Politics & Government News

1:22 PM on Friday, September 26

Federal agents fired pepper balls and tear gas at protesters near an immigration enforcement building in suburban Chicago

1:06 PM on Friday, September 26

Rep. John Moolenaar has requested an urgent briefing from the White House after Trump supported a deal giving Americans a majority stake in TikTok

12:49 PM on Friday, September 26

12:36 PM on Friday, September 26

The Washington attorney who brokered book deals for Barack Obama, George W. Bush and dozens of other government leaders has died at age 79

12:32 PM on Friday, September 26

Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died

12:30 PM on Friday, September 26

Cuba announces the death of Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black Liberation Army militant sought by US since 1979

12:22 PM on Friday, September 26

Minnesota is grappling with a political deadlock over gun control after a church shooting in August left two children dead and 21 injured

12:16 PM on Friday, September 26

This week, addressing the United Nations, President Donald Trump made several false claims about climate change, including that it didn’t actually exist

12:14 PM on Friday, September 26

Russia and China are forcing the U.N. Security Council to vote on a resolution that would give Iran a six-month extension before sanctions related to its nuclear program are reimposed

11:59 AM on Friday, September 26

Chinese authorities have detained Zhang Yadi, a 22-year-old student, on suspicion of inciting separatism

11:49 AM on Friday, September 26

After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her homeland was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the alarming act of violence has ignited bitter racial and political rhetoric about crime victims and perpetrators in America

11:42 AM on Friday, September 26

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of turning to props and visual aids in his speeches to the U.N. But even by the Israeli leader’s elevated standards of showmanship, this year’s address took things to a new level

11:25 AM on Friday, September 26

For two weeks, Memphis has been bracing for an influx of National Guard troops after President Donald Trump announced his intention to deploy them to the city

9:57 AM on Friday, September 26

Moldova’s electoral commission implemented a court ruling on Friday barring a pro-Russian party that was part of a broader electoral bloc from participating in Sunday’s tense parliamentary election, which is beleaguered by widespread claims of Russian interference

8:56 AM on Friday, September 26

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with making a false statement and obstruction in a criminal case filed days after President Donald Trump appeared to urge his attorney general to prosecute him and other perceived political enemies

8:02 AM on Friday, September 26

The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank

12:05 AM on Friday, September 26

Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders that Israel “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza

12:01 AM on Friday, September 26

President Donald Trump’s unprecedented retribution campaign against his perceived political enemies has reached new heights as his Justice Department brings criminal charges against a longtime foe and he expands his efforts to classify certain liberal groups as “domestic terrorist organizations."

9:03 PM on Thursday, September 25

Former FBI Director James Comey might not be the only critic of President Donald Trump to face charges

11:59 AM on Tuesday, September 23