Politics & Government News

12:31 PM on Wednesday, April 8

Texas hemp industry leaders and advocacy groups have sued the state to block new regulations on smokeable hemp products

11:12 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Indigenous chief Raoni Metuktire says he still supports President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and plans to campaign for his reelection in October

11:07 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Poland's "Clean Air" program, aimed at reducing pollution and household heating demand, is losing momentum

11:01 AM on Wednesday, April 8

A ceasefire deal between the United States and Iran appears to be in jeopardy

10:50 AM on Wednesday, April 8

10:21 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced plans to tap into unconventional natural gas deposits to reduce reliance on foreign energy

10:13 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The California Supreme Court has ordered a Republican county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it

10:10 AM on Wednesday, April 8

The Department of Justice has indicated that former Attorney General Pam Bondi won't appear for a scheduled deposition next week before a House committee investigating how the government handled its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein

8:50 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has attracted another opposition Conservative lawmaker to the Liberal Party

8:47 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Authorities in eastern Congo say at least 21 people are missing after a boat capsized on Lake Kivu

8:37 AM on Wednesday, April 8

French former detainees Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris have returned to France after more than three years of detention in Iran

8:29 AM on Wednesday, April 8

California's election watchdog is investigating Santa Clara County leaders over a campaign for a voter-approved sales tax increase

6:23 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor state of Amapa that is receiving thousand of migrants looking for work

6:15 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Exploratory oil drilling off the coast of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are reshaping life in Oiapoque, a small city in the poor state of Amapa that is receiving thousand of migrants looking for work

5:36 AM on Wednesday, April 8

Turkish authorities have detained nine people in connection with an attack on police outside the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul

5:22 AM on Wednesday, April 8

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5:12 PM on Tuesday, April 7

South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing several short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea

3:29 PM on Tuesday, April 7

Texas health regulators have told Camp Mystic’s owners they are investigating hundreds of complaints following last year’s deadly floods that killed 27 girls

9:07 PM on Monday, April 6

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia