U.S. government

The U.S. government will provide up to $12 billion in aid to American farmers hurt by the retaliatory tariffs imposed by trading partners, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced on July 24.

A Russian gun rights enthusiast who built a network of powerful Republican contacts under the direction of a Kremlin power-broker was ordered held without bond on July 18 after FBI counterintelligence agents accused her of conspiring to infiltrate the U.S. government.

Chinese telecom giant ZTE has asked the U.S. government to lift a ban on sales to the company, which threatens its survival and has added to trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.

The Republican governors of three southwestern border states on Monday committed 1,600 National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border, giving President Donald Trump many of the troops he requested to fight what he's called a crisis of migrant crossings and crime.

Jake Raak, one of the survivors of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack on Istanbul's Reina nightclub on New Year's Day in 2017, was asked at the March 27 court hearing in the case "whether he was an intelligence agent" or an "employee of the U.S. government."

Apple is cooperating with U.S. government inquiries into its secret slowdown of older iPhones, further complicating its efforts to move past an issue that irked customers whose devices bogged down.

Congress put the U.S. government back in business on Jan. 22 by voting to end a three-day shutdown, as President Donald Trump claimed victory in his standoff with Democrats in Washington.

The Statue of Liberty will reopen on Monday even if the U.S. government shutdown extends into the work week, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Sunday, vowing to use state funds to keep the landmark monument in operation, Reuters reported. 

The U.S. State Department has approved an export license for Ukraine to buy certain light weapons and small arms from U.S. manufacturers, spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

Moscow-based anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab sued the Trump administration in U.S. federal court on Dec. 18, arguing that the American government has deprived it of due process rights by banning its software from U.S. government agencies.