Politics & Government News

9:02 PM on Tuesday, August 11

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he survived a leadership vote among his own party’s lawmakers

6:20 PM on Tuesday, August 11

President Donald Trump's secretive overseas trip out of Turkey in July has raised eyebrows because his advisers went to extraordinary lengths to conceal his whereabouts from the public

6:01 PM on Tuesday, August 11

5:54 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Medicaid said it won't pay for gender-affirming surgeries or hormones for transgender minors

5:52 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A federal judge has agreed to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to have the U.S. Postal Service play a central role in deciding who can receive a mail ballot

5:49 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Civil rights groups and researchers pleaded at a public hearing Tuesday for a federal agency to continue its annual collection of workplace demographic data

1:46 PM on Tuesday, August 11

While issuing an executive order urging states to revise childhood vaccine recommendations, President Donald Trump and others in his administration repeated several false claims about those vaccines, as well as their relationship to autism

12:50 PM on Tuesday, August 11

California cities and counties are struggling to meet state housing targets

12:44 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A U.N. agency reports that five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, around 2.4 million girls remain excluded from secondary education

12:18 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Turkey's parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants, aiming to advance peace efforts with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK

10:59 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Russia has released an American military veteran, allowing his return to the U.S. after four years of what his family and U.S. officials allege was wrongful incarceration and abusive treatment that left him near death

9:38 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Primary elections are taking place in six U.S. states — Alabama, Connecticut, Minnesota, South Carolina, Vermont and Wisconsin

8:06 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Iran is rejecting comments by President Donald Trump, who said that since Iran is seeking compensation as part of any peace talks, he’ll demand the same

8:00 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has selected a Republican-turned-independent as her running mate in a tough reelection campaign

5:05 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Authorities in Yemen say at least six people were killed when Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired missiles on a vessel in the Bab el-Mandeb strait

12:08 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Democrats in two Alabama congressional districts that were redrawn by Republicans after a Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act have won their special primary elections as they prepare for what are expected to be fierce contests for the Deep South seats in the fall

12:07 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Connecticut Democrats face a choice between U.S. Rep. John Larson and younger challengers for the 1st Congressional District

12:04 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman have advanced to a runoff in South Carolina’s special Republican primary to replace the late Lindsey Graham in the Senate

12:01 AM on Tuesday, August 11

The Democratic Party's internal battle is heating up in Minnesota

Tuesday, August 11

A democratic socialist is trying to rise above the governor’s endorsed candidate in Wisconsin’s chaotic primary race for governor