Politics & Government News

12:03 AM on Sunday, September 28

President Donald Trump’s consolidation of power and targeting of his political opponents bring back unnerving memories for those who have watched elected leaders undermine democracies elsewhere in the world

8:25 PM on Saturday, September 27

A man who was wrongfully deported from the United States to his native El Salvador has been moved from a Virginia detention center to a facility in Pennsylvania

7:43 PM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown

7:00 PM on Saturday, September 27

1:51 PM on Saturday, September 27

The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is only two pages and alleges he falsely testified to Congress in 2020 about authorizing someone to be an anonymous source in news stories

1:30 PM on Saturday, September 27

The health minister in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu says a stampede at a rally for a popular actor and politician has killed at least 36 people and injured 40 others

1:25 PM on Saturday, September 27

Health minister of India’s Tamil Nadu state says 36 people were killed and 40 injured at a political rally

12:23 PM on Saturday, September 27

Rudy Giuliani has reached a settlement with Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation suit over his baseless 2020 election-rigging claims

12:23 PM on Saturday, September 27

Russian foreign minister at UN: Any aggression against our country will be met with a 'decisive response'

12:12 PM on Saturday, September 27

Senate Democrats have struggled for months to counter President Donald Trump

11:52 AM on Saturday, September 27

Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered in rural Hungary at a country estate linked to alleged corruption involving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

11:11 AM on Saturday, September 27

The oil-rich central African nation of Gabon has voted in its first legislative and local elections since a 2023 military coup ended a 50-year-old political dynasty

10:41 AM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump says he will send troops to Portland, Oregon

9:38 AM on Saturday, September 27

Russia’s top diplomat is insisting to world leaders that Russia has no intention of attacking Europe

9:27 AM on Saturday, September 27

Tensions between the United States and Colombia have escalated with the State Department saying it was revoking the visa of Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro's visa

8:56 AM on Saturday, September 27

President Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court to uphold his birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily aren't American citizens

1:02 AM on Saturday, September 27

The United Nations has reimposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program

12:48 AM on Saturday, September 27

The people of Seychelles are voting in an election to choose a new leader and parliament

5:09 AM on Monday, September 22

The United Nations has reimposed nuclear sanctions on Iran, putting new pressure on Tehran’s ailing economy as tensions remain high in the wider Mideast over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip

5:04 AM on Monday, September 22

United Nations sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program have been reimposed