Politics & Government News

1:56 PM on Tuesday, June 30

Police in Pakistan-administered Kashmir have arrested Shaukat Nawaz Mir, leader of the banned Joint Awami Action Committee

1:54 PM on Tuesday, June 30

Gadi Eisenkot, a former general, has emerged as a significant challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's upcoming election

1:42 PM on Tuesday, June 30

The Trump administration has frozen federal funding for New York's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

1:36 PM on Tuesday, June 30

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed an Israeli proposal to recognize the violence against Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide

1:35 PM on Tuesday, June 30

The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions and a new bank alert targeting the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Mexico’s most powerful criminal group

1:26 PM on Tuesday, June 30

1:06 PM on Tuesday, June 30

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the Justice Department aimed at compelling New Hampshire to provide data on its voters

12:23 PM on Tuesday, June 30

An international coalition of human rights lawyers has sued Ghana, accusing the government of violating deportees' rights under a deal with the Trump administration

12:15 PM on Tuesday, June 30

10:36 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

10:27 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Supreme Court has erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that's more than 50 years old

10:06 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Supreme Court is upholding state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people

9:19 AM on Tuesday, June 30

It’s been 123 days since the U.S. and Israel launched the Iran war, and the world again awaits another round of some sort of talks as President Donald Trump and Iranian officials disagree over what and even how they’ll communicate

9:01 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Andrew Carnegie Foundation has announced this year’s “Great Immigrants, Great Americans” honorees, including Citi CEO Jane Fraser and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Hernan Diaz and Cristina Rivera Garza

8:19 AM on Tuesday, June 30

U.S. envoys arrived in Qatar for meetings with mediators working to negotiate an end to the war with Iran

8:08 AM on Tuesday, June 30

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

5:50 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Animal welfare activists in Montenegro are alarmed by the issue of abandoned animals amid a heat wave in the Balkans

5:04 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Jerry Esters proudly displays the American flag each day on his Detroit home

4:29 AM on Tuesday, June 30

Britain's future military will focus on self-flying jets, uncrewed submarines and drones

12:09 AM on Tuesday, June 30

New Jersey Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. has revealed the reason for his four-month absence from the U.S. House