Politics & Government News

10:08 AM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump’s deals with drugmakers requiring many of their U.S. prescription prices to drop could save the economy $529 billion over the next decade

10:02 AM on Tuesday, May 5

President Donald Trump’s deals with drugmakers requiring many of their U.S. prescription prices to drop could save the economy $529 billion over the next decade

8:39 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Zambia accuses the U.S. of linking a $2 billion health assistance deal to access to its rich mineral resources

8:22 AM on Tuesday, May 5

7:26 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Thailand’s government has ended a 2001 agreement with Cambodia meant to resolve overlapping maritime claims

3:54 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Japanese and Philippine defense chiefs have renewed alarm over what they say is China’s intensifying coercive actions in disputed waters and have agreed to start talks on a weapons transfer pact that will allow Tokyo to provide used destroyers to Manila’s navy

1:03 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Armenia is hosting the first European Union summit in Yerevan

12:35 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said state visits are a basic right of governments after returning from a three-day trip to Eswatini that Taiwan's government says China tried to block

12:03 AM on Tuesday, May 5

Recent court rulings on abortion pill access have reignited a contentious political issue in a midterm year

11:35 PM on Monday, May 4

11:25 PM on Monday, May 4

The U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women

11:11 PM on Monday, May 4

A federal appeals court panel is expressing skepticism over the Trump administration indefinitely appointing top federal prosecutors without the nominees going before the U.S. Senate for approval

8:50 PM on Monday, May 4

California is investigating one of the Trump administration’s deals to end an offshore wind project

4:36 PM on Monday, May 4

Alberta separatists have submitted nearly 302,000 signatures to trigger a referendum on leaving Canada

12:11 PM on Monday, May 4

A branch of the Catholic church has expressed concern over reports that Israel is demolishing civilian and religious buildings in southern Lebanon

10:17 AM on Monday, May 4

President Javier Milei of Argentina has restored press access to his government headquarters

6:32 AM on Monday, May 4

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has wrested control of the opposition stronghold of West Bengal in a key state election

2:59 AM on Monday, May 4

European leaders say President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany is just the latest signal that Europe must take more responsibility for its security

2:38 AM on Monday, May 4

The U.S. military says it fired on Iranian forces and sank six small boats as it moved to reopen the Strait of Hormuz

12:02 AM on Monday, May 4

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to shrink America’s military deployment in Germany is putting a new spotlight on the U.S. military presence in Europe