Politics & Government News

5:06 AM on Tuesday, August 11

President Donald Trump says that since Iran is seeking compensation as part of any peace talks, he’ll demand the same

5:00 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has selected a Republican-turned-independent as her running mate in a tough reelection campaign

4:13 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead

2:22 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A Taiwanese court has sentenced a woman to seven years in prison for conspiring with Chinese officials to influence Taiwanese politics

1:58 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of defying U.S. presidents

1:43 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A Syrian court has sentenced ousted President Bashar Assad and his brother Maher to death in absentia for crimes against humanity during Syria's 14-year conflict

1:03 AM on Tuesday, August 11

U.S. President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last year that he had “no cards" in the fight against Russia

9:08 PM on Monday, August 10

Republicans are aiming to flip Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, which was redrawn after a U.S. Supreme Court decision this year weakened the Voting Rights Act

9:07 PM on Monday, August 10

Connecticut Democrats face a choice between U.S. Rep. John Larson and younger challengers for the 1st Congressional District

9:05 PM on Monday, August 10

The Democratic Party's ideological divide moves into new territory

9:04 PM on Monday, August 10

South Carolina Republicans are casting ballots Tuesday in a special primary to replace the late Senator Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies

9:02 PM on Monday, August 10

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is running in a special election where his main opponent is a man dressed as a garbage can

9:02 PM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump likes to say that he started his war with Iran after 50 years of economic pressure had failed to stop its nuclear weapons ambitions

9:01 PM on Monday, August 10

The Democratic Party's internal battle is heating up in Minnesota

9:00 PM on Monday, August 10

A democratic socialist is trying to rise above the incumbent governor’s endorsed candidate in Wisconsin’s chaotic primary race for governor

7:40 PM on Monday, August 10

The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat

5:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Australians can for the first time reveal their sexual orientation and whether they identify as a gender that is not the one recorded at birth in the country's census on Tuesday

3:48 AM on Monday, August 10

U.S. President Donald Trump is scoffing at Iran's demands that the U.S. pay for devastation caused by five months of war

9:03 PM on Sunday, August 9

Count Binface, an intergalactic comedic candidate with a garbage can on his head, is at the center of the U.K.'s political universe

3:07 PM on Monday, July 27