Politics & Government News

11:15 PM on Sunday, August 23

4:40 PM on Sunday, August 23

President Donald Trump plans to visit Ireland next month

1:03 PM on Sunday, August 23

The father of a man serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln has been arrested by immigration authorities

12:13 PM on Sunday, August 23

Mexico’s Sinaloa governor has reversed his return to office after one day, bowing to party opposition over U.S. drug trafficking charges

12:03 PM on Sunday, August 23

The U.S. special envoy to Syria and ambassador to Turkey has clarified his comments on Israel's occupation of the Golan Heights

12:00 PM on Sunday, August 23

House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and outside Jared Kushner met privately recently

7:11 AM on Sunday, August 23

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney drew international attention earlier this year by warning that middle powers such as Canada must resist economic coercion

4:50 AM on Sunday, August 23

Pete Buttigieg was in South Carolina this weekend as he considers a second presidential campaign

4:19 AM on Sunday, August 23

Migrants have clashed with police at a detention center in northern Greece, cutting through a perimeter fence

2:23 AM on Sunday, August 23

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says actions by dismissed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov were misguided

11:21 PM on Saturday, August 22

Kazakhstan voted Sunday in a parliamentary election that is expected to further strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s grip on power in Central Asia’s largest nation

9:01 PM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have kicked off the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington

11:15 AM on Saturday, August 22

9:00 AM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump’s barrage of tariffs and threats of even more levies has quickly strained the United States’ longstanding relationship with Canada

8:40 AM on Saturday, August 22

Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker of Kansas has died

8:26 AM on Saturday, August 22

The United States' special envoy to Syria says Israel did not warn Washington ahead of striking an air base in northern Syria despite fears of escalation with the U.S. and NATO ally Turkey

8:19 AM on Saturday, August 22

President Donald Trump has urged a federal judge to reject the BBC’s request for the court’s help in securing testimony and documents from three members of the president’s family in response to his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster

8:07 AM on Saturday, August 22

Canada and the United States have long had one of the world's closest and most durable alliances

8:05 AM on Saturday, August 22

A federal judge in New York vacated a Trump administration policy that had suspended the processing of visas from 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration has deemed likely to require public assistance while living in the United States

2:23 AM on Saturday, August 22

The hard-line new leader of Iran’s top security body is threatening neighbors against joining new U.S. efforts to squeeze Tehran’s economy and saying the U.S. has increased global nuclear insecurity