Politics & Government News

5:18 AM on Thursday, August 27

Tanzania’s governing party has expelled the vice president who resigned this week

3:08 AM on Thursday, August 27

The Iran war has reshaped the rapidly approaching midterm elections

12:22 AM on Thursday, August 27

Authorities say a driver has deliberately rammed a car into a group of people in northern France, killing two people and injuring nine others

11:12 PM on Wednesday, August 26

China’s foreign minister says his country and the United States need to overcome obstacles between the nations ahead of an expected September summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping

9:13 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Michigan Democrats want to focus on President Donald Trump and the economy heading into November

9:04 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Hours after Lindsey Graham's funeral last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told U.S. lawmakers his country needed the Russia sanctions bill they were considering, as a morale booster in the long war

8:54 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been charged with failing to declare his assets

4:22 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook says the Trump administration has no legal basis to remove her from the central bank’s governing board

3:50 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Brazil’s government said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in a federal court against Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, seeking damages of 500 million reais (about $97 million) for the company’s alleged failure in protecting children online

3:06 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A federal judge has rejected the Justice Department’s request to dismiss Trump ally Steve Bannon’s criminal conviction for refusing to testify before the congressional committee that investigated a mob’s Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol

3:05 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A former U.S. Marine arrested at President Donald Trump's Los Angeles-area golf course had his criminal charges suspended

3:01 PM on Wednesday, August 26

The Trump administration has trained much of its immigration crackdown on people who entered the United States illegally from Mexico and elsewhere, but it is intensifying another battle, this time with people who come legally

2:51 PM on Wednesday, August 26

A man who is serving time in a federal prison in New York has advanced from the primary for Alaska’s lone House seat

1:07 PM on Wednesday, August 26

New Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh has brought sharp change in how the central bank communicates by saying much less than his predecessors about the economy and inflation

12:07 PM on Wednesday, August 26

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will address the European Parliament next month in a high-profile visit that underscores Canada’s push to deepen ties with Europe

11:45 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Bobby Charles, the Republican nominee for governor in Maine, has told supporters that he plans to ask a top Homeland Security official to send ICE agents and U.S. Marshals to polling places in Maine before the midterm elections

10:55 AM on Wednesday, August 26

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been seen on video cuddling a 3-month-old American pit bull terrier named Freya

10:37 AM on Wednesday, August 26

President Donald Trump says the United States doesn't need Canada

9:31 AM on Wednesday, August 26

A Maryland court has ruled that a redistricting amendment cannot go on the November ballot

11:15 PM on Tuesday, August 25

The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is set to make a temporary stop in Thailand on its way home after an grueling deployment in the Middle East