Politics & Government News

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore seeks the Democratic nomination for a second term in Tuesday’s primary for federal, state and local offices

4:16 AM on Monday, June 22

Utah voters will nominate candidates for Congress Tuesday using a new map that created a Democratic-friendly district in Salt Lake City and scrambled the reelection plans of the state’s all-Republican delegation

4:07 AM on Monday, June 22

Pope Leo XIV says wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed

3:19 AM on Monday, June 22

2:19 AM on Monday, June 22

The German government says it intends to take a 40% stake in defense contractor KNDS, whose products include Leopard and Leclerc tanks, as it tries to strengthen European production along with NATO ally France

2:04 AM on Monday, June 22

A former South Korean justice minister has been sentenced to 25 years in prison

12:20 AM on Monday, June 22

Francisco Guterres, former president of East Timor and a key figure in its independence movement, has died at 71

12:09 AM on Monday, June 22

Authorities say confirmed cases of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo have reached 1,003, including 254 deaths

11:47 PM on Sunday, June 21

Australia and Canada have signed a $1.75 billion export agreement to build an Australian-designed long-range radar system in Canada

1:47 PM on Sunday, June 21

Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, a key figure in the Cuban Revolution and former vice president, has died at 94

11:42 AM on Sunday, June 21

Mourners have gathered in Beirut to honor Mona Khalil, a Lebanese conservationist who died last week

11:20 AM on Sunday, June 21

9:33 AM on Sunday, June 21

Ethiopia’s ruling party has maintained an overwhelming majority in parliament following the June 1 election

9:24 AM on Sunday, June 21

Thousands of Czechs are rallying in Prague to protest a government plan to overhaul the funding for public broadcasters

1:39 AM on Sunday, June 21

High-level negotiations in Switzerland seeking a permanent end to the Iran war ended with lower-level talks planned for the rest of the week

Sunday, June 21

Political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella holds a razor-thin lead in Colombia’s presidential election with nearly all the votes counted, in a runoff vote marked by people’s fears of a renewed internal conflict

9:01 PM on Saturday, June 20

High-level negotiations in Switzerland seeking a permanent end to the Iran war have ended

4:36 PM on Saturday, June 20

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared an emergency Saturday to ensure the city gets the resources it needs to fight a large warehouse fire that has sent large plumes of smoke into the air