Politics & Government News

3:22 PM on Saturday, June 27

Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic said Saturday he will resign his post within weeks, paving the way for early elections following youth-led protests that shook his tight grip on power

1:40 PM on Saturday, June 27

An official says gunmen have killed at least 15 people in a farming community in northwestern Nigeria

11:36 AM on Saturday, June 27

Tens of thousands are gathering in Hungary's capital for the 31st annual Budapest Pride

8:07 AM on Saturday, June 27

It's been six decades since the Voting Rights Act was enacted

6:59 AM on Saturday, June 27

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has struck a major industrial facility in the Russian city of Volgograd

5:36 AM on Saturday, June 27

Britain's government says it plans to open safe, legal routes for eligible refugees

3:33 AM on Saturday, June 27

Burkina Faso's military government has severed diplomatic ties with France, its former colonial ruler and key security partner

12:27 AM on Saturday, June 27

Andy Burnham has set himself apart from the man he expects to replace as British prime minister

12:06 AM on Saturday, June 27

An Alaska judge has ruled that a man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible to challenge the senator in the August primary

7:46 PM on Friday, June 26

A gay rights activist is suing the Defense Department to answer a simple question: Did Scouting America actually ban transgender members in a deal with the Pentagon

5:44 PM on Friday, June 26

A poll worker says two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s party primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis

5:42 PM on Friday, June 26

New Mexico's attorney general has opened a criminal investigation into claims that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration allowed hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to reach the streets

2:10 PM on Friday, June 26

Fear is ricocheting through Haitian communities across the United States after the Supreme Court decided to allow the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters

1:08 PM on Friday, June 26

OpenAI has restricted the release of its new AI model at the request of President Donald Trump's administration

10:29 AM on Friday, June 26

Former national security adviser John Bolton is pleading guilty to illegally retaining classified information

9:01 AM on Friday, June 26

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for a national “billionaires' tax” and suggests the U.S. government should own a stake in AI companies

8:13 AM on Friday, June 26

The United States has struck Iran in response to a drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz

6:22 AM on Friday, June 26

America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, and the nation's capital is undergoing significant changes under President Donald Trump

12:29 AM on Friday, June 26

Venezuelans took the search for missing loved ones into their own hands in the aftermath of back-to-back earthquakes

11:31 AM on Monday, June 8