Politics & Government News

1:01 PM on Friday, January 9

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that Argentina has repaid the funds it drew from a $20 billion credit line with the Trump administration

12:10 PM on Friday, January 9

The town of Marana, Arizona, has approved rezoning for a new data center, putting it in direct competition with Project Blue to become Southern Arizona's first large-scale data center

10:42 AM on Friday, January 9

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has said Friday she doesn't believe the United States would resort to military force to seize control of Greenland, urging a stronger role for NATO in the Arctic region to address U.S. security concerns

10:08 AM on Friday, January 9

10:01 AM on Friday, January 9

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation

9:14 AM on Friday, January 9

Deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump will make it more difficult for struggling communities to get help to fix sewer systems that put health and homes at risk

9:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump will make it more difficult for struggling communities to get help to fix sewer systems that put health and homes at risk

8:48 AM on Friday, January 9

President Donald Trump says American intervention in Venezuela will bring billions of dollars of investment in the country's infrastructure, a revival of its once-thriving oil industry and a new age of prosperity for the Latin American country

8:10 AM on Friday, January 9

A new U.N. rights report says that the presidential election in Uganda next week will be “marked by widespread repression and intimidation" against the opposition and others

7:55 AM on Friday, January 9

Chinese, Russian and Iranian warships have launched a week of naval drills with host South African off the coast of Cape Town as geopolitical tensions run high over the United States’ intervention in Venezuela

7:20 AM on Friday, January 9

Lebanon's government has signed a deal with an international consortium for gas exploration in an offshore area bordering Israel

6:42 AM on Friday, January 9

The United States will be providing significant aid to Thailand and Cambodia to ensure regional stability in the wake of the two nations fighting last year

6:10 AM on Friday, January 9

Pope Leo XIV has denounced how nations are increasingly using force to assert their dominion worldwide

5:47 AM on Friday, January 9

European Union officials have visited Syria for the first time to meet with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa

5:43 AM on Friday, January 9

Yemen's main separatist group, the Southern Transitional Council, is set to dismantle its institutions effective Friday

4:31 AM on Friday, January 9

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in Somalia’s capital to protest Israel’s recognition of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland

4:18 AM on Friday, January 9

Iran leader: Protesters 'ruining their own streets to make the president of another country happy,' referring to Trump

7:09 PM on Thursday, January 8

Federal immigration officers have shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon

5:11 PM on Thursday, January 8

Misrepresented and fabricated images spread widely on social media in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on Wednesday

12:31 PM on Thursday, January 8

Venezuela has released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists — both citizens and foreigners — nearly a week after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces to face drug-trafficking charges