Politics & Government News

6:04 AM on Sunday, June 28

The White House has soured on Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon

6:00 AM on Sunday, June 28

Uganda's military chief and son of President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the shutdown of a major news organization

11:58 PM on Saturday, June 27

A new Mississippi law authorizes the state's top law enforcement agency to compile a list of immigrants illegally living in the state

8:01 PM on Saturday, June 27

Argentine President Javier Milei’s Cabinet chief and close ally, Manuel Adorni, has resigned following a corruption scandal that has roiled the government, undermining its flagship campaign pledge to stamp out endemic graft in the political elite

4:00 PM on Saturday, June 27

President Donald Trump says he is nominating Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement

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

9:27 AM on Saturday, June 27

A Chinese political dissident who fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada

9:07 AM on Saturday, June 27

The Great American State Fair has kicked off on the National Mall in Washington

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

12:02 AM on Saturday, June 27

U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow has won Louisiana’s Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate

10:29 AM on Friday, June 26

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

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