Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Politics News (Master Feed)

By Daphne Psaledakis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration has significantly changed a key U.S. government report on human rights worldwide, dramatically soft...

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrat Sherrod Brown will attempt to win back his U.S. Senate seat in Ohio in next year's midterm elections, according to media reports, in a race that likely ...

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected a bid by a group of unions to block the Trump administration government downsizing team known as the Department of Government Eff...

By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to put Washington, D.C., under full federal control to reduce crime, even as city officials stressed crime is already fall...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Liberty Mutual will give up $4.7 million in profit to settle a U.S. criminal bribery probe into an Indian subsidiary, in the Department of Justice's first public enforce...

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas Republicans tried on Monday to pressure Democrats to return to the state legislature after their absence again prevented a vote on a redistricting plan fa...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would ask Congress to tighten U.S. crime laws as part of a crackdown on violent crime in the District of Columbia an...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday announced he is invoking the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to place the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control, a ...

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has spent days escalating his rhetoric on crime in Washington, calling the U.S. capital "totally out of control" and ordering a federal law...

By Dietrich Knauth and Jack Queen (Reuters) -A landmark trial kicks off on Monday over the Trump administration's use of National Guard troops to support its deportation efforts and quell protests in ...