Politics & Government News

4:21 AM on Sunday, August 10

Many of President Donald Trump's picks to be federal judges have revealed anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or defended abortion restrictions

2:36 PM on Saturday, August 9

Hundreds of Democrats cheered Sen. Ruben Gallego in eastern Iowa as the Arizona Democrat criticized President Donald Trump's tax bill at a town hall meeting in Davenport

1:55 PM on Saturday, August 9

Commercial fishing that recently resumed in a vast protected area of the Pacific Ocean must halt once again after a judge in Hawaii sided with environmentalists challenging a Trump administration rollback of federal ocean protections

1:22 PM on Saturday, August 9

Thousands of people have marched in Messina, Sicily, to protest a government plan to build a bridge connecting the Italian mainland with Sicily

12:43 PM on Saturday, August 9

Chad's criminal court has sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Success Masra to 20 years in prison

12:33 PM on Saturday, August 9

Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, who was shot in June during a campaign rally in Bogotá and remains hospitalized, has experienced a hemorrhage in his nervous system

11:59 AM on Saturday, August 9

Haiti’s government says it is implementing a three-month state of emergency in the country’s central region as gang violence surges

11:30 AM on Saturday, August 9

A top official at the Federal Reserve is saying that this month’s stunning, weaker-than-expected report on the U.S. job market is strengthening her belief that interest rates should be lower

11:13 AM on Saturday, August 9

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is zeroing in on New York Attorney General Letitia James

9:30 AM on Saturday, August 9

A spiritual leader of Syria’s Druze community is calling for an international investigation into clashes in southern Syria last month

8:34 AM on Saturday, August 9

Thousands of Ivorians have protested in Abidjan against the exclusion of opposition leaders from the upcoming presidential election

7:02 AM on Saturday, August 9

Dozens of gunmen have attacked a boat off Ecuador’s southwest coast

6:32 AM on Saturday, August 9

A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Georgia man who opened fire Friday on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta had blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal

4:48 AM on Saturday, August 9

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden is in his fifth decade in Congress and the veteran Democrat is showing no inclination to step aside