Politics & Government News

4:28 AM on Monday, September 1

President Donald Trump has plastered taxes on products from almost every country on earth

1:53 AM on Monday, September 1

A ban on fish-shaped soy sauce containers has come into force in the state of South Australia

9:57 PM on Sunday, August 31

North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles

6:49 PM on Sunday, August 31

Ukrainian officials have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of former parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy

6:02 PM on Sunday, August 31

Mark Knoller, a longtime White House correspondent for CBS News, has died at 73

5:10 PM on Sunday, August 31

Charles Bierbauer, a former CNN White House correspondent and journalism dean, has died at 83

1:45 PM on Sunday, August 31

Judge blocks US government from removing group of Guatemalan children after some were loaded on planes at Texas airport

12:51 PM on Sunday, August 31

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration will soon expand immigration operations in Chicago

12:42 PM on Sunday, August 31

Indonesia's president has pledged to revoke lawmakers’ perks, including a $3,000 housing allowance, to ease public anger after protests left six dead

12:12 PM on Sunday, August 31

A U.S. judge has blocked the government from deporting Guatemalan children who had crossed the border without their families

9:52 AM on Sunday, August 31

Iran-backed Houthis have raided United Nations offices in Yemen's capital, detaining at least 11 U.N. employees

8:04 AM on Sunday, August 31

A new AP-NORC poll finds that while most Democrats disapprove of how Trump is handling the issue, a large majority, 68%, see crime as a “major problem” in large cities

5:07 AM on Sunday, August 31

President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire a member of the Federal Reserve’s governing board has raised alarms among economists and legal experts who see it as the biggest threat to the central bank’s independence in decades

2:39 AM on Sunday, August 31

A Filipino priest who protested Rodrigo Duterte’s drug crackdown is among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize

12:58 AM on Sunday, August 31

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have pledged to resolve their border differences and bolster cooperation ahead of the opening of a regional summit in Tianjin

12:42 AM on Sunday, August 31

Jude Law transforms into Vladimir Putin in “The Wizard of the Kremlin,” which premiered Sunday at the Venice Film Festival

12:02 AM on Sunday, August 31

President Donald Trump and House Republicans want to cut new funding for a housing grant that many rural areas rely on to help fund affordable housing

12:01 AM on Sunday, August 31

A Chinese philosophy student was deported from the United States after landing in Houston to study at the University of Houston

5:51 PM on Saturday, August 30

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has signed an executive order to counter the Trump administration's plan to send federal officers into the city

9:14 PM on Friday, August 29

Beijing is rolling out the red carpet for more than two dozen world leaders at two major events this week