Politics & Government News

10:47 PM on Thursday, October 23

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending, and an early upgrading of the country's security strategy to allow more offensive roles and arms exports as tensions rise with China, North Korea and Russia

10:21 PM on Thursday, October 23

Iraq is weeks away from parliamentary elections that will set the country’s course during one of the Middle East’s most delicate moments in years

10:10 PM on Thursday, October 23

China's top leaders have pledged to boost the country's self-reliance in advanced technologies and spur stronger domestic demand over the next five years

10:07 PM on Thursday, October 23

Anyone who watched U.S. President Donald Trump vow to condition financial aid to cash-strapped Argentina on the outcome of a “very big” and “very important” vote in the South American country would be forgiven for thinking that his close ally, Argentine President Javier Milei, was up for reelection

9:27 PM on Thursday, October 23

Voters in Ireland are going to the polls to elect one of two women as their new president

9:13 PM on Thursday, October 23

Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller will be unveiled Friday on the grounds of the Alabama Capitol

9:12 PM on Thursday, October 23

The deployment of National Guard troops on the streets of Washington faces challenges in two courts on Friday — one in the nation’s capital and another in West Virginia — while across the country a judge in Portland, Oregon, will consider whether to let President Donald Trump deploy troops there

9:04 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump says he agreed to halt a planned show of federal force in San Francisco after appeals from tech executives and the mayor

9:02 PM on Thursday, October 23

Authorities plan to give an update on the massive blast in Tennessee that killed 16 people earlier this month at an explosives plant

9:00 PM on Thursday, October 23

New York Attorney General Letitia James is set to make her first court appearance in a mortgage fraud case

8:28 PM on Thursday, October 23

7:52 PM on Thursday, October 23

President Donald Trump says on social media that he is ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of recent television ads protesting U.S. tariffs, which he calles “egregious behavior” aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions

7:48 PM on Thursday, October 23

Trump says he is terminating trade talks with Canada because of television ads protesting tariffs

7:02 PM on Thursday, October 23

As U.S. President Donald Trump makes his first trip to Asia since his return to office, speculation is rife that he may seek to meet Kim again during his stop in South Korea

2:18 PM on Thursday, October 23

U.S. Homeland Security officials say a 21-year-old semitruck driver accused of being under the influence of drugs and causing a fiery crash that killed three people on a southern California freeway is in the country illegally

12:28 PM on Thursday, October 23

Candidates in Ivory Coast's presidential election have held their last campaign rallies before Saturday's election

11:06 AM on Thursday, October 23

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says Russian military planes violated Lithuania’s airspace on Thursday evening

7:48 AM on Thursday, October 23

What it means to seek refuge in the U.S. has been transformed, casting aside an ethos of helping the persecuted nearly as old as the country itself

4:12 AM on Thursday, October 23

Hundreds of thousands of Hungarians have filled the streets of Budapest in competing demonstrations

9:04 PM on Wednesday, October 22

A growing number of people protesting against President Donald Trump's administration are wearing inflatable costumes at rallies