Politics & Government News

4:46 AM on Sunday, August 30

Young Massachusetts voters agree that 80-year-old U.S. Sen. Ed Markey stumbled when asked during a debate how he uses artificial intelligence

4:16 AM on Sunday, August 30

At least eight people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus

3:02 PM on Saturday, August 29

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus

12:33 PM on Saturday, August 29

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to President Trump’s “Lake America” decree with a billboard declaring “Lake Ontario

10:17 AM on Saturday, August 29

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel and others in its quest to deport noncitizens who the government says have disrupted college campuses as they expressed their views

10:05 AM on Saturday, August 29

U.S. officials say British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom

6:55 AM on Saturday, August 29

UNICEF says nearly six children and seven women have been released by a gang in Haiti that had kidnapped more than 50 people after launching a deadly attack on a community near Port-au-Prince nearly a week ago

5:22 AM on Saturday, August 29

President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach

4:44 AM on Saturday, August 29

Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing

9:51 PM on Friday, August 28

In firing up a trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump turned to a 96-year-old statute so obscure that many trade lawyers didn’t even know it was still on the books

9:02 PM on Friday, August 28

Voters in Iceland are deciding whether to resume negotiations to join the European Union

8:45 PM on Friday, August 28

6:41 PM on Friday, August 28

Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno has been sentenced to prison for accepting bribes from the Chinese company Sinohydro

6:39 PM on Friday, August 28

A former White House teleprompter operator accused of using inside knowledge to make bets on the prediction market Kalshi has been ordered to turn over more than $100,000 in profits and pay a $65,000 penalty as part of a federal settlement

4:10 PM on Friday, August 28

The leader of the Seneca Nation in upstate New York is criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to rename Lake Ontario as “Lake America,” saying it violates a more than 225-year-old treaty and shows a “blatant disrespect” for the Indigenous people who gave it its name in the first place

4:04 PM on Friday, August 28

President Donald Trump says his administration has entered a sweeping agreement with Venezuela that, if realized, could give the U.S. access to vast amounts of the South American country’s untapped oil reserves, at cost

2:20 PM on Friday, August 28

The FBI is no longer treating an applicant’s prior encounters with prostitutes as an automatic bar against employment

1:21 PM on Friday, August 28

Immigration officials have arrested British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in New Orleans

9:02 PM on Thursday, August 27

Hundreds of protesters have rallied on the National Mall for a march in support of voting rights and racial justice ahead of the midterm election

8:06 AM on Monday, August 10