Politics & Government News

3:30 AM on Friday, February 6

Lebanon and Syria have signed an agreement to transfer over 300 Syrian detainees from Lebanese prisons to continue their sentences in Syria

8:48 PM on Thursday, February 5

The Indonesian and Australian leaders have signed a security treaty that both governments say will deepen ties between the often-testy neighbors

8:32 PM on Thursday, February 5

The Democratic primary in Thursday's special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District is too early to call

8:05 PM on Thursday, February 5

The U.S. military says it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean

7:01 PM on Thursday, February 5

A New York man has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor harassment charge in connection with a death threat aimed at U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries

6:59 PM on Thursday, February 5

Hong Kong judiciary says former pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced Monday in national security case

6:58 PM on Thursday, February 5

Virginia Democrats have unveiled a new U.S. House map that aims to give the party four more seats in Congress

5:03 PM on Thursday, February 5

Political parties in Thailand are gearing up for their final campaign rallies ahead of a general election

4:37 PM on Thursday, February 5

Woody Allen’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein has been known for years, but emails in the huge trove of records released by the Justice Department illustrate that relationship in new depth

1:45 PM on Thursday, February 5

Venezuela's legislature has advanced an amnesty bill proposed by acting President Delcy Rodríguez

1:44 PM on Thursday, February 5

The U_S_ has announced an additional $6 million in aid for Cuba as the island’s crisis deepens and tensions escalate between the two countries, with Cuba’s president accusing the U_S_ of an “energy blockade.”

1:26 PM on Thursday, February 5

The Republican lawmakers in charge of the House and Senate intelligence committees have rejected an anonymous complaint from last year alleging that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard withheld access to classified information for political reasons

12:38 PM on Thursday, February 5

Argentina and the United States have reached an expansive trade deal, a win for Argentine President Javier Milei as he moves to open up the South American nation’s notoriously protectionist economy and a reflection of the close alliance between the radical libertarian and U.S. President Donald Trump

10:40 AM on Thursday, February 5

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Democrats' demands for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic.”

9:13 AM on Thursday, February 5

The Trump administration has launched TrumpRx, a website it says will help patients buy prescription drugs directly at a discounted rate

7:41 AM on Thursday, February 5

In Venezuela, political critics are emerging from hiding following the U.S. ouster of President Nicolás Maduro

5:12 AM on Thursday, February 5

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Homeland Security Department when it expires in two weeks unless there are “dramatic changes” and “real accountability” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies who are carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign of federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota and across the country

3:41 AM on Thursday, February 5

Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein

1:06 AM on Thursday, February 5

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to reestablish high-level, military-to-military dialogue for the first time in more than four years

9:01 PM on Wednesday, February 4

The New Jersey U.S. House Democratic primary between a onetime political director for Sen. Bernie Sanders and an ex-congressman is too early to call