Politics & Government News

12:50 PM on Tuesday, August 11

California cities and counties are struggling to meet state housing targets

12:44 PM on Tuesday, August 11

A U.N. agency reports that five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, around 2.4 million girls remain excluded from secondary education

12:18 PM on Tuesday, August 11

Turkey's parliament has approved a conditional pardon for thousands of Kurdish militants, aiming to advance peace efforts with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK

9:04 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Brazil's Supreme Court is set to decide cases that could reshape protections for the Amazon rainforest and Indigenous communities

8:33 AM on Tuesday, August 11

7:13 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A gunbattle between rebels and Nigerian security forces has left 10 police officers dead

5:22 AM on Tuesday, August 11

A Taiwanese court has sentenced a woman to seven years in prison for conspiring with Chinese officials to influence Taiwanese politics

4:58 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of defying U.S. presidents

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 11

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is running in a special election where his main opponent is a man dressed as a garbage can

12:02 AM on Tuesday, August 11

President Donald Trump likes to say he started his war with Iran after 50 years of economic pressure failed to stop its nuclear weapons ambitions

10:40 PM on Monday, August 10

The Washington Post reports President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month's NATO summit in Turkey on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat

9:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says he'll sue the Trump administration to get his security clearance restored

8:35 PM on Monday, August 10

Australians can for the first time reveal their sexual orientation and whether they identify as a gender that is not the one recorded at birth in the country's census on Tuesday

7:32 PM on Monday, August 10

Embattled Republican Rep. Max Miller is staying in the race for his Ohio congressional district

2:44 PM on Monday, August 10

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that calls for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots

1:10 PM on Monday, August 10

A Pentagon official has urged Asian allies to invest more in their defense to deter regional aggression

12:50 PM on Monday, August 10

“The Dukes of Hazzard” star Ben Jones has died at 84

6:48 AM on Monday, August 10

U.S. President Donald Trump is scoffing at Iran's demands that the U.S. pay for devastation caused by five months of war

12:04 AM on Monday, August 10

Progressive candidates for governor in Wisconsin and U.S. Senate in Minnesota are making their final pushes ahead of Tuesday’s election

12:03 AM on Monday, August 10

Count Binface, an intergalactic comedic candidate with a garbage can on his head, is at the center of the U.K.'s political universe