Politics & Government News

10:31 AM on Thursday, May 7

Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she has long had a condition called an essential tremor

10:28 AM on Thursday, May 7

A clean energy group says the Pentagon is holding up the development of more than 250 new onshore wind farms on private lands by failing to complete its national security reviews

10:09 AM on Thursday, May 7

The Trump administration plans to weaken some Biden-era limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water

9:10 AM on Thursday, May 7

8:29 AM on Thursday, May 7

History teachers across the U.S. are working to make the nation's founding documents relevant as the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence approaches

5:20 AM on Thursday, May 7

4:11 AM on Thursday, May 7

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is now the second longest-serving justice in history, overtaking someone who was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln

4:07 AM on Thursday, May 7

12:23 AM on Thursday, May 7

Kenya's political word of the moment is “goonism," used to describe gang-related political violence

11:23 PM on Wednesday, May 6

China is signaling that Taiwan will be a priority ahead of a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping next week

10:57 PM on Wednesday, May 6

The Vatican says the “need to work tirelessly in favor of peace” was discussed in talks with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio

10:42 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Paraguay’s President Santiago Peña has arrived in Taiwan for his first visit to the self-ruled island

9:07 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Three Western intelligence officials from different countries have told The Associated Press that a campaign of targeted killings they blame on Russia has ramped up since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine

9:05 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Tech leaders are betting on a former executive to take the lead in the California governor's race

7:57 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Southeast Asian leaders plan to issue a contingency plan that upholds international law, sovereignty and freedom of navigation in what could be seen as a veiled rebuke to the United States, Israel and Iran over the Middle East war which has impacted their region, according to a draft declaration seen by The Associated Press

5:34 PM on Wednesday, May 6

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says the Justice Department is working to remove immigration judges who are slow or not following the law

5:03 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A new report reveals European companies have taken a third of the Indian Ocean's tropical tuna catch

4:33 PM on Wednesday, May 6

A note Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he found after the financier’s first jail suicide attempt has been made public after it had been sealed and locked in a courthouse vault for nearly five years as part of an unrelated legal dispute

12:19 PM on Wednesday, May 6

In 24 hours, the Trump administration’s stance on the Iran war has pinballed from declarations that a tenuous ceasefire was holding and military operations were over to new threats of bombing the Islamic Republic

12:20 AM on Wednesday, May 6

The U.S. military fired on an Iranian oil tanker as President Donald Trump sought to pressure Tehran into reaching a deal to end the war