Politics & Government News

7:03 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Parliament has passed a bill to make cigarettes inaccessible to future generations in the U.K. Children born after December 31, 2008, will never be able to buy cigarettes under the new Tobacco and Vapes Bill

6:47 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Thousands of students have marched through the Czech capital to protest a government plan to overhaul and reduce public media funding

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Cambodia and China have held their first meeting of what is called a “2+2” Strategic Dialogue Mechanism

5:25 AM on Wednesday, April 22

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3:32 AM on Wednesday, April 22

President Donald Trump’s court fight over the $400 million White House East Wing ballroom casts some light on an underground bunker at the site

3:02 AM on Wednesday, April 22

Kyiv’s top diplomat says Ukraine is pushing for direct talks between President Zelenskyy and Russian President Putin

2:51 AM on Wednesday, April 22

European Union envoys are close to approving a 90 billion euro ($106 billion) loan package to support Ukraine’s military and financial needs for the next two years

11:57 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Pope Leo XIV is urging Equatorial Guineans to work for freedom, justice and to close the gap “between the privileged and the disadvantaged.”

9:08 PM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump's threat of military intervention in Cuba is raising hopes of regime change among Cuban Americans

9:05 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The president of Cyprus says fellow European Union leaders meeting on the island nation need to start preparing a playbook on what should happen if an EU country under attack puts out the call to bloc partners for help

9:02 PM on Tuesday, April 21

Sen. Bill Cassidy faces a tough situation as he prepares to question Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in two Senate hearings

5:13 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse in the past year

5:09 PM on Tuesday, April 21

The head of the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre warns that hostile nations like Russia, Iran and China are behind the most serious cyberattacks in the U.K. In a speech Wednesday, Richard Horne said British businesses need to prepare for large-scale cyberattacks, especially if the U.K. becomes involved in international conflicts

4:05 PM on Tuesday, April 21

President Donald Trump repeated his call for Congress to pass legislation that would rein in college sports at a time athletes are allowed to move freely from school to school and command salaries that put athletic departments in financial peril

10:41 AM on Tuesday, April 21

Two U.S. officials killed in a vehicle crash as they returned from destroying a clandestine drug lab in northern Mexico over the weekend were working for the CIA

5:20 AM on Tuesday, April 21

4:03 PM on Monday, April 20

President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve says that he never promised the White House he would cut interest rates, even as the president renewed his calls for the central bank to do so