Government News
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The president's chief of staff has criticized a ruling by a U.S. judge who blocked an executive order targeting funding to communities that protect immigrants from deportation
April 25, 2017 -
President Donald Trump plans to propose massive tax cuts for businesses big and small as part of an overhaul that he says will provide the biggest tax cuts in U.S. history
April 25, 2017 -
Three leaders of an Alaska fishing community who sponsored a resolution to promote inclusivity after the election of President Donald Trump are fighting efforts to recall them from office
April 25, 2017 -
South Korea says key parts of a contentious U.S. missile defense system have been installed a day after rival North Korea showed off its military power
April 25, 2017 -
A federal court has removed one obstacle to the U.S. government's plan to release more endangered wolves in New Mexico over the state's objections
April 25, 2017 -
Australia's prime minister says he's looking forward to meeting President Donald Trump next week in New York, more than three months after their heated telephone conversation over an Obama-era refugee deal
April 25, 2017 -
The leaders of a House committee say President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, appeared to violate U.S. law when he failed to seek permission or inform the government about accepting money from Russian organizations
April 25, 2017 -
A handful of Wisconsin dairy farmers whose Canada market evaporated in a trade dispute were weighing offers from new buyers on Tuesday, but others were running out of time before an expiring contract risked putting them out of business
April 25, 2017 -
Louisiana senators are moving ahead with a bill to end executions in the state, a rare proposal in a Republican-controlled region that tends to favor capital punishment
April 25, 2017 -
Nine former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations are urging Congress to maintain America's leadership at the world body by fully funding its operations
April 25, 2017 -
A newly released document says officials spent less than 10 minutes inserting IV lines in the first inmate executed by Arkansas in a double execution Monday night
April 25, 2017 -
A Republican senator from Wyoming says he regrets a poor choice of words after telling students a man who wears a tutu to a bar and gets into fights "kind of asks for it."
April 25, 2017 -
The Wisconsin Department of Justice has concluded that secretly recorded videos of a Democratic activist bragging about deploying troublemakers at Donald Trump campaign rallies show no evidence that any laws were broken
April 25, 2017 -
The issues are different and Republicans now control Congress and the White House, but the same gridlock and partisan brinksmanship of the past eight years have lawmakers scrambling to avoid a government shutdown this week
April 25, 2017 -
As curbside recycling has grown, environmentalists around the United States find themselves fighting to protect decades-old bottle recycling programs that critics say are becoming obsolete
April 25, 2017