Politics & Government News

10:06 AM on Friday, May 1

A China policy giving Africa’s biggest economies tariff-free access to its market for the next two years has come into effect

10:01 AM on Friday, May 1

Prime Minister Gaston Browne has led the Antigua and Barbuda Labor Party to a fourth consecutive electoral victory

9:52 AM on Friday, May 1

President Donald Trump praised King Charles III after the monarch's state visit this week, which is being hailed in the U.K. as a diplomatic triumph

9:03 AM on Friday, May 1

Renewal wait times for the Obama-era program that allows people who were brought to the U.S. as children to temporarily remain in the country and work have increased dramatically in the past year

8:21 AM on Friday, May 1

8:09 AM on Friday, May 1

House Speaker Mike Johnson has lamented he would like to preside over a “normal Congress.”

7:32 AM on Friday, May 1

President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be recalibrating its centerpiece policy of mass deportations after a series of major immigration enforcement operations in American cities soured the public’s mood on it

6:48 AM on Friday, May 1

Taiwan has expressed concern hours after a call between China and the United States’ top diplomats in which Beijing stressed self-ruled Taiwan was the biggest risk in relations

1:00 AM on Friday, May 1

The long-awaited trade deal between the South American bloc Mercosur and the European Union is finally on, at least provisionally

Friday, May 1

The redrawn congressional district lines that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will soon sign into law are intended to help Republicans pick up as many as four U.S. House seats in November — a scenario that would cost some Democrats their seats

8:35 PM on Thursday, April 30

The Trump administration is arguing that the war in Iran has already ended because of the ceasefire that began in early April

7:24 PM on Thursday, April 30

The U.N. Security Council has voted to reduce the ceiling for the peacekeeping force in conflict-torn South Sudan to 12,000 troops, down from 17,000

5:26 PM on Thursday, April 30

Fourteen FEMA employees who signed a public letter criticizing the nation's disaster preparedness have been reinstated after eight months on paid leave

5:19 PM on Thursday, April 30

President Donald Trump has granted a key approval to a major new pipeline that would move oil from Canada into the central U.S. The three-foot-wide Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian border with Montana down through eastern Montana and Wyoming, where it would link up with another pipeline

2:50 PM on Thursday, April 30

Brazil’s Congress has voted to override a presidential veto and reduce former President Jair Bolsonaro’s 27-year prison sentence

1:16 PM on Thursday, April 30

President Donald Trump has signed a bill funding much of the Department of Homeland Security and ending the longest agency shutdown in history

10:39 AM on Thursday, April 30

Federal prosecutors have released a video showing the moment authorities say an armed man with guns and knives tried to storm the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in an attempt to kill President Donald Trump

10:16 AM on Thursday, April 30

Louisiana’s congressional primaries are not going forward as scheduled in May as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling

6:45 AM on Thursday, April 30

Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic will protect its nuclear and missile capabilities as a national asset

11:32 AM on Monday, April 13