:15 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace

11:08 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Moldova's pro-Western parliament has elected investor Vasile Tofan as prime minister

11:07 AM on Tuesday, July 21

11:00 AM on Tuesday, July 21

French lawmakers have approved a bill banning children under 15 from using social media

10:54 AM on Tuesday, July 21

New Jersey's governor says about 6,600 people who indicated they were noncitizens were nonetheless registered to vote in the state because of a Motor Vehicle Commission system error

10:43 AM on Tuesday, July 21

A federal appeals court has upheld White House adviser Peter Navarro’s convictions for defying a subpoena for records from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

10:41 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The State Department has informed Congress that it plans to move ahead with the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Libya

8:46 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms

8:14 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is pushing back against a White House report labeling the institution's leadership as radical activists

8:04 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Prosecutors in Hungary have raided offices housing data servers used by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party

8:02 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Guyana's prime minister says a ferry that capsized over the weekend had as many as 179 people aboard, far more than listed on its manifest

7:42 AM on Tuesday, July 21

The United Nations refugee agency says it is “extremely saddened” after nearly 150 people died or went missing off Mauritania last week

7:40 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Prosecutors say the man charged with killing former British politician Ann Widdecombe struck her 21 times in the head with a hammer

5:12 AM on Tuesday, July 21

Joe Biden disagrees with an appeals court's rejection of his effort to block the release of audio recordings of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter

9:59 PM on Monday, July 20

President Donald Trump has pledged significant support for Lebanon during a White House meeting with Lebanese leader Joseph Aoun