Politics & Government News

9:08 PM on Monday, August 10

Republicans are aiming to flip Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, which was redrawn after a U.S. Supreme Court decision this year weakened the Voting Rights Act

9:07 PM on Monday, August 10

Connecticut Democrats face a choice between U.S. Rep. John Larson and younger challengers for the 1st Congressional District

9:05 PM on Monday, August 10

The Democratic Party's ideological divide moves into new territory

9:04 PM on Monday, August 10

South Carolina Republicans are casting ballots Tuesday in a special primary to replace the late Senator Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies

9:02 PM on Monday, August 10

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is running in a special election where his main opponent is a man dressed like a dustbin

9:02 PM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump likes to say that he started his war with Iran after 50 years of economic pressure had failed to stop its nuclear weapons ambitions

9:01 PM on Monday, August 10

The Democratic Party's internal battle is heating up in Minnesota

9:00 PM on Monday, August 10

A democratic socialist is trying to rise above the incumbent governor’s endorsed candidate in Wisconsin’s chaotic primary race for governor

7:40 PM on Monday, August 10

The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat

6:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he'll sue the Trump administration to get his security clearance restored

5:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Australians can for the first time reveal their sexual orientation and whether they identify as a gender that is not the one recorded at birth in the country's census on Tuesday

4:32 PM on Monday, August 10

Embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in the race for his Ohio congressional district

11:44 AM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots

10:10 AM on Monday, August 10

A Pentagon official has urged Asian allies to invest more in their defense to deter regional aggression

9:50 AM on Monday, August 10

“The Dukes of Hazzard” star Ben Jones has died at 84

5:11 AM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that certain shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits

3:48 AM on Monday, August 10

U.S. President Donald Trump is scoffing at Iran's demands that the U.S. pay for devastation caused by five months of war

1:52 AM on Monday, August 10

Turkey’s parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants

12:18 AM on Monday, August 10

Voters have gone to the polls in the final phase of elections for the legislative assembly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

9:04 PM on Sunday, August 9

Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election