Politics & Government News

6:01 AM on Monday, August 17

Florida voters will select nominees Tuesday to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and to complete the remainder of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s unexpired U.S. Senate term

5:37 AM on Monday, August 17

Wyoming voters will choose nominees for an unusually high number of open-seat races in a state primary Tuesday

5:11 AM on Monday, August 17

Alaska voters will narrow down a long list of contenders for a competitive U.S. Senate seat that’s expected to play a pivotal role in determining which party will hold a majority in the chamber next year

4:15 AM on Monday, August 17

Four months after Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell resigned amid sexual assault allegations that torpedoed his campaign for California governor, his former Bay Area constituents will pick a replacement Tuesday to serve out the rest of his term

3:44 AM on Monday, August 17

South Korea has expressed hopes for resumption of diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea to ease animosities on the Korean Peninsula

3:00 AM on Monday, August 17

12:03 AM on Monday, August 17

The Trump administration says it is seeking to expand its lethal campaign of bombing boats off Latin America’s Caribbean and Pacific coasts onto land

11:57 PM on Sunday, August 16

The head of Myanmar’s military-backed government embarked on an official visit to Russia to hold talks with President Vladimir Putin

9:07 PM on Sunday, August 16

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is running for reelection in a new Florida district after Republicans redrew the congressional map

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

12:53 AM on Sunday, August 16

The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East has visited the long-deployed USS Lincoln in the Arabian Sea

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

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