Politics & Government News

10:19 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has declared drug cartels operating in the Caribbean are unlawful combatants and says the United States is now in a “non-international armed conflict.”

10:16 AM on Thursday, October 2

Trump declares drug cartels in Caribbean unlawful combatants and says US is now in a 'non-international armed conflict'

10:10 AM on Thursday, October 2

Brazil’s lower house has approved exempting up to 5,000 reais ($940) a month from income taxes

10:08 AM on Thursday, October 2

The Trump administration has announced the cancellation of $7.6 billion in funding for clean energy projects across 16 states

9:57 AM on Thursday, October 2

A 23-year-old man has pleaded guilty to throwing a Molotov cocktail at Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies during protests against immigration raids across the region last spring

9:38 AM on Thursday, October 2

Republican leaders have presented a united stance as they try to keep the government open and berate Democrats for demanding health care policy changes in exchange for their votes

9:01 AM on Thursday, October 2

Shutdowns of the federal government usually don’t leave much economic damage

8:01 AM on Thursday, October 2

Moroccan officials said they will address public grievances after three people were killed during youth-led protests

7:58 AM on Thursday, October 2

A U.S. immigration judge has denied a bid for asylum from Kilmar Abrego Garcia

6:45 AM on Thursday, October 2

Forty years ago, Israeli warplanes struck the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters outside Tunisia’s capital

6:13 AM on Thursday, October 2

The death toll after days of violent clashes in Kashmir between Pakistan security forces and demonstrators has risen to nine

5:45 AM on Thursday, October 2

President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings of workers and suggesting “irreversible” cuts to programs important to Democrats

5:05 AM on Thursday, October 2

French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe must take a tougher approach on Russia by shooting down drones the violate European airspace and boarding Moscow's shadow fleet ships

4:06 AM on Thursday, October 2

The next president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints isn't a surprise

3:42 AM on Thursday, October 2

Hospitals say that Israeli strikes overnight killed at least 41 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

12:54 AM on Thursday, October 2

Israeli naval forces have boarded most of the vessels in a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and detained dozens aboard

9:12 PM on Wednesday, October 1

Veteran Belarus opposition leader Mikalai Statkevich has vanished after refusing to leave the country in a U.S.-negotiated prisoner release in September, and human rights activists are demanding the government reveal his whereabouts

9:03 PM on Wednesday, October 1

If you’ve been in Washington long enough, you’ve most likely argued both sides of a government shutdown

9:02 PM on Wednesday, October 1

President Donald Trump has used the government shutdown to reshape the federal workforce and target detractors

3:56 AM on Wednesday, October 1

Pope Leo XIV has intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church