Politics & Government News

6:04 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities

5:33 AM on Tuesday, August 11

4:13 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead

2:22 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A Taiwanese court has sentenced a woman to seven years in prison for conspiring with Chinese officials to influence Taiwanese politics

1:58 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of defying U.S. presidents

9:02 PM on Monday, August 10

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is running in a special election where his main opponent is a man dressed as a garbage can

6:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he'll sue the Trump administration to get his security clearance restored

5:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Australians can for the first time reveal their sexual orientation and whether they identify as a gender that is not the one recorded at birth in the country's census on Tuesday

4:32 PM on Monday, August 10

Embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in the race for his Ohio congressional district

11:55 AM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, has been sworn in as attorney general after a bruising confirmation fight that exposed bipartisan concerns about the Justice Department’s direction under the Republican president

11:40 AM on Monday, August 10

10:10 AM on Monday, August 10

A Pentagon official has urged Asian allies to invest more in their defense to deter regional aggression

9:50 AM on Monday, August 10

“The Dukes of Hazzard” star Ben Jones has died at 84

5:11 AM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that certain shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits

4:08 AM on Monday, August 10

Washington residents and officials see President Donald Trump’s extended National Guard deployment as an attempt to restrict the heavily Democratic city’s autonomy

3:48 AM on Monday, August 10

U.S. President Donald Trump is scoffing at Iran's demands that the U.S. pay for devastation caused by five months of war

1:52 AM on Monday, August 10

Turkey’s parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants

12:18 AM on Monday, August 10

Voters have gone to the polls in the final phase of elections for the legislative assembly in Pakistan-administered Kashmir

9:04 PM on Sunday, August 9

Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election

9:03 PM on Sunday, August 9

Count Binface, an intergalactic comedic candidate with a garbage can on his head, is at the center of the U.K.'s political universe