Politics & Government News

6:16 PM on Sunday, August 30

The U.S. Treasury Department is preventing certain journalists from covering a finance meeting among the world’s most powerful countries

5:39 PM on Sunday, August 30

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the Trump administration plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week in effort to clamp down on Iran transactions

3:59 PM on Sunday, August 30

Colombia's president says a key leader of the dissident factions of the defunct Revolutionary Armed Forces has been killed during a military operation

10:57 AM on Sunday, August 30

Members of the Polish special forces are taking part in an exercise that simulates moving through enemy lines and launching a drone strike on a key enemy location

7:46 AM on Sunday, August 30

Young Massachusetts voters agree that 80-year-old U.S. Sen. Ed Markey stumbled when asked during a debate how he uses artificial intelligence

7:16 AM on Sunday, August 30

At least eight people have died after a ferry carrying nearly 270 passengers and crew capsized off the coast of the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus

4:39 AM on Sunday, August 30

Iceland's voters have rejected a referendum to restart negotiations to join the European Union

12:47 AM on Sunday, August 30

Guinea-Bissau is voting in a referendum to decide on granting new presidential powers

6:06 PM on Saturday, August 29

President Donald Trump says he will attend the Presidents Cup matches next month near Chicago as the honorary chairman

6:02 PM on Saturday, August 29

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has apologized to the state's Jewish Democratic Caucus

3:33 PM on Saturday, August 29

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has responded to President Trump’s “Lake America” decree with a billboard declaring “Lake Ontario

1:17 PM on Saturday, August 29

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel and others in its quest to deport noncitizens who the government says have disrupted college campuses as they expressed their views

1:05 PM on Saturday, August 29

U.S. officials say British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the United Kingdom

9:55 AM on Saturday, August 29

UNICEF says nearly six children and seven women have been released by a gang in Haiti that had kidnapped more than 50 people after launching a deadly attack on a community near Port-au-Prince nearly a week ago

8:22 AM on Saturday, August 29

President Donald Trump and his allies are pressing hard about the perceived threats of voting by people who aren't U.S. citizens as the November election approach

7:44 AM on Saturday, August 29

Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing

12:51 AM on Saturday, August 29

In firing up a trade war with Canada, President Donald Trump turned to a 96-year-old statute so obscure that many trade lawyers didn’t even know it was still on the books

12:02 AM on Saturday, August 29

Voters in Iceland are deciding whether to resume negotiations to join the European Union

5:20 PM on Friday, August 28

The FBI is no longer treating an applicant’s prior encounters with prostitutes as an automatic bar against employment

4:21 PM on Friday, August 28

Immigration officials have arrested British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos in New Orleans