Politics & Government News

12:13 PM on Sunday, August 23

Mexico’s Sinaloa governor has reversed his return to office after one day, bowing to party opposition over U.S. drug trafficking charges

12:00 PM on Sunday, August 23

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and outside Jared Kushner met privately recently

4:50 AM on Sunday, August 23

Pete Buttigieg was in South Carolina this weekend as he considers a second presidential campaign

4:19 AM on Sunday, August 23

Migrants have clashed with police at a detention center in northern Greece, cutting through a perimeter fence

11:21 PM on Saturday, August 22

Kazakhstan voted Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to further strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s grip on power in Central Asia’s largest nation

9:01 PM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have kicked off the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington

11:15 AM on Saturday, August 22

9:00 AM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump’s barrage of tariffs and threats of even more levies has quickly strained the United States’ longstanding relationship with Canada

8:40 AM on Saturday, August 22

Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker of Kansas has died

8:26 AM on Saturday, August 22

The United States' special envoy to Syria says Israel did not warn Washington ahead of striking an air base in northern Syria despite fears of escalation with the U.S. and NATO ally Turkey

8:19 AM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump has urged a federal judge to reject the BBC’s request for the court’s help in securing testimony and documents from three members of the president’s family in response to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster

8:07 AM on Saturday, August 22

Canada and the United States have long had one of the world's closest and most durable alliances

8:05 AM on Saturday, August 22

A federal judge in New York vacated a Trump administration policy that had suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration has deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States

7:32 AM on Saturday, August 22

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has been increasingly seen secluding herself at home

5:27 AM on Saturday, August 22

Just eight of 435 congressional districts backed a Republican in their House race and Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election

5:06 AM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump has transformed the White House Rose Garden by adding statues of America’s founders

2:23 AM on Saturday, August 22

The hard-line new leader of Iran’s top security body is threatening neighbors against joining new U.S. efforts to squeeze Tehran’s economy and saying the U.S. has increased global nuclear insecurity

3:17 PM on Friday, August 21

President Donald Trump is threatening to sue a left-leaning think tank unless it retracts a report that said his National Guard deployments to various cities did not reduce crime as he said