Politics & Government News

5:21 AM on Friday, August 28

Lawmakers in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have elected Syed Iftikhar Ali Gillani as prime minister after he secured 30 of the 44 votes cast in the legislative assembly

4:34 AM on Friday, August 28

A political transition is underway during the late days of summer

4:11 AM on Friday, August 28

Attorney General Todd Blanche says in an Associated Press interview that he'll lead the Department of Justice with integrity

12:26 AM on Friday, August 28

A tribal monarch in Uganda who ascended his ancient throne as an infant and fascinated world leaders as a boy king has died

9:14 PM on Thursday, August 27

A beloved New Orleans hospital building where doctors and nurses heroically treated patients without electricity after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 is poised for redevelopment

9:14 PM on Thursday, August 27

The Iran war has changed the Middle East, but not in the ways that the United States and Israel had hoped

8:08 PM on Thursday, August 27

A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon

7:03 PM on Thursday, August 27

Quebec’s governing party has opened the provincial election campaign by casting U_S_ President Donald Trump as its “real adversary.”

6:41 PM on Thursday, August 27

A federal judge is once again blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to limit mail voting in the midterm elections

4:37 PM on Thursday, August 27

The Tohono O’odham Nation says armed federal agents accompanied contractors who trespassed on tribal land this week as they began construction of an Arizona section of a border wall

1:22 PM on Thursday, August 27

Judge Christopher Cooper has expressed skepticism about the Kennedy Center's plan to quickly add President Donald Trump's name to the building

10:53 AM on Thursday, August 27

Federal investigators say the ongoing White House construction contributed to radio problems that kept air traffic controllers from hearing the calls warning that President Donald Trump’s helicopter was getting ready to take off, so they cleared an airline jet to take off just as Marine One took to the air earlier this month

9:45 AM on Thursday, August 27

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks, saying officers would use them to control detainees and protesters who resist

6:37 AM on Thursday, August 27

President Donald Trump says he is renaming Lake Ontario as "Lake America" in the U.S. This move comes as he intensifies a trade war with Canada

5:34 AM on Thursday, August 27

Legal experts say an immigration officer’s release from a Texas jail despite a request to return him to Minnesota for prosecution could create a dangerous precedent

1:37 AM on Thursday, August 27

Qatar and other regional powers are seeking an off-ramp from the U.S. war

9:02 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate have taken the stand in federal court, arguing they can't defend themselves from sex charges while jailed in Miami

7:48 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Rescue teams and military helicopters are searching for hundreds of missing people after flash floods on the Nepal-China border

9:11 PM on Sunday, August 23

Icelanders are voting Saturday on whether to restart talks about joining the European Union

8:06 AM on Monday, August 10