Politics & Government News

2:37 PM on Sunday, August 16

President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to scale back annual joint military exercises with South Korea

12:05 PM on Sunday, August 16

Moroccan security forces have arrested hundreds of migrants trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta by land and sea

10:39 AM on Sunday, August 16

U.S. negotiator Jared Kushner has held a rare meeting with the Hamas chief in Egypt in a push to make progress on the stalled Gaza ceasefire

10:02 AM on Sunday, August 16

Brazil's presidential candidates have kicked off their campaigns ahead of what is expected to be tight election in October

8:05 AM on Sunday, August 16

5:59 AM on Sunday, August 16

Cambodian artist Bou Meng, one of only seven people known to have survived a notorious Khmer Rouge torture center, has died at 85

4:42 AM on Sunday, August 16

The national redistricting competition between the parties means California's conservative voters are going through the same thing as Democratic voters in Republican strongholds

4:38 AM on Sunday, August 16

Benjamin Franklin's son William was buried in London following his death in 1813, more than three decades after he was forced to leave America

9:04 PM on Saturday, August 15

A piece of Miami architectural history has sat largely abandoned and covered in graffiti for more than three decades

11:49 AM on Saturday, August 15

Democrats have approved dueling messages on immigration enforcement, disagreeing on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed

6:19 AM on Saturday, August 15

Liechtenstein’s royal house says the tiny country’s rules of succession will be changed so that a woman could in the future inherit the principality’s throne

5:37 AM on Saturday, August 15

President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of the nation’s aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships

5:18 AM on Saturday, August 15

Democratic voters are turning out for this year’s primaries at levels not seen in more than 20 years

4:52 AM on Saturday, August 15

President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk

2:38 AM on Saturday, August 15

Taliban rulers have celebrated the fifth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan

1:10 AM on Saturday, August 15

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says India’s decades-long Maoist insurgency is nearing its end but warns the country now faces a new battle against people who align with the movement’s ideology

9:01 PM on Friday, August 14

Democrats seeking the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 will need to prove themselves early on in states where Black and Latino voters and union members are key supporters

9:00 PM on Friday, August 14

A dayslong standoff in the occupied West Bank points to Israel's reluctance to rein in settler violence against Palestinians

3:54 PM on Friday, August 14

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday

10:52 AM on Friday, August 14

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his government has triggered an economic reciprocity law against U.S. tariffs