Politics & Government News

12:24 PM on Saturday, July 25

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched his own political party, marking a split with former ally Ousmane Sonko

8:38 AM on Saturday, July 25

Trump’s tariffs are headed to court — again

5:23 AM on Saturday, July 25

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas has toured the state's southern border with Mexico to try to win support from Hispanic voters

5:15 AM on Saturday, July 25

House leaders are sending lawmakers home for the August recess after one of the rockiest sessions in recent memory to campaign for reelection

3:33 AM on Saturday, July 25

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed to the international community to support the people of Syria

2:37 AM on Saturday, July 25

Economics has a term for what U.S. grocery prices have done in recent years

2:15 AM on Saturday, July 25

Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits

2:10 AM on Saturday, July 25

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has been confirmed as the presidential candidate for his father's Liberal Party

2:10 AM on Saturday, July 25

India’s “Cockroach” movement has called off weeks of protests, saying the government has accepted all of its demands

10:55 PM on Friday, July 24

The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, an ornate 13th-century Buddhist temple in Thailand and tidal flats in western South Korea were among several sites added to the World Heritage List on Saturday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea

10:27 PM on Friday, July 24

India’s young protesters are taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with humor as much as street demonstrations, flooding social media with memes, parody videos and jokes while thousands rally across the country

9:02 PM on Friday, July 24

Ukraine is still fortifying its border with Belarus more than four years after Russia used the country to launch its assault on Kyiv

9:00 PM on Friday, July 24

Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson has secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine

8:55 PM on Friday, July 24

5:06 PM on Friday, July 24

The Trump administration has again acknowledged in court documents that it terminated $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state,” in this case, 16 states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election

3:51 PM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump has ordered his administration to install signs at the Smithsonian's U.S. history museum

1:01 PM on Friday, July 24

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate over progressive Abdul El-Sayed

8:25 AM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump has returned to the stage of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner

5:21 AM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump says the U.S. will open a formal investigation into the European Union’s trade practices

2:38 AM on Friday, July 24

A United Nations committee has inscribed a major archaeological site in the West Bank and a set of castles in southern Lebanon as World Heritage sites