Politics & Government News

6:07 PM on Monday, May 4

Two female opposition lawmakers in Mauritania have been sentenced to four years in prison for insulting the president and inciting violence

6:06 PM on Monday, May 4

President Donald Trump's administration is moving to block a lawsuit Minnesota's attorney general filed almost six years ago alleging that oil companies and a petroleum trade group deceived state residents about climate change

5:22 PM on Monday, May 4

Civil rights groups have filed a lawsuit to stop parts of a Texas law allowing police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border

1:21 PM on Monday, May 4

One of Costa Rica’s leading media outlets says that the United States has revoked the tourist visas of several executives on its board

1:19 PM on Monday, May 4

Mali’s junta leader and the country's president has assumed the duties of defense minister after the incumbent was killed in sweeping, coordinated attacks by separatist and jihadi forces that stunned the country

12:18 PM on Monday, May 4

President Donald Trump's administration supports a proposal to delay rules to protect a vanishing species of whale in favor of commercial fishing interests

12:17 PM on Monday, May 4

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is breathing on his own after being hospitalized with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator

12:13 PM on Monday, May 4

Afghanistan says Pakistan launched cross-border attacks into its territory, hitting civilian areas and leaving at least three people dead and 14 wounded

11:26 AM on Monday, May 4

Nigeria plans to repatriate 130 citizens from South Africa following a new wave of anti-immigration protests

11:07 AM on Monday, May 4

A Louisiana man who spent decades in prison for a wrongful conviction briefly began work overseeing the criminal court in New Orleans

10:45 AM on Monday, May 4

A federal judge is telling the U.S. government not to cut down more than 10 trees without first providing notice amid a legal dispute at a historic Washington golf course that President Donald Trump plans to renovate

10:05 AM on Monday, May 4

U.S. forces are guiding commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, where hundreds have been stuck since the Iran war began

9:58 AM on Monday, May 4

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome and Vatican City this week in a bid to ease rising tensions between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV over U.S. policies, particularly the Iran war

8:36 AM on Monday, May 4

8:34 AM on Monday, May 4

Guyana has argued at the International Court of Justice that 70% of its territory is at stake in a historic border dispute with Venezuela over a swath of jungle that is rich in resources

8:32 AM on Monday, May 4

7:33 AM on Monday, May 4

Austria has expelled three Russian Embassy employees suspected of espionage using antennas on diplomatic buildings

7:24 AM on Monday, May 4

Voters in a competitive central Michigan district will decide control of the state Senate on Tuesday in a special election to fill the seat last held by Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet, who's now a congresswoman

11:55 PM on Sunday, May 3

Nine Native American tribes are suing the federal government in a bid to stop exploratory drilling for graphite near a sacred site in the Black Hills of South Dakota

6:17 PM on Friday, May 1

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins this week attributed a multimillion-person drop in the number of participants receiving food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to the tamping down of fraud and an improved economy