Politics & Government News

1:00 PM on Saturday, June 20

12:40 PM on Saturday, June 20

President Donald Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism

12:22 PM on Saturday, June 20

A Spanish investigative judge has ruled that the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will face trial on charges of influence peddling and corruption

11:58 AM on Saturday, June 20

Russia has freed 24 Filipinos detained for months without charges in Siberia

10:46 AM on Saturday, June 20

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a state of emergency to empower the military to remove road blockades

9:06 AM on Saturday, June 20

President Donald Trump is lashing out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni once more

8:44 AM on Saturday, June 20

The Federal Reserve has for decades moved steadily from a remote, opaque government agency that shared little about what it did or why to a more transparent institution willing to explain how it makes decisions and what it thinks about the economy

8:04 AM on Saturday, June 20

The question hangs in the halls at the Capitol: Was the war with Iran worth it

7:39 AM on Saturday, June 20

Supporters of India’s viral Cockroach Janta Party have banged steel plates with spoons in a protest demanding the education minister's resignation

5:22 AM on Saturday, June 20

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has returned a state honor to Poland after the Polish president revoked it

1:01 AM on Saturday, June 20

Nigerians repatriated from South Africa following a series of anti-migrant marches and reported attacks on some foreign nationals are struggling to settle into a new life back home

10:02 PM on Friday, June 19

The Kennedy Center's management isn't committing to new shows or staff expansion, even as it considers options short of a full two-year closure that a federal judge blocked last month

6:56 PM on Friday, June 19

Observers are calling Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul on the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution while the grandson of former President Raúl Castro says in an interview that Cuba must seek to move its economy forward

5:36 PM on Friday, June 19

President Donald Trump has now endorsed both Republican candidates for governor in South Carolina

4:09 PM on Friday, June 19

President Donald Trump has unveiled the new Air Force One, a formerly Qatari-owned jumbo jet now converted into the official U.S. presidential aircraft

4:05 PM on Friday, June 19

African and Caribbean leaders in Ghana are urging former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations for the trafficking of enslaved Africans

1:19 PM on Friday, June 19

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama surprised the first 100 visitors to walk through the doors of Obama’s new presidential center, personally greeting them

8:07 AM on Friday, June 19

Italy's government has closed ranks to slam U.S. President Donald Trump over his claim that Premier Giorgia Meloni had “begged” for a photo with him during the recent G7 summit

3:10 AM on Friday, June 19

As people gathered to celebrate Juneteenth at events across the U.S., former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the first visitors to his presidential center

12:05 PM on Tuesday, June 2