Politics & Government News

3:30 PM on Sunday, October 5

Protesters both for and against Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa have rallied in the capital Quito

2:36 PM on Sunday, October 5

Here’s a question submitted by an Associated Press reader: Who gets paid during a federal shutdown

2:35 PM on Sunday, October 5

France's new prime minister has named a government, bringing back former finance minister Bruno Le Maire as defense minister

11:35 AM on Sunday, October 5

Somali government forces have ended a six-hour siege by militants at a major prison near the president’s office in Mogadishu

11:12 AM on Sunday, October 5

Washington lawmakers remain at a standstill over reopening the government, showing few signs of progress as President Donald Trump says layoffs are “taking place right now.”

9:51 AM on Sunday, October 5

Syria has held its first parliamentary elections since Bashar Assad was ousted nearly a year ago

7:29 AM on Sunday, October 5

President Donald Trump is marking the Navy's 250th anniversary by joining a celebration at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia

7:24 AM on Sunday, October 5

The National Park Service under President Donald Trump is looking to reshape what it tells Americans about their history

7:14 AM on Sunday, October 5

Political leaders in Washington are spending much of their energy these days blaming the other party for what could be a significant government shutdown

6:36 AM on Sunday, October 5

Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace late Saturday, forcing the shutdown of Vilnius Airport

5:20 AM on Sunday, October 5

4:40 AM on Sunday, October 5

At least five people were killed after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight in a major attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure

1:36 AM on Sunday, October 5

Severe rainfall in Nepal has triggered landslides, lightning strikes, and flooding, killing at least 44 people on Sunday

7:47 PM on Saturday, October 4

A federal judge in Oregon has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland

6:17 PM on Saturday, October 4

Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general has been widely condemned for text messages from 2022 that revealed him suggesting that a prominent Republican get “two bullets to the head.”

3:11 PM on Saturday, October 4

President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 300 National Guard members to Chicago, where on the same day Border Patrol agents shot and injured a woman they said tried to run them over

10:37 AM on Saturday, October 4

Thousands have gathered in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival

2:38 AM on Saturday, October 4

In a country that ranks poorly internationally for gender equality, the new president of Japan’s long-governing Liberal Democrats is one of the most conservative members of the male-dominated party seen as an obstacle to women’s advancement

6:05 PM on Friday, October 3

President Donald Trump is making plans for a significant aid package for U.S. soybean farmers

1:15 AM on Thursday, October 2

Syria is holding parliamentary elections for the first time since its autocratic former president, Bashar Assad, was unseated in December